The Endless Epic Fail

Barack Snubbed by the Chinese

China is attempting to scupper chances of a comprehenive agreement at the Copenhagen climate summit by using delaying tactics, sources inside the negotiations have told The Independent.

At an emergency meeting convened at the Bella Center this morning, Barack Obama and Gordon Brown assembled 26 heads of state in an attempt to revive a deal. But China’s Premier Wen Jiabao did not attend and was replaced by vice foreign minister He Yafei.

This afternoon, the US president and his secretary of state Hillary Clinton called another meeting with China, but were snubbed again when only three low-level Chinese delegates arrived.

According to a high level source, the US president clearly regarded Premier Wen’s absence as a major diplomatic insult, and snapped: “It would be nice to negotiate with somebody who can make political decisions.”

He’s not just naive, ideologically-driven, and potentially evil. He’s also embarrassingly hapless when it comes to foreign policy. He showed up in Copenhagen a few months ago to pitch the case for the Olympics in Chicago, and failed in favor of a third-world crime-ridden ghetto. He let the mullahs crush the pro-freedom forces after the Iranian elections. He threw our eastern European allies under the bus by abandoning missile defense.

And now, he shows up to a meeting with the Chinese president, and the only people who show up from China are “three low-level Chinese delegates?”

This shows two things: The Chinese, to whom we owe our economic stability, think he’s weak and open to these kinds of snubs. Secondly, whoever his handlers are continue to fail him on a regular basis by putting him in these situations where he puts his credibility and star power on the line, only to crash and burn in an incredibly public way. There is no possible explanation for an American president attending ANYTHING with foreign dignitaries without being absolutely sure of the outcome before he even shows up. He’s not a fucking diplomat, and he’s not a fucking negotiator. He’s the president for Christ’s sake. Say what you want about George W. Bush, but that “inelegant” “cowboy” wouldn’t have fallen for any crap like this from anybody.

The only time Obama seems appears confident and self-assured about when it comes to foreign policy is his ability to bow inappropriately and apologize for other Americans. This is just an endless amateur hour we’re watching.