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Daily Mail ^ | 11/11/11

Posted on 11/11/2011 6:41:53 AM PST by Libloather

Obama reads riot act to European leaders in late night phone calls and orders them to take more dramatic action on debt crisis
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 12:55 PM on 11th November 2011

Barack Obama has read the riot act to the leaders of several European countries - saying more dramatic action is needed to avert a eurozone meltdown.

The U.S. President made telephone calls to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Italian President Giorgio Napolitano late last night.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said the president had demanded faster action from Europe.

It came as Hong Kong revealed it had plunged into recession.

Speaking from the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation conference, Geithner said: 'The crisis in Europe remains the central challenge to global growth.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
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To: Libloather

The follow-up story:

European leaders erupt in uproarious laughter after Obama read them the riot act


21 posted on 11/11/2011 6:53:05 AM PST by FourPeas ("Maladjusted and wigging out is no way to go through life, son." -hg)
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To: Libloather

Spoken like a community organizer. I see he’s still into arranging the deck chairs on a sinking ship.


22 posted on 11/11/2011 6:53:23 AM PST by meatloaf (It's time to push back against out of control government.)
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To: Libloather

What is he? King of the world? What a boor.


23 posted on 11/11/2011 6:53:42 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Libloather
If Obama really cared he would let the Europeans have Tim Geithner, fresh off his triumphant turnaround of the US economy.


24 posted on 11/11/2011 6:54:28 AM PST by Iron Munro (One Trillion seconds = 31,709 years. One Trillion dollars = 3 Months of Obama Spending)
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To: DH
And.....if they don’t obey “the anointed one?” What then?

Double secret probation?

25 posted on 11/11/2011 6:54:28 AM PST by NCjim (Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.)
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To: Libloather

His arrogance is truly breathtaking.

I thought this guy was some diplomatic genius who was going to fix all our broken relationships around the world.

I bet these Euroleaders are waxing nostalgic for George W these days.


26 posted on 11/11/2011 6:55:42 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Libloather

He’s running for president for Pets’s sake!


27 posted on 11/11/2011 6:56:43 AM PST by FourPeas ("Maladjusted and wigging out is no way to go through life, son." -hg)
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To: FourPeas

I think he had to call them to try and portray himself as a leader, because they basically ignored him at the G-20.

I do wonder who actually took his calls.
Some long-suffering personal secretaries on the night shift.


28 posted on 11/11/2011 6:58:20 AM PST by silverleaf (When your outgo exceeds your income, your upkeep will be your downfall)
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To: griswold3

4.3% growth is not exactly a recession, but they consider it that because it’s down 2 straight quarters.


29 posted on 11/11/2011 7:00:39 AM PST by SQUID
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To: Libloather

ZerO, if that isn’t the pot calling the kettle black, I don’t know what is.


30 posted on 11/11/2011 7:00:49 AM PST by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: Libloather

The mouse that roared.

I mean, seriously. He needs to be “bitch-slapped” in the worst way. Or maybe a wedgie.


31 posted on 11/11/2011 7:01:43 AM PST by Tigerized (Occupy Wall Street? Go find the real culprits in the Capitol Building...)
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To: RC2
It's Obama’s stash now. He's appointed himself President of the World and it's all his money. Funny he felt the need to roam the globe apologizing for America's arrogance in exceptionalism yet he can't see how his Presidency and actions are what the world needs an apology for.
32 posted on 11/11/2011 7:02:35 AM PST by liberalh8ter
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To: Libloather

Pot . . . . . . kettle . . . . .


33 posted on 11/11/2011 7:03:11 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Libloather

The One demands faster action. Let’s see, the ECB dumped Billions supporting crashing Italian bonds, now French and Austrian rates are heading up. The Greek government was toppled in favor of an ECB man (the same one who presided over the book cooking that got them into this mess). The Italian government is headed for the same fate. The EFSF floated a bond offering which failed miserably. Germany and France are now looking to exit the EU.

It would appear that the world is running out of the ink and electrons required to print “Money”. The end game approacheth...


34 posted on 11/11/2011 7:03:23 AM PST by Jack of all Trades (Hold your face to the light, even though for the moment you do not see.)
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To: yldstrk

What is he? King of the world?


35 posted on 11/11/2011 7:03:31 AM PST by Iron Munro (One Trillion seconds = 31,709 years. One Trillion dollars = 3 Months of Obama Spending)
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To: Libloather

Good grief. Why should European leaders listen to someone who has to bribe his Leftists at home to vote for him next year? Who is “leader” of a country with many TRILLIONS of dollars of debt and no hope of paying it off? Who is the laughing stock of half his country?

BO should have absolutely no credibility in European capitals, but then these countries let a little man with a funny mustache lead them into the world’s most destructive war on their continent.


36 posted on 11/11/2011 7:03:54 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: Libloather

Fact is that as western civilization gets closer and closer to total meltdown, you will see more and more desperate action by leaders.


37 posted on 11/11/2011 7:03:56 AM PST by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: silverleaf
I do wonder who actually took his calls. Some long-suffering personal secretaries on the night shift.

"Oh no! It's that arrogant, airheaded mulatto from America again. Who wants to be the Undersecretary this time?"


38 posted on 11/11/2011 7:08:20 AM PST by Iron Munro (One Trillion seconds = 31,709 years. One Trillion dollars = 3 Months of Obama Spending)
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To: Voter#537

39 posted on 11/11/2011 7:08:28 AM PST by Future Snake Eater (Don't stop. Keep moving!)
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To: Libloather

This coming from a community organizer the likes of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson to put this in prespective, with no business or financial background, never held a job, ran a small business, never balanced a personel check book, never held any elected office in a village, town, county, mayor or governor except a senatorship for a whole hot minute, and we can only imagine what they said to each other after they recieved this call.


40 posted on 11/11/2011 7:08:40 AM PST by ronnie raygun (V)
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