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Saudi Arabia snubs President Obama at the airport
Hot Air ^ | April 20, 2016 | BY JOHN SEXTON

Posted on 04/20/2016 2:03:57 PM PDT by Hojczyk

CNN is reporting that Saudi Arabia appears to have snubbed President Obama when he arrived in Riyadh for his farewell tour. It is customary for a U.S. president to be greeted by a high-ranking government official. In Saudi Arabia that would be a high-ranking member of the royal family, perhaps the king himself or the crown prince. Today, Obama was greeted by the governor of Riyadh. CNN reports:

When Obama touched down in Riyadh shortly after 1 p.m. local time, there were no kisses with the kingdom’s ruler as President George W. Bush once exchanged. The Saudi government dispatched the governor of Riyadh rather than a senior-level royal to shake Obama’s hand, a departure from the scene at the airport earlier in the day when King Salman was shown on state television greeting the leaders of other Gulf nations on the tarmac.

Social media users quickly termed the reception, which was not carried live on state TV, a snub and a sign that a relationship long lubricated by barrels of oil is now facing deep questions on both sides. Reporter Nic Robertson says the greeting was very different from the one President George W. Bush received when he made a similar farewell tour at the end of his presidency

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: obama; saudiarabia
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To: dp0622
did he bow anyway?

Or, perhaps, crawl on his hands and knees under the King's Robe? Where is the video???

21 posted on 04/20/2016 2:27:06 PM PDT by ExSES (the "bottom-line")
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To: Hojczyk

Even so they showed him more respect than he has earned.


22 posted on 04/20/2016 2:27:36 PM PDT by SparkyBass
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To: ExSES

lol

wouldn’t be the first time he’s crawled to a man on his hands and knees


23 posted on 04/20/2016 2:29:04 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Hojczyk

“When Obama touched down in Riyadh shortly after 1 p.m. local time, there were no kisses with the kingdom’s ruler as President George W. Bush once exchanged.”

Good.


24 posted on 04/20/2016 2:29:30 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: gaijin
I hadn't seen this picture before.

What excuse could they have pulled to get the girls out of school to accompany them to Cuba?

Yet another socialist wet dream.

25 posted on 04/20/2016 2:33:17 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: Hojczyk

Well, for once it looks like Obama is doing something right. Anything that gets the Saudi’s stamp of approval is usually because of an evil reason.

Maybe the desert goons are trying to buy points with the next admin or they are pissed about Iran.

I am hoping under Trump that those murdurous desert goons get some serious blowback from all that they have done.


26 posted on 04/20/2016 2:40:31 PM PDT by WMarshal (Trump 2016)
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To: Hojczyk

Maybe if he bows twice ad deeply he can be greeted by the kingdom’s dogcatcher next time?


27 posted on 04/20/2016 2:46:42 PM PDT by null and void ("when authority began inspiring contempt, it had stopped being authority" ~ H. Beam Piper)
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To: Hojczyk

This just can’t be true. Obama was going to unite the world. Every leader throughout the globe was going to respect America again and was going to just LOVE him.

His anointment/presidency was going to change everything! Well...come to think of it.... it kinda did. For the worse.


28 posted on 04/20/2016 2:48:37 PM PDT by XenaLee (The only good commie is a dead commie)
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To: lafroste

He gets NO respect.


29 posted on 04/20/2016 2:50:57 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Get Ready)
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To: usflagwaver

Yes indeed. The world is telling The One something every time he goes abroad.


30 posted on 04/20/2016 2:57:38 PM PDT by cld51860 (Volo pro veritas)
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To: Hojczyk

wow, that really is a snub


31 posted on 04/20/2016 2:59:52 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: Hojczyk

The foreign governments know what the US has to put up with. He is low life in their book.


32 posted on 04/20/2016 2:59:56 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: Hojczyk

LOL! Did he apologize to the runway?


33 posted on 04/20/2016 3:04:25 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: Hojczyk

At least CNN is saying this, maybe they were surprised Obama wasn’t treated like a native son being welcomed home. Even though we all know the divide (sunni and shiite)

You wouldn’t hear a word of this from the normal alphabet networks.


34 posted on 04/20/2016 3:10:46 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: gaijin

WTH? The Mooch even WALKS like a wookie!


35 posted on 04/20/2016 3:16:56 PM PDT by 60Gunner (The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato)
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To: gaijin
NO royals..! Nice outfit, but he's just da Guv.


36 posted on 04/20/2016 3:24:30 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Hojczyk

That ought to make for an interesting “whatever” summit. Just imagine that they seat obozo at a different table from the more important leaders - R A C I S M?? Would they dare? Of course, they would.


37 posted on 04/20/2016 3:26:19 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Hojczyk

Obama is an embarrassment and an absolute light-weight internationally, and both our enemies and our allies know it and are starting to treat him accordingly.


38 posted on 04/20/2016 3:31:37 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Semper Fidelis - Molon Labe - Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Hojczyk

No ONE.. including the Saudi’s likes the A$$hole-in-Chief.


39 posted on 04/20/2016 3:38:26 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: Hojczyk

They don’t have to pretend they like or respect him any longer. He’s done. His usefulness has passed.


40 posted on 04/20/2016 3:41:29 PM PDT by JudyinCanada
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