Wonkette
Barack Obama is snubbing the European continent of Europe by declining to attend a US-EU summit in Europe’s Madrid. The Spanish Prime Minister spent all last night telling Obama how much he hated him, likely in Spanish: “The Spanish prime minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero [...] was described as angry and embarrassed, and European officials said there was a set of high-level diplomatic exchanges overnight.” Obama did not respond to any of Zapatero’s probable upside-down exclamation mark-laden text messages, because he’s like, I never said I was doing a semester abroad. Drama!
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“The White House explained the decision as a matter of scheduling, insisting that the May visit to Europe was never on the president’s agenda, so could not be said to have been canceled.
But European officials said that two senior American officials, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs William J. Burns and Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Philip H. Gordon, had attended a preparatory meeting for the summit two weeks ago in Madrid, and that there was no hint then that Mr. Obama would decide not to attend.”
Maybe Obama was planning on going, but the informational meeting didn’t make the summit sound as fun as Obama thought it was going to be? Didn’t anyone ever think of that?
Well, Europe maybe. It’s possible Europe thought of that.
Prediction: Fox News, the National Review, and the other usual suspects will suddenly start caring about the “snub” of Zapatero (a Socialist who the righties hate), which will be one of the greatest foreign policy flubs ever made, in five minutes.
Just tell them the wife put the kibbosh on the junkette, wunkette.
I love it when our pres looks like a film noir cowboy.
Maybe it’s possible that it’s become conventional political wisdom that people think Obama traveled too much last year instead of focusing on jobs? (It’s a dumb meme, which is probably why Europe doesn’t understand it, but it’s there.)
Ha ha, “Wonkette Foreign Desk.” Are you texting this from Madrid, Juli? Or is your desk from IKEA?
“I don’t think he’ll make it to England now,
It wasn’t on the schedule anywhow
…….
Let’s hear it for the rainbow tour - it’s been an incredible success;
We weren’t quite sure, we had a few doubts,
Would Obama win through, but the answer is…a qualified YES”
Wonkette should post those pics of the PM’s goth daughters, and make a snarky comment about how Obama is scared of them.
Is Europe even in America?
Viva Zapatero !!!!
In truth, none of the Europeans really care that their debt laden, gun crazed cousin won’t be stopping by this year. They are as over Obama as everyone else.
Mr Blifil: I’ve wondered that, myself. What about Canada? Is Canada in Europe?
The EU or EC of whatever does not exist except on paper. I wouldn’t go and hang out with those bureaucrats either + their English is awful, they use words like “degressive” and talk of “social partners” when they mean labor and management. Who would want to talk with them?
OK, somebody has to do one of those “Downfall” Fuehrerbunker scene recaptions, with Zapatero screaming at a bunch of guys dressed like bullfighters.
John McCain issued a statement calling Obama’s snub “offensive to Latin Americans.”
Those are two state department officials who are going to find themselves negotiating in a yurt over a vat of fermented mare’s milk by the end of the month. Hopey doesn’t need this kind of grief from Eurotrash.
Still, I can’t think of a cooler way of being called a shoemaker than Zapatero!
Send Biden. He could open his remarks by saying, “It’s nice to see all you world leaders ALIVE. According to my “EU Leader Death Pool,” my next trip will be to Italy. Somebody get me some sangria. I’m just getting started.”
Capitol Hillbilly: I know right? And Also, why is the President of Mexico getting Mad at Obama?
JMP: I’m all for snubbing this guy. Why should the president of AMERICA, not less, got meet with Mexican drug cartels. I mean, this is why we have the DEA, right?
Sticky ones like this can be fixed easy now, just send Rush over there to dance for the nice people. They like dancing bears, no? Certainly worth a quart bottle of oxy on the fed expense account.
Do American-Spanish relations really require the attention of the President? He seems kind of busy with other, more pressing matters at the moment. It’s not like Spain is threatening our coasts with an armada or anything.
tDustBowlBlues: ake the t off not and the to off got, and that makes more sense. Esp. if you remember the campaign.
Michelle doesn’t like tacos.
thejesusandmarycheney: No, really?
Gopherit: I prefer cobbler cuz I make a mean blueberry cobbler.
thejesusandmarycheney: It must be great to speak latin.
Woodwards Friend: Remember the Maine!
I don’t think Europe is a state. So, it must be just a “territory” like Canada.
hunter.blatherer: “The sheriff is near!”
Say, where is thesheriffisnear when you need ‘im?
Needs moar flan. Flandemonium!
Seems this is the direct opposite of what the Snowbilly would do; say you’re going to be somewhere and cancel at the last minute. The Pres never said he was going to begin with, so….maybe Sarah can go in his stead?? Also.
OT, but I see she’s asking that Rahm be fired….???
My mind is still boggling over “latin americans.” Someone tell me this was a joke, right?
Prommie: The joke was McCain not being able to tell his [url=http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/217881.php]burritos from his paella[/url] back in aught eight.
Prommie: Not a joke, McCain spoke in the campaign about Spain and other Latin American countries.
Let’s invade Spain.
What does Obama have against shoes?
thejesusandmarycheney: wow, url fail.
Actually what does he have against shoe repairmen
Prommie: From the campaign: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=mccain+zapatero+latin+america
Come here a minute: I think I love that site.
I have listened to people screaming Spanish in my ear for twenty-four hours and was willing to sign anything. Hang in there Prez and mark this off as OTJ training. I am sure you will get to listen to Repubs screaming in Tea-Party English (every word ends with ism). It gets louder closer to the election.
Hey I can’t find the upside down exclamation key on my ‘puter — the one time I need to use it.
Great. Now the Zapatero daughters are going to start cutting again and writing bad poetry to paste as their Facebook status.
Funnily enough (to a dimwit such as I), they share a birthday, and only one year apart! Meanwhile, the Central American guy is jealous because Barack’s a year younger and has genuine black daughters instead of pretend ones, and Barack’s jealous because Jose wears toreador pants and has four names to his three.
Pompous Magnus: But are they so goth that they’ll be piercing their pussies? (SFW, believe it or not)
hunter.blatherer: And when asked about whether he would meet with Zapateria or consider him one of American’s enemies for not supporting the war, he started rambling on about drugs. She clarified that she meant Zapateria, the president of Spain. He said, no, I wouldn’t meet with him. Am I confusing the McCain retarded appearances, or is this also the one where he was asked about fucking Zapateria and he started raving about the movie–Zapata.
Jesus. A senile and a uneducated snowbilly–what a bullet we dodged.
RoscoePColtraine: ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡Ay Caramba!!!!!! ¡¡¡¡No es bueno!!!!!
DustBowlBlues: Of course you realise that a Zapateria is a shoe store. Zapatero is the prime minister of Spain.
Copenhagen was plenty traumatic for the Prez, with the wimpy & bickering Euros and condescending Chinee. The consensus-building culture at the EU means you have to wait 5+ years for anything to happen. A summit = waste of time.
Mr Blifil: “Is Europe in America?”
“Hello. My name is Inigo Zapatero. You killed my summit. Prepare to die.”
Gopherit: Wait, are you saying that Pinocchio is a Mexican anchor baby?!
Jiminy Cricket!
Woodwards Friend: NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!
The sheriff is a nig– nevermind.
Inconctheivable!
I’m snubbing Europe because I can’t fuckin’ afford to travel anymore. Being poor sucks.
I think the two dudes who went to the pre-meeting just wanted to see if the rain in Spain falls mainly on the plains…it doesn’t so they can’t recommend the President goes.
Well, you know what they say about Madrid: Tres meses de invierno y nueve meses de infierno, which means, “Three months of winter and nine months of hell.” (It sounds better in Spanish.) Right now, it’s winter. So fuck it.
RoscoePColtraine: It’s right next to the ‘any ‘ key….
What has Europe done for us lately anyway?
Retards.
rocktonsammy: They tried to stop us from invading Iraq.
!This post was awesome! It reminded me of how easy it can be to offend a Spaniard, in this case by doing nothing. !CAN’T FIGURE OUT UPSIDE DOWN THINGY!
Pompous Magnus: Prolly just copying & pasting Morrissey lyrics. Might I recommend “Panic!”, with its veiled anti-black references (”hang the dj!” (djs are, generally, black in England, or were at the time when the song was writ))?