Please tell me why the U.S. president should kowtow to a country that has recently been incredibly abusive about the U.S. AND is currently head of the European Union, which is totally NOT the way we want America to be? If this had been W or Reagan, you’d be praising him for snubbing these folks.
Are you being intentionally dense? Do you know who Vaclav Klaus, Czech head of state, is, and what he outspokenly believes?
Hint: It's not what Obama, or the Euro elite, believe, and that's why he's being snubbed -- intentionally.
"The EU's ruling elite view President Klaus, a distinguished academic economist, with a mixture of bewilderment, hatred and contempt. As his country's prime minister, he applied to join the EU in the days after the fall of Communism in the 1990s. But now Klaus is alone among European leaders in expressing openly Eurosceptic views, not least about the Lisbon Treaty, which the Czech parliament has yet to ratify.
Klaus was an outspoken dissident under the Communist regime, and he has come to regard the EU as dangerously anti-democratic. But he compounds this sin with highly sceptical views on global warming, on which he recently published a book, Blue Planet in Green Shackles. He likens the extreme environmentalism favoured by the EU to Communism, as a serious threat to democracy, freedom and prosperity.
No I would not. Reagan was never rude to any leader.
Obama and his silly wife are disgraceful posers.
“to a country that has recently been incredibly abusive about the U.S”
How ?
“AND is currently head of the European Union, which is totally NOT the way we want America to be?”
LOL ! So what in your opinion the President of the US should do visiting China or Saudi Arabia ?