Posted on 07/10/2009 6:18:14 AM PDT by libh8er
The G8 summit in Italy is the sixth time Angela Merkel and Barack Obama have met - yet it seems all is not quite right between the pair.
Does the US President have a problem with the German Chancellor, or she with him?
It all began a year ago with Obama’s speech in Berlin.
The young White House candidate wanted to address the crowd in front of the prestigious Brandenburg Gate, but Merkel refused. She did not want to anger the then president, George W. Bush.
Obama has not forgotten the snub…
According to the 'Washington Post', Obama has "encountered a string of rebukes and lectures from Chancellor Angela Merkel" since moving into the White House.
That does not sound like a close friendship!
The newspaper also pointed out that Merkel had a very close relationship to Obama’s predecessor.
To Bush, Merkel was practically a heroine. Her long road from growing up in communist East Germany to Chancellor of a unified country was proof to Bush that freedom always won.
He listened to her with fascination when she told him about her life.
Merkel has struggled to reach this level of closeness to Obama, and is often an awkward ally for him.
• HE wants a large offensive against the Taliban in Afghanistan. SHE does not want to send German soldiers to the unstable south and refuses to call the operation a war.
• HE wants to send former Guantanamo Bay inmates to Germany. SHE has not agreed to the plans.
• HE wants to save the world economy with a massive rescue package worth billions of dollars. SHE fears inflation and talks openly about her “great scepticism” of government support for ailing economies.
The Washington Post has called it “diplomatic tension” and Obama makes no secret of it!
After his inauguration on January 20, Obama made the Chancellor wait for four months before visiting.
During his German trip at the start of June Obama declined to come to Berlin and turned down a trip to Weimar.
His family, who travelled with him to Paris and Moscow, did not come with him.
Obama is yet to accept Merkel’s invitation to the 20 anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9. He is keeping the German leader of tenterhooks.
These are not the signs of a blossoming friendship…
*butt*
“Get your hand off of me, pretender.”
I wonder if she’s poked him in the chest yet?
I believe etiquette says: A handshake between a man and a woman is to be initiated by the woman.
Our presidents just can’t keep their hands off Ms Merkel, can they?
She should invite George Bush to the 9 November celebratiion in Berlin.
“And isn’t it a lovely morning?” - Sheriff Bart
“These are not the signs of a blossoming friendship..”
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Why should someone who grew up in East Germany, make friends with a cretin who is the enemy of all “free people”? I’d say she is a smart lady, and probably pretty tough.
Why does the personal bitc* of the mid east leaders alway have to touch people?
Merkel: I told you don’t ever touch me! Now get your frigging hand off my shoulder..........
Of course she has a problem with him.
She is intelligent.
He isn’t.
She is honest.
He isn’t.
She probably achieved her position due to her own work.
He cannot spell “work”.
The touch was what it was meant to be. A gesture of condescension.
Quit staring at my @ss!
It’s an intimidation thing.
Did you ever meet someone, so condescending, so arrogant, that all you could think is they need a kick in the nuts?
LOL. I get it.
Barack has a problem with anyone who isn’t Barack.
If someone won’t lick his boots the slobbering Obamamedia considers it a snub.
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