President Obama has decided not to attend a United States-European Union summit scheduled for Madrid in May, and European Union officials found out about the decision through the press late on Monday, senior European officials said Tuesday morning.REPEAT: European Union officials found out about the decision through the press
... American officials said that Mr. Obama was underwhelmed by the previous major U.S.-E.U. summit meeting, last June in Prague, and European Union officials said that the President even skipped a leaders’ lunch at the smaller E.U.-U.S. meeting in Washington last November, sending Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. instead, something they said that President Bush would never have done.
REPEAT: European Union officials found out about the decision through the press
U.S. Move to Skip Europe Meeting Seen as a Slight
By STEVEN ERLANGEREuropean Union officials found out about the decision through news reports on Monday.
THIS SLIGHT IS EXTRAORDINARY DISRESPECT. OBAMA DOESN'T REALLY CARE ABOUT EUROPE - OR THE WEST.
HE WENT THERE TO GET HIS PRIZE AND TO BEG FOR THE CHICAGO OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - BUT CARES NOT A WHIT FOR THE CORE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE USA AND THE EU.
OBAMA: CORRUPT INCOMPETENT ANTI-WEST LEFTIST.
I don't much care about the relationship between the US and the EU, because I don't think the EU is going to be around for long.
ReplyDeleteThat being said, I do care about the relationship between the US and Europe. Thus, I believe it would be important for Obama to be part of meetings at which Europe strategizes, even if it is an EU meeting.