Move over, Britain: Obama alienates another ally »
Posted By pc25 8 months, 2 weeks ago in NewsSilva aides said the trip was pushed forward from Tuesday because of the St. Patrick's Day holiday - making Latin America once again look like an afterthought. Then, the White House announcement misspelled his name as "Luis Ignacio" and put "Lula" - a nickname that decades ago became a legal part of the Brazilian leader's name - in quotes.
I'm sure he'll feel better when he gets his DVDs.
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pc258 months, 2 weeks ago
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http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/...
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Brazil leader takes regional clout to White House
RIO DE JANEIRO -- His meet and greet with the U.S. president was bumped to Saturday, and when the White House announced his official visit, they misspelled his name.
But when Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva becomes the first Latin American leader to sit down with President Barack Obama this weekend, he brings undisputed clout.
Silva runs the world's fifth-most-populous nation and ninth-largest economy and has close ties with leaders across the political spectrum. He's been asked to lobby Obama for free trade on behalf of conservatives in Colombia and for dropping the U.S. embargo against communist Cuba. Even Hugo Chavez has asked Silva to carry an olive branch to the new administration.
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NoWayMan8 months, 2 weeks ago
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um, Lula's last name is DA SILVA, not SILVA.
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so, who just offended Lula?
you simply have no idea about brasilians, how they use their names or their attitudes.
btw, Lula was NOT offended by the quote marks around his name. and you can't find me a statement from him or his aides that say he was, can you? (and if some writer from the American Thinker -whatever that is - tries to infer it, it doesn't make it true)
and if that wasn't enough...
Lula's Minister of Strategic Affairs, Roberto Mangabeira Unger, was Obama's professor at Harvard. In a recent interview, Unger said that he regards Obama as a friend and respects what the calls his moral and intellectual qualities.
SO...time to put on your little helmet and get in the little yellow bus where you belong.
trust me, its for your own protection.
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pc258 months, 2 weeks ago
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http://hotair.com/archives/2009/03/13/move-over-br...
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Via Foreign Policy, wondering if anyone’s told The One yet that the State Department has an office of protocol for this sort of thing. Maybe he knows and just assumes that if they can’t even do translations anymore, they can’t be trusted with something like this. Or maybe, as with Treasury, he simply forgot to staff the office.
When you’re the world’s biggest celebrity, you don’t have to fret over diplomatic niceties. -
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jovial8 months, 2 weeks ago
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pc258 months, 2 weeks ago
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it's about protocol, it's about statesmanship, it's about allies, it's about repairing the TERRIBLE IMAGE of America , and restoring the prestige the George Bush supposedly destroyed. What we see here is a pattern. A pattern first with the Brits, the Russians (Hillary should have known better) and now the Brazilians. Apparently the State Department can not even translate properly, and the Obama team misspells the Brazilian Presidents name. Reflects well on America and the new Administration doesn't it. He is a buffoon in over his head. He lacks leadership, experience and most of all JUDGEMENT. BTW did you here even more of his appointees ran into problems this week.
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And it was considered newsworthy enough to make the Miami Herald and in catching your attention that you were here within minutes to comment on it. -
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RedRiverJ8 months, 2 weeks ago
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Can you imagine if this were a republican President?
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If it were the left's poster boy of hate, dare I say the name of George W. Bush, the cries of moron and stupid would be heard on propeller.
In addition there would be the nasty filth typical on the Huffington Post, Media Matters as well as negative coverage in the drive by media with David Letterman throwing some venom with his top 10 list .
Jovial said This is news, good greif!
Yes it is news.
The most powerful man in the world hasn't a clue as to protocol. With each passing day his inexperienced is becoming more and more evident.
Is he so arrogant he would NEVER ask about protocol, or so clueless he doesn't realize it's been disregarded?
The Presidential Candidate touted as the Messiah, the man with world's most brilliant mind, the revolutionary of change, hope, the man that can solve every problem for EVERYONE in America AND pay your mortgage too, seems to be clueless on Presidential protocol.
What any American President does or doesn't do reflects upon us as a nation. What does that say for our nation with Obama in Office?
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pc258 months, 2 weeks ago
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Up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, no it's The Six-Trillion-Dollar Man:Fighting for truth, justice, and the European way
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http://www.the-two-malcontents.com/2009/02/28/the-...
he superheroes I always found hard to keep track of were the ones who kept relaunching themselves. I mean, Batman’s been Batman for 70 years and Spider-Man’s been Spider-Man for the best part of 50. But I’m thinking of chaps like Ant-Man. Very small, as one might expect. Then he became Giant-Man. Then he became Yellowjacket (his girlfriend was the Wasp). Then he became Goliath. I’ve lost track of him since then. But, thanks to my usual 20-second exhaustive research, I see he was relaunched only a month ago, this time as the Wasp. Hang on, I thought the Wasp was his chick? Has he had a sex-change? Hey, why not? For a while he was both Giant-Man and Yellowjacket, playing a kind of schizoid double-hero with each superpower emphasizing a different side of his identity.
Anyway, that’s how I feel about the endlessly morphing supergovernment hero battling the planet-swallowing economic crisis. Back in September, we were told to put our faith in Bailoutman. Then in January, Bailoutman went to his tailor, had the long underwear redesigned, and relaunched himself as Mister Stimulus. A few weeks later the Obama crowd noticed that “stimulus,” like “bailout,” had become a cheap punch line, and decided the approved term was “recovery.” So Captain Recovery swung into action. -
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nostalgia8 months, 2 weeks ago
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FTA:
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I know Obama's got bigger things to worry about, but there is a whole office of protocol that's supposed to take care of these things. If they can put together a Stevie Wonder concert, they should be able to arrange White House visits from the world's most important leaders with a little more class than this
That's the problem!
They are using the same team who plans concerts to arrange the meetings with foreign leaders!
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pc258 months, 2 weeks ago
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9JYq-mXprw
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does anyone want to lay any money on Obama going around the White House in a toga? Wonder what the Vegas odds are.......... -
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Georgia508 months, 2 weeks ago
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In deference to the White House, they had a tough choice to make. Misspell a name or let the fish monger send the Brazilian president a dead fish.
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The actual greeting caught on an open mic:
O: "It's a privilege to meet you. But I was expecting quite a crowd."
Visitor: "Just me and my entourage as discussed."
O: "Hmmm...I'm pretty sure Rahmbo told me to expect a brazillion visitors."
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Klarissa8 months, 2 weeks ago
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jovial - since when have the Republicans treated a foreign with anything but courtesy and the proper protocol.
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Bad manners in the White House not only shows a lack of personal manners but places the United States of America at the lowest level of manners.
Is Obama so tired that he is falling apart??
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Will13138 months, 2 weeks ago
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnOnDatqENo
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here's one.. for all the world to see....
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NoWayMan8 months, 2 weeks ago
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my brother lives in brasil and brasilians love love love love love love Obama.
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in fact, Obama's name recognition is so strong in Brasil that six Brasilian politicians have actually changed their names to, you guessed it, Barack Obama. some changed it legally. some just used it as a nickname (in Brasil, if you're running for office you can use either your given name or your nickname on the ballot).
putting "lula" in quotes won't offend anyone. lula's pretty cool. he likes Obama, and said Obama's election was an extraordinary event that recognized the true meaning of democracy. so, this won't bother him at all. and at least it shows that Obama understands how nicknames work in brasil, which is much different than how they work in America (as mentioned above)
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Will13138 months, 2 weeks ago
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President Bush .. showing PROPER diplomatic relations...
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Wolfie20078 months, 2 weeks ago
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Another use of the race card, how pitiful. Yelling racist is just another phony refuge for you liberal, progressive, democrat, cowards. Liberal, progressive, democrat, cowards have a way of casting a blind eye to the obvious but then profess to find inferences and meanings in things that aren't there. Yes, again, how pitiful.
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paramale8 months, 2 weeks ago
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Britain has been our most steadfast ally for a long time, and we need to enhance our relations with South America. Like I read in another comment, I thought we supposed to rebuilding our international alliances. Obama's rudeness and lack of class may become a problem, and I don't know what I think of his budget except that as a paraplegic, he seems bound and determined to give me less badly needed healthcare by getting rid of Medicare Advantage. I'm Democrat and voter for him - as he was certainly a better choice than McCain - but I worry about him not knowing what he's doing. And hey, whats this I hear about spending $900 million of the tax payers money TO REBUILD GAZA when our government is not even taking care of its own citizens, and it looks like China will be extremely hesitant to loan us more money. I do not believe in foreign aid of any type when Americans are suffering, and am not really interested in hearing "there is no money" when they have wasted billions on war, and now wasting almost a million to rebuild a country who hates our guts, but will happily take our money.
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pc258 months, 2 weeks ago
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the funniest thing about this is Jovi and the rest of the LIBS said it's not news and then spend the next 2 days trying to marginalize it. If it was not news in Britain and in Brazil, and if it did not portray Obama and his administration in a negative light than why waste the energy.
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