Obama: "Let Them Eat Cake"

Obama once again snubbed a head of state.  This week's unwitting victim of Dear Leader's buffoonish snobbery was Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.  Here's the story from The Times Online (emphasis added):

Binyamin Netanyahu humiliated after Barack Obama 'dumped him for dinner'

(AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

The President was said to have walked out of the meeting, saying to Mr Netanyahu: 'Let me know if there is anything new'  

For a head of government to visit the White House and not pose for photographers is rare. For a key ally to be left to his own devices while the President withdraws to have dinner in private was, until this week, unheard of. Yet that is how Binyamin Netanyahu was treated by President Obama on Tuesday night, according to Israeli reports on a trip viewed in Jerusalem as a humiliation.

After failing to extract a written promise of concessions on settlements, Mr Obama walked out of his meeting with Mr Netanyahu but invited him to stay at the White House, consult with advisers and “let me know if there is anything new”, a US congressman, who spoke to the Prime Minister, said.

“It was awful,” the congressman said. One Israeli newspaper called the meeting “a hazing in stages”, poisoned by such mistrust that the Israeli delegation eventually left rather than risk being eavesdropped on a White House telephone line. Another said that the Prime Minister had received “the treatment reserved for the President of Equatorial Guinea”. 

Left to talk among themselves Mr Netanyahu and his aides retreated to the Roosevelt Room. He spent a further half-hour with Mr Obama and extended his stay for a day of emergency talks to try to restart peace negotiations. However, he left last night with no official statement from either side. He returned to Israel yesterday isolated after what Israeli media have called a White House ambush for which he is largely to blame.

Sources said that Mr Netanyahu failed to impress Mr Obama with a flow chart purporting to show that he was not responsible for the timing of announcements of new settlement projects in east Jerusalem. Mr Obama was said to be livid when such an announcement derailed the visit to Israel by Joe Biden, the Vice-President, this month and his anger towards Israel does not appear to have cooled. 

Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, cast doubt on minor details in Israeli accounts of the meeting but did not deny claims that it amounted to a dressing down for the Prime Minister, whose refusal to freeze settlements is seen in Washington as the main barrier to resuming peace talks.
The Likud leader has to try to square the rigorous demands of the Obama Administration with his nationalist, ultra-Orthodox coalition partners, who want him to stand up to Washington even though Israel needs US backing in confronting the threat of a nuclear Iran.

“The Prime Minister leaves America disgraced, isolated and altogether weaker than when he came,” the Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz said. 

The UK's Telegraph reports that Obama left Netanyhu to stew in the White House while Obama had dinner with his family.  Said the Telegraph: "The snub marked a fresh low in US-Israeli relations and appeared designed to show Mr Netanyahu how low his stock had fallen in Washington after he refused to back down in a row over Jewish construction in east Jerusalem."

Obama is an embarrassment to the American people!  He's using Chicago thuggery when interacting on the international stage with dignitaries and heads of state, coming off as quite the arrogant and egotistical red neck among world leaders.

This is not the first time that Obama has snubbed a statesmen.  Just try googling "Obama snubs" and you get this list:

Netanyahu

Norway

Dalai Lama

King (of Norway)

Europe

Brown

Queen

England (another snubbing incident against Prime Minister Brown)

And people thought Bush was a boob.  Try googling the same: "Bush snubs ..." and you get nothing.  But, then again, perhaps Obama is better than some others.