“…a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing” – William Shakespeare
The Global Warming Summit in Copenhagen ended with a day in which Chinese Prime Minister Wen snubbed President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Obama then crashed a meeting between the leaders of China, India, Brazil and South Africa. He tried to play the savior of the planet by announcing a non-binding agreement and left before a final vote because of – I am not making this up – an approaching record snow storm in Washington. Oh, and Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez announced that Barack Obama is the devil, an honor he previously bestowed on George W. Bush.
No comedian could make this up. The only thing missing was Al Gore reciting poetry somewhere in the background.
The British paper The Independent reports:
“At an emergency meeting convened at the Bella Center this morning, Barack Obama and Gordon Brown assembled 26 heads of state in an attempt to revive a deal. But China’s Premier Wen Jiabao did not attend and was replaced by vice foreign minister He Yafei.
This afternoon, the US president and his secretary of state Hillary Clinton called another meeting with China, but were snubbed again when only three low-level Chinese delegates arrived.
According to a high level source, the US president clearly regarded Premier Wen’s absence as a major diplomatic insult, and snapped: ‘It would be nice to negotiate with somebody who can make political decisions.’”
ABC’s Jack Tapper continues the story:
Officials say President Obama was frustrated. The conference was in complete chaos.
At about 730 pm Denmark time – the president was supposed to have left an hour before — he learned that Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, with whom he was supposed to meet, was meeting with the leaders of India, South Africa, and Brazil – the main players holding up any sort of political agreement.
The president heard about this and said he wanted to go to the meeting.
“Four against one,” an official said to the president.
“No problem,” he replied.
A senior administration official says the president “barged into the meeting,” where he joined China’s Wen, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma.
The reporters’ pool note from that time said that President Obama walked into the room and called out from the door, “Mr. Premier, are you ready to see me? Are you ready?”
They talked for roughly 45 minutes and emerged with a non-binding political accord.
Hugo Chavez seems to have a problem with smelling sulfur when he speaks at the same location as a US President. Here his Chavez in Copenhagen today:
Three years ago at the United Nations Chavez had similar words for President George W. Bush:
When will President Obama realize that, as President of the United States, he too is the target of Anti-American hatred? Going around the world apologizing for the “evils” committed by the United States prior to January 20, 2009 just makes him and America look weak and emboldens America’s enemies.
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