Posted on 09/09/2009 5:25:36 AM PDT by KeyLargo
Obama to Chair UN Security Council
Role could have prez crossing paths with Gaddafi Updated 6:45 AM CDT, Wed, Sep 9, 2009
Barack Obama is set to become the first-ever U.S. president to chair the United Nations' 15-member Security Council when it meets later this month.
The council, which next meets Sept. 24, deals with a host of global challenges, including nuclear non-proliferation and nuclear disarmament. The Obama administration hopes to use the month-long appointment to emphasise a departure from the Bush administration's strategy of pursuing its own unilateral policies through the council.
Obama will join other heads of government in New York during the week of the nuclear summit for the opening of the 64th session of the UN General Assembly. Climate change and the Middle East peace process will be on the agenda for the wider body. Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, under fire for wining the freedom of a terrorist convicted of killing 270 in the Lockerbie bombing, is due to be on hand and could turn the session into a spectacle.
The State Department has not ruled out the possibility that Obama and Gaddafi would cross paths. They are both due to address the General Assembly on the same day, and the Libyan leader, whose country is a temporary member of the Security Council, is entitled to attend the nuclear summit session that Mr Obama will chair.
He was barely a senator before he ran for president. I’ve thought from the beginning that the White House is just another calling card for 0’s next job - New World Order community organizer.
“She wants to be Pope.” “Go back to your hovel” the flounder said.
This is a conflict of interest.
If Bam takes the UN position he needs to resign as POTUS.
And so it begins...
“This is a conflict of interest.
If Bam takes the UN position he needs to resign as POTUS.”
Absolutely!
Wow perfect choice with all his vast military and foreign policy experience....
Great idea!
see related thread and comments:
http://www.freerepublic.com/~euram/
09/05/2009 10:01:00 PM PDT
If I’ve read it right, looks like he even set up the agenda for the meeting. How is the chair selected? I can’t seem to find that info.
It was my impression that none of the permanent members of the security council could have someone from their country chair the Security concil. Did the rules change for Obama?
While Obama chairing the UN Security Council might stoke his monumental ego, it will not play well at home were the UN is a best suspect and at worst reviled. Doesn’t Obama have enough on his plate with the US economy in the crapper that he can now take over duties at the UN too? I would think that this move would even cause many Democrats to flinch as it gives Republicans another hot button campaign issue.
This will please the small percentage of the American public who still believe the U.N does something meaningful.
If the chief clown accepts the UN chair position, he will be in direct violation of Article 9 of the US Constitution.
I assume you refer to Clause 8 of Article 9?
Clause 8: No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.
Why is this not bigger news????—or even being discussed on Rush, etc.?? I can’t send around as my lunch hour is ending & I have to leave computer, but I wish someone would share this with Rush, Beck & Hannity!
I did not see a thread—just a profile....
Yep, that would be the one.
This is what I am wondering. It doesn’t even seem like big news here. It’s freaking me out.
Well I was posting about Health care back in April and no one cared (seriously)
—maybe (hopefully) we are just early to the party?
This is huge news—bigger than Cass Sunstein and bigger than health care or obamba’s speech.
Very little coverage!!! Is it even legal????
I don’t know if it’s legal. Presumably. However, would that matter? No one seems to be covering it. I’m wondering if it’ll be in Beck’s program because this news seems to dwarf anything related to Czars or healthcare by a long shot.
Hopefully he will cover it tomorrow, maybe rush tomorrow. This just really came in under the wire. Amazing how these things break late at nite—VOA had it on at 11 p.m. Sort of like the Van Jones thing—they break it at midnite on Sat?
I agree, this is huge, but then I did read the Left Behind Series....
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