Obama: 0 for Copenhagen - A Complete Embarrassment

O's 2nd trip to Copenhagen ended up just like the 1st one (olympics) - a complete failure.

How many US Presidents can make a high profile international trip and get dissed by Hugo Chavez, Robert Mugabe, Greenpeace, and the Chinese in the process ? And that's before breakfast !

The more we see of Obama, the more it is clear that this guy is not only grounded in radical beliefs, but his "leadership" skills, especially in international relationships, are non-existent.

How much embarrassment must we endure from this man ?

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/obama_does_it_again_xcbUOFFaHFxWRx2QITjBwJ

Today's NY Post editorial writes:

Copenhagen : what the hell was the point?

One would think that Obama had taken a lesson from his last trip to Copenhagen -- when he thought his presence alone would win the 2016 Olympic games for Chicago.

That is, that he would have learned that it is a mistake to publicly commit presidential prestige to an outcome that isn't locked up in advance.

Obviously, not.

So much for two years of work and a supposedly broad international consensus that was to make the Copenhagen conference little more than a formality.

Clearly, yesterday was about squabbling over how much money we'll borrow from the Chinese so that we can give it right back to Beijing and other Third World countries in exchange for their promise to . . . well, that was never clear.

And twice yesterday, Obama was kept waiting in public by China's premier.

This is scary stuff.

Obviously, the rest of the world has taken measure of Barack Obama -- and decided he's a pushover.

On the merits, not unfairly.

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Before I post more links to some great articles, watch Neil Cavuto ... interview w/ man in Polar Bear suit looking for Phil Jones and confronting Al Gore.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cfxxt5TwQg


I mean, Hugo Chavez gives a speech to this socialist statist gathering in Copenhagen condemning capitalism and praising socialism ... and gets a STANDING OVATION.

This is where Obama had to drop everything to go ? (of course he did, b/c he is simpatico w/ them).

Yet, even Chavez dissed Obama in Copenhagen (he said he "smelled sulfur" after Obama's speech -- reminiscent of when he called Bush el Diablo at the UN). And so did Greenpeace !

PRICELESS ARTICLE FROM JONAH GOLDBERG: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/wackos_pollute_the_eco_debate_bfMN07qTS6UVqTQUapwnoM

snippets:

As the Copenhagen climate summit comes to a close, it seems fair to say that rarely has a gathering of so many doing so little gotten so much attention.

But Copenhagen does have its uses.

For starters, it reminds us that environmentalism continues to be a cover for uglier agendas. Bolivian President Evo Morales was interviewed by al-Jazeera television while in Copenhagen. "The principal obstacle to combating climate change is capitalism," he explained.

"Until we put an end to capitalism, it will continue to be a big obstacle for life and humanity."

Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe proclaimed in a speech: "When these capitalist gods of carbon burp and belch their dangerous emissions, it's we, the lesser mortals of the developing sphere, who gasp and sink and eventually die."

Right. That is, unless Mugabe kills them first.

The big name in the anti-capitalism club was, of course, Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan national-socialist strongman.

In a typical stemwinder, he belched: "Capitalism is a destructive model that is eradicating life, that threatens to put a definitive end to the human species."

I don't know how to say "chutzpah" in Spanish, but you've got to hand it to the leader of the world's No. 5 supplier of oil for bemoaning the system that keeps his regime afloat by buying his product.


And then there is Obama, who got repeatedly dissed by Chinese leader Wen Jiabao.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/obama_praises_NuPTfoiIjqtEu92UmDiwaP

The headline to this is "Copenhagen talks end w/ dud of a deal; Obama delusional"

Obama may become known as "the man who killed Copenhagen," said Greenpeace US head Phil Radford, one of many activists to rap the president for the flimsy agreement with India, South Africa, Brazil and China, which thwarted the president throughout the conference.


[Copenhagen] was roundly blasted as a farce from all quarters.

"The president has wrecked the UN and he's wrecked the possibility of a tough plan to control global warming," said Bill McKibbon of the progressive group 350.org. "It may get Obama a reputation as a tough American leader, but it's at the expense of everything progressives have held dear."

Friends of the Earth tore into the pact as well. "Climate negotiations in Copenhagen have yielded a sham agreement with no real requirements for any countries," the group said in a statement. "This is not a strong deal or a just one -- it isn't even a real one.

Obama and his team were prepared to give up hope for a broad deal after hearing that leaders of India, Brazil and other key nations -- along with much of the entire Chinese delegation -- had already left for the airport.

But that wasn't the case.

Instead, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao insultingly skipped a high-level meeting in the morning, leaving Obama and other world leaders negotiating with a lower-level government official.

Wen later attend a meeting with President Lula de Silva of Brazil as well as the leaders of India and South Africa. Obama decided he wanted to go, and was forced to barge into the meeting.

"Mr. Premier, are you ready to see me? Are you ready?" the exasperated Obama inquired loudly from the conference-room door, in front of the press and other world leaders who had already gathered.

"We can't get into the room to look at it," explained one of the advance officials. "They're all having a meeting."

There wasn't even a seat for Obama.

"The president walks in and by the time I finally push through I hear the president say, 'There aren't any seats,' " explained one of the officials. "And the president says, 'No, no, don't worry, I'm going to go sit by my friend Lula,' and says, 'Hey, Lula,' " the advance official said.
Obama walked over, moved a chair beside the Brazilian leader and took a seat.

He later tried to put a positive spin on the meeting, saying a "meaningful and unprecedented breakthrough" had been reached