White House pressed on why Obama UN itinerary doesn't include meetings with world leaders

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Fox News:

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney faced pressure to explain Monday why President Obama has made no public plans to meet one on one with world leaders on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly.

Asked repeatedly at the briefing about the president's plans, Carney said that Obama likely would run into foreign leaders at a reception Monday evening and continues to stay in contact with them. He urged Americans to tune in to the president's U.N. speech on Tuesday.

"The president's obviously got a busy schedule. He has a busy schedule all the time," Carney said at one point.

But Carney did not appear to give a direct answer when asked why Obama was able to fit in 13 one-on-one meetings on the sidelines of last year's summit and none this year. Obama instead was letting Secretary of State Hillary Clinton handle the meetings this year while he and first lady Michelle Obama were sitting down Monday for a taping of ABC's "The View" -- sparking criticism that he was putting the election campaign above such issues as Iran's quest for nuclear capability and the violent, deadly protests in the Middle East and North Africa.

It's still possible that Obama could schedule a last-minute meeting, but none so far have been announced.

Carney stressed that, amid the violent unrest in the Middle East, Obama recently has had phone conversations with the leaders of Egypt, Libya, Yemen and other nations.

"The president has had extensive conversations with leaders in the region where there has been unrest of late, he will continue to have those conversations," he said. "He will see leaders from a variety of regions tonight at a reception in New York as part of the General Assembly and will deliver very important remarks tomorrow."

Clinton was handling the major meetings Monday. The secretary was meeting with Libyan President Mohamed Magariaf, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

The wave of criticism about Obama allegedly putting his election efforts first began earlier this month with news that the White House had declined a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu because the president would be on the campaign trail.

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has repeatedly accused Obama of "throwing Israel under the bus" and most recently said the president's decision not to meet with Netanyahu was "confusing and troubling."

White House officials have said such a meeting is perhaps still possible Thursday or Friday.

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Depending on his talk-show schedule, of course...

[Pepper]

@Valin

@pollyannaish

@Casino67

 

The reason Obama will not meet with world leaders because the election rules would allow Governor Romney to meet with those same leaders.

 

Obama would pale in comparison. So he stays home and blames the video maker.

[Valin]

@Valin

@pollyannaish

@Casino67

 

The reason Obama will not meet with world leaders because the election rules would allow Governor Romney to meet with those same leaders.

 

Got a source on that. Never heard that one before. Of course the Election rules a so screwed up it wouldn't surprise me.

 

[Casino67]

@Valin

@pollyannaish

@Casino67

 

The reason Obama will not meet with world leaders because the election rules would allow Governor Romney to meet with those same leaders.

 

Got a source on that. Never heard that one before. Of course the Election rules a so screwed up it wouldn't surprise me.

 

Seems as though he could meet whomever he wanted to.

[Draggingtree]

No Fun Intended

 

 

 

Posted by Joel Engel Tuesday, September 25, 2012 at 1:44pm

 

The mainstream press is determined to keep pounding the “Arab Spring” fiction the same way its man in Moscow, Walter Duranty, kept insisting Stalin was Socrates.

 

Duranty had his own pathetic reasons for lying. Today’s reporters do it to prop up President Obama, because calling spring winter wouldn’t look good for their man in Washington.

 

Even so, sometimes the truth leaks out inadvertently. Here’s the lede from an article in yesterday’s New York Times.

 

President Hosni Mubarak did not even wait for President Obama’s words to be translated before he shot back.

 

“You don’t understand this part of the world,” the Egyptian leader broke in. “You’re young.”

 

Mr. Obama, during a tense telephone call the evening of Feb. 1, 2011, had just told Mr. Mubarak that his speech, broadcast to hundreds of thousands of protesters in Tahrir Square in Cairo, had not gone far enough. Mr. Mubarak had to step down, the president said.

http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/09/no-fun-intended/

[Casino67]

So who is advising him about this stuff? Valerie? Hillary? His re-election campaign? Or did our DL do it on his own?

 

44 days to go.

[Pepper]

@Valin

@pollyannaish

@Casino67

 

The reason Obama will not meet with world leaders because the election rules would allow Governor Romney to meet with those same leaders.

 

Got a source on that. Never heard that one before. Of course the Election rules a so screwed up it wouldn't surprise me.

 

Seems as though he could meet whomever he wanted to.

 

KT McFarland: Obama Blocked Mitt Romney From Meeting With World Leaders at UN (Video)

 

 

And here

[Valin]

@Valin

@pollyannaish

@Casino67

 

The reason Obama will not meet with world leaders because the election rules would allow Governor Romney to meet with those same leaders.

 

Got a source on that. Never heard that one before. Of course the Election rules a so screwed up it wouldn't surprise me.

 

Seems as though he could meet whomever he wanted to.

 

KT McFarland: Obama Blocked Mitt Romney From Meeting With World Leaders at UN (Video)

 

 

And here

 

Where is the election rule that states this?

[Pepper]

@Valin

Here's the White House spin version

[Valin]

@Valin

Here's the White House spin version

 

I haven't read it yet....will it make my head hurt?

[Valin]

@Valin

Here's the White House spin version

 

I haven't read it yet....will it make my head hurt?

 

Ya know, you'd think after all these years I'd learn to listen to the little voice that tells me not to do something....but no I never do, and then as my head explodes I promise myself...next time I'm gonna listen.