Posted on 05/27/2011 11:41:25 AM PDT by lizol
Lech Walesa refuses meeting with Barack Obama
de A.C. HotNews.ro Vineri, 27 mai 2011, 18:41 English | Regional Europe
Lech Walesa, former leader of the Solidarity union, former President of Poland and winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1983 declared on Friday that he will not accept the invitation to meet with President Barack Obama, AFP reads. Walesa was due to meet the US President on Saturday.
It is tough to tell journalists what you would want to tell the President of a super power but this time I will not tell him, I will not meet him, the meeting does not suit me, Walesa said for Polish television TVP. Obama will arrive in Poland on Friday after the G8 meeting in France.
Walesa was due to meet Obama together with other key politicians from Poland’s transition period from Communism to democracy. According to sources close to Walesa, he was expecting a personal invitation from Obama who was also awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2009. Walesa’s decision to not meet Obama follows the decision of Romanian, Serbian and Slovakian presidents to boycott the invitation of the Polish chief of state to attend the Central European Summit.
I wouldn’t meet with Obama either!
He should go and show him his REAL nobel peace prize...
Curious.
But the big believers in free trade and capitalism in Europe are the eastern Europeans.
Perhaps Mr. Obama is not their flavor of the month?
Ooh, does that make Walesa a [gasp] racist?
Obama stabbed Poland and Czech Republic in the back on the missile defense deal. I wouldn’t meet with him either.
You think Walesa is anti-Irish? ;-)
He still so cool.
Obama's credentials, perhaps?
I guess being enslaved under 50 years of Russian Communism left a bad taste in his mouth for Leftists.
He’d probably feel overcrowded with the teleprompters in the room too.
One of Obama’s first actions was to stab Poland in the back, which was not really reported here.
I say good for Poland. There’s a saying, you are known more by your enemies than by your friends. Poland is one of the few countries that tries to stand for Christian principles. It’s very sad to me that we aren’t on better terms.
This won’t be reported either, as the MSM views their task right now is to protect Obama (shameful).
http://www.mrc.org/biasbasics/printer/biasbasics2.asp
ostinkbuggula ping
Correct. I remember that. It was disgusting move on Obama's part. The Poles and Czechs are very pro-American and trusted allies.
People who had to live through communism see right through the current office-holder and his like. Good for Walesa, if that’s the reason.
Good for him.
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