Posted on 03/28/2010 7:15:17 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
Updated: Obama Didn't Walk Out on Netanyahu to Go Eat With His Family 3/26/10 at 09:35 AM Comment 163Comment 163Comments Photo: Olivier Fitoussi-pool/Getty Images
It was an ominous signal when the White House didn't provide photos or briefings after the much-anticipated meeting between President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier this week. After Joe Biden was blindsided by a surprise Israeli announcement of a new East Jerusalem housing project a couple of weeks earlier, the Obama administration was clearly sending a message of extreme displeasure. Now we know just how frosty that meeting really was:
[Obama] immediately presented Mr. Netanyahu with a list of 13 demands designed both to the end the feud with his administration and to build Palestinian confidence ahead of the resumption of peace talks. Key among those demands was a previously-made call to halt all new settlement construction in east Jerusalem.
When the Israeli prime minister stalled, Mr Obama rose from his seat declaring: "I'm going to the residential wing to have dinner with Michelle and the girls."
As he left, Mr Netanyahu was told to consider the error of his ways. "I'm still around," Mr Obama is quoted by Israel's Yediot Ahronot newspaper as having said. "Let me know if there is anything new."
Obama didn't even offer a half-assed, insincere invitation for Netanyahu to join him — you know, "I'm going to go eat dinner with my family. You don't want to join, do you? It's probably not your type of food. If you want to just relax in here that's totally fine. You look comfortable." That's when you know relations have really become strained.
Obama snubbed Netanyahu for dinner with Michelle and the girls, Israelis claim [Telegraph UK]
Update: Despite reports that Obama left his meeting with Netanyahu to eat dinner with his family, and others that claim Obama left the meeting to put his daughters to bed, the White House points out to us that such scenarios are impossible, since Michelle, Sasha, and Malia Obama were in New York City that night.
Pints of Ben and Jerry's.
smoke break?
What it tells me is that it was a “throw away”line.
Something to give him an excuse to let Bibe sit and
stew. Chicago thug behavour.
Once you start doing that, the lies come easier and easier.
“Something to give him an excuse to let Bibe sit and
stew. Chicago thug behavour.”
Absolutely, but then any excuse would have done. Personally, I don’t think obama knows from one day to the next what his family is up to, so IMO he thought it was as good an excuse as any to say he was having dinner with them.
But since obama knew his family was away, it’s impossible that he said this, therefore Bibi is the liar. That’s just the way I see their spin.
The presumption is faulty: that the report must be false because the scenario (family in the White Hut) was false.
Interesting that "such scenarios are impossible" verses "The White Hut/The One didn't say that".
Whatever. These folks make the Clintons look like pillars of virtue.
No apology is necessary. We all know who the infidels are and it is us, Christians and Jews.
Too, he may have just become a little wee-weed up.
He was having a tete-a-tete with Reggie Love, First Buddy....
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