How the hell do you take calls from China and Russia and push the Philippines to the back of the line? That has to be the Indonesian in Obama.
The good people of the Philippines are not happy:In the first blush of victory, US President-elect Barack Obama accepted congratulations from nine presidents and prime ministers and returned their calls. President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, one of the numerous early callers, was not one of the chosen few.
The favored world leaders were Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso, Mexican President Felipe Calderon, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
All are leaders of democracies known as important allies of the United States. Two are Asians—Aso and Lee; one is leader of the centerpiece of US policy in the Middle East, Olmert of Israel; Calderon heads Mexico, the most strategic US neighbor in Latin America; and the rest are leaders of Europe’s most important democracies.
A second round of calls to world leaders quickly followed on Saturday when Obama spoke with Chinese President Hu Jintao, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Polish President Lech Kaczynski and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.After this second round, Ms Arroyo was pushed back on the queue of the waiting list. Malacañang has been waiting in vain for a return call. None, at the time of this writing, had been received.
From the looks of it, the Philippines is not on the Obama radar screen, no matter how our humiliated leaders on the waiting list claim our strategic importance is to the United Sates in the Asia-Pacific region and our historic ties with Washington.Can you blame them for being so pissed? After all the help they have given us with fighting Islamic fundamentalism? Say, you don't think that could have something to do with Obama's snub do you?
Obama has barely a couple of years experience as junior senator from Illinois and has only a brushing acquaintance with foreign policy. It’s very likely the Philippines struck him as just a speck on the map.
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a disrespect to our president here in the Philippines is a disrespect to our country and to us!
Is this post a joke? Or are you really this stupid?
Obama called back Arroyo on November 17, the first Southeast Asian leader to get a call back from him. He still gotten around to calling other Southeast Asian leaders (except Indonesia's president, which he called on November 22). It's only yesterday that he got around to calling the heads of Denmark, Netherlands, Greece, Iraq, Kuwait, and Qatar.
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