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Obama Becoming Global Joke? King Of Bahrain Snubs US President, Meets Horse Instead

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Having been 'snubbed' by the new Saudi King Salman, it appears the uneasy relationshipo with our 'allies' in The Gulf is ebbing. In what the State Department will, we are sure, just brush off, Politico reports that the king of Bahrain has apparently also snubbed President Barack Obama, preferring instead to attend a horse show with Queen Elizabeth.

Obama had invited the leaders of the six Gulf Cooperation Council nations - Bahrain, Oman, the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia - to discuss regional security and other issues at a Camp David summit this week; but with Bahrain and Saudi Arabia missing, it appears the discussion will be short.

According to Reuters, King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa has elected to attend the Royal Windsor Horse Show, which begins Wednesday, at Windsor Castle outside London.

 

Obama had invited the leaders of the six Gulf Cooperation Council nations — Bahrain, Oman, the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia — to discuss regional security and other issues at a Camp David summit this week.

 

But Saudi King Salman announced Sunday that he would send a surrogate instead of attending himself, joining the leaders of the UAE and Oman, who have cited health concerns in their decisions not to attend. The Bahraini king’s decision not to attend was reported earlier this week, though his trip to the United Kingdom was first announced Wednesday.

 

Analysts have pointed to a growing rift between the Obama administration and the Gulf’s Sunni states over the emerging nuclear deal with Iran as a chief reason for the snub, though the Saudi king, as well as his Bahraini counterpart, have denied such assertions.

 

Bahrain’s official news agency reported that the country’s foreign minister identified the horse show and subsequent meeting with the queen as “a longstanding prior engagement” that necessitated the king’s absence from the Camp David summit.

 

The leader of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, met with the English royal at the Royal Ascot horse race but elected to fly to Washington to attend the meeting with Obama afterward.

The U.S. may be seeking a rapprochement with Iran over its nuclear program, potentially ending several decades of hostility, but as OilPrice noted yesterday, while the U.S. is extending an open hand to Iran, other countries in the Middle East are casting a wary eye towards the negotiations...

In fact, it is starting to appear that Gulf Arab states could be a major impediment to a final agreement over Iran’s nuclear program. Led by Saudi Arabia, many of the oil-producing members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) are skeptical of, if not downright hostile towards Iran. With little trust between Iran and its Arab neighbors, it will be hard to get all of the Middle East on board for an agreement. On this, GCC states find themselves in the same camp as Israel.

 

The Obama administration surely thought it could get countries like Saudi Arabia and Bahrain to get behind a nuclear deal, owing to the fact that they are close allies of the United States.

 

But in a surprise move, Saudi Arabia’s King Salman decided not to attend a summit hosted by U.S. President Barack Obama in Camp David this week. As recently as May 8, Saudi Arabia confirmed that the King would attend the meeting, intended to assuage the security concerns of Gulf countries over the pending nuclear negotiations.

 

Ostensibly, the Saudi King is staying behind to monitor the security situation in Yemen, as the conflict enters a temporary cease-fire beginning on May 13. “There is zero tension,” a Saudi official reportedly said in an effort to downplay the significance of Saudi Arabia’s decision to blow off the Camp David event, according to the Washington Post. “In fact, the relationship is as strong as it has been in quite some time. Our understanding is that the Saudis and other GCC leaders are quite pleased with U.S. positions and the substance of Camp David, including any assistance we are going to provide.”

 

However, the New York Times reported that Saudi Arabia was disappointed with what the U.S. offered through Secretary of State John Kerry, when he met with the King in Riyadh last week. Saudi Arabia was apparently looking for a much stronger assurance of U.S. support, such as a defense treaty. The U.S., however, is not willing to go that far, which likely led to the Saudi King’s decision to cancel his trip to Camp David.

 

Bahrain, Oman, and the UAE will also not be sending their heads of state. Instead, the four Gulf nations will send deputies. Only the leaders of Kuwait and Qatar will attend.

 

Even worse, the Saudi government is reportedly mulling over the possibility of pursuing its own nuclear weapons program, precisely due to its security fears from Iran. The Wall Street Journal reported on May 7 that Saudi officials feel that the 10-year restrictions on Iran’s uranium and centrifuge stockpile included in the framework agreement will not be enough to permanently block Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. “We prefer a region without nuclear weapons. But if Iran does it, nothing can prevent us from doing it too, not even the international community,” Abdullah al Askar, a former top Saudi official on foreign affairs told WSJ.

 

Meanwhile, the Obama administration is also seeking to beef up the nuclear deal to counter criticism from Congressional opponents. U.S. negotiators are hoping to include provisions that automatically reinstate sanctions if Iran violates the terms of a deal, removing the need to go back to the UN for consensus, where Russia and China could block a return to sanctions.

 

What to make of all of this? The Obama administration has an increasingly small needle to thread. With boisterous opposition from Israel, Congressional Republicans, and now perhaps much of the GCC, the U.S. government is in a race against the clock to come to terms with Iran before the whole thing falls apart.

 

The one thing going for it is the fact that Iran itself is signaling its enthusiasm for a post-sanctions reality. The Iranian government is secretly courting western oil firms for investment, which could only be possible if a deal is reached. The same is true for a dramatic rise in oil production. The National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) projected its production would rise to 5 million barrels per day by 2020, up from 2.7 million barrels per day last year. Again, that will only be possible if Iran successfully attracts billions of dollars in new investment. The desire to see sanctions lifted could make Iran more amenable at the negotiating table.

 

But unless the U.S. can do more to make Saudi Arabia feel comfortable, the nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) – whose support the U.S. has stated will be critical – may undermine a comprehensive deal with Iran.

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Frenemies?

 

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Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:28 | 6093488 LetThemEatRand
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Well at least he was willing to meet with Kerry.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:29 | 6093490 Osmium
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You beat me too it.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:40 | 6093529 remain calm
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Headline should of read King chooses horse over horses ass

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:42 | 6093547 Jethro
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I  came here to post that.  LOL

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:47 | 6093571 forexskin
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His O-ness just needs to bow LOWER.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:51 | 6093589 semperfi
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he does - for Reggie

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:02 | 6093624 Waylon Bits
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Awesome!  Headline made we day, fuck you Barry and fuck Manchelle too! 

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:07 | 6093636 NidStyles
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The further along we go, the more obvious it is that the Protocols of Zion were real.

 

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:13 | 6093652 Pinto Currency
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Suspect it is not so much about Iran as it is systematically creating and arming destabilizing elements like ISIS, sowing chaos in MENA (the latest Yemen) and then walkng away from it.

They can see the destruction of their own countries coming.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:17 | 6093668 PartysOver
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I wonder if Chris Mathews leg is still tingling.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:35 | 6093731 Pure Evil
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Of course the real question on everyone's mind is.....which leg?

Now if Chris still had a third leg it would be understandable, but as everyone knows Chris Matthews had a transgender operation and replaced his twig and berries with a Wookie.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 14:06 | 6093868 clooney_art
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Just drop a bomb, these idiots will start respeking you.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 14:27 | 6093936 SMG
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If you live in the US or allied countries you and your family have to start getting ready for WWIII, things like this are all signs of it inching closer.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 14:42 | 6093983 BoredRoom
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We "raycists" got the joke 7 years ago

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 20:36 | 6095453 Richard Chesler
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"becoming"

Becoming????

Wake the fuck up already!

 

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:14 | 6094096 AIIB
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"If you live in the US or allied countries you and your family have to start getting ready for WWIII, things like this are all signs of it inching closer."

 

But I'm guessing that if you're 'LUCIFERIAN', yet, endeavor to paint goats blood across your doorframe parameters, you'll be OK...

 

Dude, you're such a fucking joke!... In any case... Thx 4 the YUKS!

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:35 | 6094185 SMG
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Hello Friend, This is about your 8th or 9th new alias. since you've been on zero hedge (maybe more who knows.)

Really what kind of person are you?  You post things all day on here, things you KNOW aren't true.

Is this what you thought you'd  be when you were a kid?  A propagandist?

This sad thing is billions of innocents are going to be killed in what's coming, because people like you did evil's bidding and kept the warnings from getting out.

I think of all the sins genocide of innocents to consolidate your groups power, would rank right up there with the most satanic ever done in history.

One day you will be judged for your part, you will have to reckon for the part you played, even if your side wins.

It's not to late, maybe it's time for a new line of work, there is still hope for you friend, you can repent and be forgiven.

And until then I'm going to keep trying warn as many as I can no matter what you say, because that's the best way for me to serve a loving God so many have turned away from.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:01 | 6094310 DutchR
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Funny how a Queen trumps a Joker

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:08 | 6094333 AIIB
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Actually, I post things everyday that I know ARE true...

 

The fact that I'm on my 12th life is because of 'folks' like you...

 

"This sad thing is billions of innocents are going to be killed in what's coming, because people like you did evil's bidding and kept the warnings from getting out."

 

100% agree

 

"I think of all the sins genocide of innocents to consolidate your groups power, would rank right up there with the most satanic ever done in history."

 

100% agree

 

"One day you will be judged for your part, you will have to reckon for the part you played, even if your side wins."

 

Agree, but not to any measurable extent +/-... I'm not worried about 'winning', or 'reckoning',,, My perspective speaks for itself because I don't pretend to hide behind a CHOSEN ONE falsehood...

 

"It's not to late, maybe it's time for a new line of work, there is still hope for you friend, you can repent and be forgiven."

 

Unless you haven't checked... THERE ARE NO JOBS... & Even if there were jobs which paid me to blather on about diverting critism about the greedy motherfuckers who(m) occupy the nodes of power in this world, I wouldn't even THINK to take a sheckel from them...

 

""It's not to late, maybe it's time for a new line of work, there is still hope for you friend, you can repent and be forgiven."

 

You keep doing what 'program' your 'Architecht' tells you you must follow... At least I don't blame you 4 that... MAY YOU LIVE LONG & WIN LOTS OF PRIZES!

 

https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://img.washingt...

 

 

 

 

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:41 | 6093767 Oh regional Indian
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This is all signalling.

We are getting to watch, live and in real time, the kind of massive, global shuffle that set up the axis/allies in WWII.

Nothing is boding well for the anglo-saxon world at this point. Rather unfortunate that the moral majority is mindfucked and the intelligent minority is a well boiled frog.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:45 | 6093785 new game
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i would rather go in the woods and meet 1000 mosquitos and 100 wood ticks and donate blood than be in the company of the most famous blood sucker known to mankind.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 14:10 | 6093880 sleigher
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Even if the Americans were ostensibly the good guys in WWII, they will certainly be on the wrong side of history this time.  I suppose that will truly be determined by who gets to write it though.

I suspect it won't be the Americans this time.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:25 | 6094148 LawsofPhysics
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So, the world remains as it always has been, evolve or die.


Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:06 | 6094327 DutchR
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To die is certain

Anything else is gravy

 

 

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:20 | 6093674 Theosebes Goodfellow
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I wonder how long it will take for people to grasp the fact that Barry Soetoro, aka Barack Hussein Obama, simply doesn't care. He just doesn't give a shit. Getting foreign heads of government to snub him is part of his plan to "bring America down a peg or two".

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:22 | 6093685 NidStyles
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Which is why the "Protocols" make sense IMO.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:09 | 6094340 DutchR
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How long you wonder?

December 23, 1913 and counting

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:08 | 6093616 Achilles Heel
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.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:08 | 6093642 Matthew John
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the king of Bahrain has apparently also snubbed President Barack Obama, preferring instead to attend a horse show with Queen Elizabeth.

Are you kidding me? What's the problem?

Why would anyone choose Obama over a horse?

 

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:10 | 6093648 Achilles Heel
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Kerry vs. Obama isn't much of a choice

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:38 | 6093760 Pure Evil
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Well, since Kerry resembles Mr. Ed in many respects and the Prince loves horses his decision makes more sense with this new perspective.

I just hope Mr. Kerry Ketchup can win a blue ribbon in the horse show.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:43 | 6093552 espirit
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So the Saudi's want a nuke program to counter Iran?

Moar likely to prevent a Zionist takeover.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:47 | 6093555 smlbizman
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how much do i love everybody finally telling the biggest bully on the block to go fuck his sister for 7,500 amonth in his basement...iran locked on, russia china, etc etc etc etc

 

headline re- written...usa has become global joke...

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:53 | 6093595 847328_3527
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Honda adds 4.89 mn vehicles to exploding airbag recall

 

http://news.yahoo.com/honda-adds-4-89-mln-vehicles-recall-over-055507442...

 

Wall Street gets bailout Trillions ... "Everyday Merikans" get exploding airbags.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:21 | 6093679 Crash Overide
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Is there a nazi ketchup kerry joke in there somewhere too?

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:39 | 6093530 Pladizow
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So he met with Michelle?

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:44 | 6093558 Jethro
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She's a Wookie, not a horse.  Not sure if she wears a feed bag though. 

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:50 | 6093581 semperfi
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or a pig

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:56 | 6093605 ParkAveFlasher
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My theory: rogue sasquatch

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:22 | 6093681 Theosebes Goodfellow
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Southern Yeti?

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 14:03 | 6093858 CuttingEdge
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On a positive note, she's a shoo in for the new Star Wars trilogy if it's scripted for Chewbacca to get a mate (assuming he's gay).

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:50 | 6093587 knukles
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School kids wish she ate her own damned lunches, fer sure

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:11 | 6093651 Achilles Heel
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school kids prolly wish she ate THEIR lunches

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:23 | 6093687 Crash Overide
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I wonder what Obama's adopted kids think of their mom's school lunch.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:33 | 6093725 Winston Churchill
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What about a tail bag, otherwise who is going to be mucking out the white hut ?

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 14:41 | 6093956 Jethro
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Dupetastic

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:17 | 6094072 Freddie
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The only thing worse than Obaola and sychophant Democrats are the traitorous scum Republicans voting for TPP.  One party rule.

F the Republicants/Replicants pretending to be an opposition party.  I expect the Dems to be scum but traitorous scum like Rubio, McCain, Cruz, Corker, McConnel and the rest are even worse. 

F them all.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:30 | 6093494 HowdyDoody
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Jokes are funny, supposedly.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:31 | 6093504 Pooper Popper
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This whole fucking thing is going down,,THII YEAR!

Prepare!

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:49 | 6093580 knukles
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What?  Obama was willing to meet with Kerry? 
Quelle Breakthrough!

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:53 | 6093594 Kirk2NCC1701
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I can only hope that the Rift will get wider, faster.

Fuck the Saudis and the Gulf States!

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:55 | 6093599 czarangelus
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First post and the thread is already over. Congrats, sir.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:15 | 6093661 indygo55
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This is where the Kerry/horse joke gets inserted.

 

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 14:06 | 6093869 Katastrofenhausse
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Don't forget Sarah Jessica Parker

http://SarahJessicaParkerLooksLikeAHorse.com/

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:30 | 6093717 Canadian Dirtlump
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This is hilarious and all, but the truth is you have 2 branches of satanists drifting away from each other. The sooner the gulf monarchies get nuked the better. They are the ideological home base for radical islam, the paymatsers for it, not to mention the saudis pumping record oil in the face of weak demand could easily be considered an economic act of war to the west and russia.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 14:41 | 6093976 sandhillexit
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This is perfect.  US pivots TOWARD Persia and Kurdistan and the Wahhabists have only themselves to blame.  Persia, Iraq, Kurdistan and Syria have business to do (good for Schlumberger, etc) and citizens to build businesses/buy stuff (CISCO, HP, MSFT, ORCL).   It helps the global economy to bring these folks back online.  The kingdoms have a few guys in dresses and slaves from Pakistan and Bengladesh.  Let the creeper hang out with Betty. Perfect.  Now they can't complain..... 

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 14:39 | 6093972 williambanzai7
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Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:26 | 6094152 ajax
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What a load of cheap horseshit comments from all of you who are forever and ever going on and on about the fall of the Roman Empire. Not a one of you has mentioned "Incitatus", Caligula's horse and Senator:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAxBPnNrsJM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incitatus

Shame shame shame on ZHers for the oversight and choosing the cheapshot instead.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:40 | 6094216 ajax
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And furthermore, it says a lot more about Bahrain than it does about POTUS.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 20:05 | 6095327 drendebe10
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Hahahaha... send the fudgepacker back to the Wives Club..... Hahahaha 

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:28 | 6093489 Osmium
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Obama Becoming Global Joke? King Of Bahrain Snubs US President, Meets Horse Instead.

Wait, I'm confused.  is he meeting with John Kerry, or the Queen?

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:30 | 6093498 Joebloinvestor
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Had to look at a horse?

HAHAHAHA

 

That is a lot better then ,"I had to wash my harem".

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:38 | 6093523 LawsofPhysics
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Really, personally, out of the two activities, "washing my harem" seems like it would be considerably more fun than "looking at a horse".

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:12 | 6093655 spinone
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Not if you have to wash them all the time. He's probably sick of it.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:38 | 6093526 Winston Churchill
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The Bahraini's are very fond of their horses.

The old Emir(wee Jock) as he was affectionately known as) built a beautiful racetrack in the desert,

with its own desalination plant.

Maybe Kerry can race there some day when he grows up.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:41 | 6093771 Pure Evil
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I doubt it.

Kerry's been ready for the glue factory for quite some time.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:30 | 6093500 Dathedr
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Murica's ever been a joke. Only now when it stopped bribing other countries and their people does it show in full.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:36 | 6093520 Kaiser Sousa
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precisely...

they aint snubbing the current puppet in cheif...

theyre snubbing this fucking MoneyChanger controlled govenment and country....

 

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:35 | 6093501 MFL8240
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He has been a global joke since the day the American fools elected this incompent clown!

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:42 | 6093550 ParkAveFlasher
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He was not elected.  He was installed.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:48 | 6093573 SoilMyselfRotten
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His predecessor was installed. Obama was anointed.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:20 | 6093662 AIIB
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This is basically how it operates

 

In 2008 & 2012, jews decided that he was their man. It's hard to say that much would have been any different any way...

 

2008

 

McCain

http://www.saveyourheritage.com/images/McCainWails.jpg

https://www.google.com/search?q=hillary+clinton+at+wailing+wall&biw=1920...

Obama

http://www.saveyourheritage.com/images/Obama%20Wailing%20Wall.jpg

 

2012

 

Romney

http://www.veteransnewsnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Mitt-Romney-at...

 

2016

 

Hillary (already paid the sheckels)

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/01/02/world/clinton600.jpg

 

Fuck these fucks!

 

See, basically, the jews aren't as powerful as they thought because they failed to get Gore/Lieberman elected in 2000...

 

That was their chance to have Gore killed, Blame it on Bush, & have Lieberman as their GAY President.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:48 | 6093579 Thorny Xi
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That was Bush.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:43 | 6093778 rejected
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" He has been a global joke since the day the American fools elected this incompent clown!"

 

He has been a global joke since the day Diebold elected this incompent clown!

Fixed!

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:31 | 6093502 pods
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"In other news, Rita Katz has information that ISIS has set up their C&C operations in Bahrain."

pods

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:34 | 6093514 Make_Mine_A_Double
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Travel outside the USSA - yup, he's a joke, assclown, national embarrassment. Also a known homosexual and Castrolite down South.

Never hear that stuff here in the Castle of Propaganda and Lies the MSM dumbs down the sheep with.

I've see more free and active press in countries round the world - where it's fricking dangerous to publish - in 3td world places - that are a 100 times more free wheeling than the States.

But people get what they deserve.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:39 | 6093537 skbull44
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He gets fairly positive press coverage by the mainstream media here in the U.S. Vassal state known as Canada...
http://olduvai.ca

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:56 | 6093608 Make_Mine_A_Double
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LOL - back in my drinking dayz whenever I was up in VAN BC on biz one of my simple pleasure was mixing a few martinis and turning on CBC.

It was so over the top - unicorns and lollipops for everyone. A laugh a minute.  

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:36 | 6093519 skbull44
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I believe Peak Obama occurred shortly after his first election win...
http://olduvai.ca

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 14:41 | 6093975 hopefulbutwary
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For me, Peak Obama was whan he broke his campaign promise to end the war in Afghanistan, and sent 30,000 troops.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:37 | 6093521 Chuck DeBongo
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Maybe royalty generally like to hang around with other royalty. Maybe elected heads of states aren't quite seen the same way. But that's just my opinion.

 

By the way, it's Queen Elizabeth II. Queen Elizabeth was someone vastly different!

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:39 | 6093535 HonkyShogun
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You must be British because nobody else really thinks about royalty.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:45 | 6093560 Chuck DeBongo
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Bingo! I am! Well done! :O)

 

But I would disagree with no-one else thinking about royalty that much. Thailand are cuckoo for King Rama IX. 

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:19 | 6093673 BoPeople
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We in the US have many failings, but not being able to get rid of useless parasites is not one of them. LOL ... wait, I take that back. Our government is full of them and we do not even have royalty.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:42 | 6094496 smacker
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Urgh! I thought Obola was a queen (!!!)

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:09 | 6094083 HonkyShogun
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The UK, Thailand; you are in good company, my man.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:01 | 6093621 shovelhead
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After 400 years, you can drop the Jr.

Nobody gets confused.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:22 | 6093684 NuYawkFrankie
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re By the way, it's Queen Elizabeth II.

Not if you're Scottish.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:37 | 6093522 QQQBall
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+100 on the Headline. LMAO!

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:38 | 6093525 Monetas
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ISIS didn't want association with Boko Haram .... Semitic and Aryan Muslims don't like nig-ers .... they consider them slaves !

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:39 | 6093533 Dathedr
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And imagine how the world would have fully shown it if it wasn't forced to use dollar currency as "middleman" in settling international trade deals or forced to take loads of dollar loans in order to pay for OPEC oil, hm? ehehe

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:39 | 6093536 Mike Honcho
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Can't blame him, I've heard Mr. Ed sound more intelligent off the cuff than Czar Barry.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:39 | 6093538 I woke up
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What goes thru the narcissist in chiefs head when things like this happen?

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:45 | 6093559 Fukushima Fricassee
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Nothing because head is empty , but Reggies dick goes into his mouth.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:39 | 6093539 I Write Code
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Hamad don't golf, but we think he should.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:42 | 6093546 Fukushima Fricassee
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Fuck that stupid queer fool. That's what I always said from day one.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:42 | 6093551 anachronism
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This is the way that frat boys get even.

They don't like Obama's handling of theSyrian Civil War and they don't like his talking with -not just to- the Iranians.

Maybe he will start talking with Syria's Assad and will agree to a UN Security Council deal with Iran. That should really send them barking to their harems! 

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:44 | 6093553 Rusputin
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So King Salman says "f off" diplomatically speaking, but I thought the whole Yemen thing was a US-Saudi-Egypt interior design exercise in puppet redecoration?

Hmmm, me thinks we are trying to kill the Petrodollar and eliminate OPEC crude so that the US shale can cash in at the grand casino in Babylon.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:43 | 6093554 wisefool
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Tom Hagen hollywood Scene from "The Godfather"   ?

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:43 | 6093557 medium giraffe
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Ha ha! That's funny....

'becoming'

lol!

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:45 | 6093563 westcott1
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I guess the King did not want to meet with the horses backside.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:48 | 6093569 JR
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The rulers of Saudi Arabia, not the people, are totally corrupted with the US and Israel against Iran. The snub from Saudi King Salman means absolutely nothing. They are in business to work together for Empire and Oil. And, generally, many oil producing countries in the Persian Gulf follow the Saudi lead.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:48 | 6093572 Bay of Pigs
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Maybe they aren't showing up at Camp David because they don't trust the USA leadership and fear for their own lives?

Wouldn't surprise me a bit...

 

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:48 | 6093574 bytebank
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People can only take so much B.S. from one guy. After a while you just tune out. The Russia sack of lies combined with Isis or Isill or Al Queda crap is embarrassing after a while.

Shut up already and fix your own country already!

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:47 | 6093792 Pure Evil
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Are you kidding, we're trying to export our arrogance and incompetence on a global scale.

Lately, that's about the only thing we manufacture anymore.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:48 | 6093575 gcjohns1971
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The system under which Obama campaigned for the US Presidency IN EUROPE...ergo with people who supposedly have not vote in the matter... is the joke.

Obama is the result of the joke.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:48 | 6093577 gdiamond22
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Becoming?

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:48 | 6093578 Dathedr
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Everyone hates Murica. On should start facing the truth at last ffs! Liberal marxist country which is leeching on the rest of the world like a giant fluke! Fucking parasites! Imagine we have to pay for those lazy Muricans in Baltimore, Detroit and elsewhere in Murica who are living on USA gov handouts! We are paying those Murican parasites!

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:13 | 6093657 JR
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It’s not anti-Semitic to say that Marxism has its major emphasis from Jewish ambitions. In America these ambitions and the themes of Marxism are as powerful and intrusive as they were in European Communist governments.

Socialist Marxism in America is leading us to serfdom.

Marx who was Jewish often wrote about the leverage that Jews use to gain power. In 1843 in a critical essay Marx quotes Bruno Bauer:

“The Jew, who is merely tolerated in Vienna for example, determines the fate of the whole Empire by his financial power. The Jew, who may be entirely without rights in the smallest German state, decides the destiny of Europe. While the corporations and guilds exclude the Jew or at least look on him with disfavor, the audacity of industry mocks the obstinacy of Medieval institutions.”

While Jews in Europe often claimed that they needed emancipation, Marx concluded: “In the final analysis, the emancipation of the Jews is the emancipation of mankind from Judaism.”

Jews accuse Marx of anti-Semitism because of comments such as the following:

“What is the profane basis of Judaism? Practical need, self-interest. What is the worldly cult of the Jews? What is his worldly god? Money.

“Very well: then in emancipating itself from huckstering and money, and thus from real and practical Judaism, our age would emancipate itself.”

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:34 | 6093736 Skip
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Preface to the First Paperback Edition PDF

The basic idea is that European groups are highly vulnerable to invasion by strongly collectivist, ethnocentric groups because individualists have less powerful defenses 20 against such groups. The competitive advantage of cohesive, cooperating groups is obvious and is a theme that recurs throughout my trilogy on Judaism. This scenario implies that European peoples are more prone to individualism. Individualist cultures show little emotional attachment to ingroups. Personal goals are paramount, and socialization emphasizes the importance of self-reliance, independence, individual responsibility, and 'finding yourself' (Triandis 1991, 82). Individualists have more positive attitudes toward strangers and outgroup members and are more likely to behave in a pro-social, altruistic manner to strangers. People in individualist cultures are less aware of ingroup/outgroup boundaries and thus do not have highly negative attitudes toward outgroup members. They often disagree with ingroup policy, show little emotional commitment or loyalty to ingroups, and do not have a sense of common fate with other ingroup members. Opposition to outgroups occurs in individualist societies, but the opposition is more 'rational' in the sense that there is less of a tendency to suppose that all of the outgroup members are culpable. Individualists form mild attachments to many groups, while collectivists have an intense attachment and identification to a few ingroups (Triandis 1990, 61). Individualists are therefore relatively ill-prepared for between-group competition so characteristic of the history of Judaism.

From a review of the hardcover edition

Prof. MacDonald devotes many pages to an analysis of The Authoritarian Personality, which was written by Adorno and appeared in 1950. It was part of a series called Studies in Prejudice, produced by the Frankfurt school, which included titles like Anti-Semitism and Emotional Disorder. The Authoritarian Personality was particularly influential because, according to Prof. MacDonald, the American Jewish Committee heavily funded its promotion and because Jewish academics took up its message so enthusiastically.

The book's purpose is to make every group affiliation sound as if it were a sign of mental disorder. Everything from patriotism to religion to family -- and race -- loyalty are signs of a dangerous and defective "authoritarian personality." Because drawing distinctions between different groups is illegitimate, all group loyalties -- even close family ties! -- are "prejudice." As Christopher Lasch has written, the book leads to the conclusion that prejudice "could be eradicated only by subjecting the American people to what amounted to collective psychotherapy -- by treating them as inmates of an insane asylum."
But according to Prof. MacDonald it is precisely the kind of group loyalty, respect for tradition, and consciousness of differences central to Jewish identity that Horkheimer and Adorno described as mental illness in Gentiles. These writers adopted what eventually became a favorite Soviet tactic against dissidents: Anyone whose political views were different from theirs was insane. As Prof. MacDonald explains, the Frankfurt school never criticized or even described Jewish group identity -- only that of Gentiles: "behavior that is critical to Judaism as a successful group evolutionary strategy is conceptualized as pathological in Gentiles."

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 15:38 | 6094200 Redstone
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Intriguing info, Skip. Just ordered the book.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:57 | 6093832 Dathedr
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Why should it be "antisemitic?" Most of Jews today are not Semites, but Caucasian Khazars. There is nothing antisemitic in your sentences nor should you care if there was.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:27 | 6093707 large_wooden_badger
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They turk err jerbs!

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:38 | 6093761 rejected
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Heck,,,, the u.s.a gov is just printing the money to hand out,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, who's paying?

Everyone, when the currency crashes.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:50 | 6093584 ekm1
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Military winning

 

Bank lobby losing

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:56 | 6093602 Bay of Pigs
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Yeah, that's why Obama is sacking all the Generals and Admirals.

You have rocks in your head if you think the Banksters are "losing".

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:16 | 6093666 ekm1
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There hasn't been any sackings since the rebellion at Centcom last year in september

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:26 | 6093702 Dr. Engali
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Ekm can't grasp the fact that the two work hand in hand.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 16:40 | 6094487 ekm1
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They never did work together, never.

Military ruled over bank lobby until 1990 soviet collapse.

 

Then bank lobby took over to..........manage the economy now that soviets collapsed.

Obvious it didn't work out

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:52 | 6093592 surf0766
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"Becoming"

 

thats funny

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:52 | 6093593 economessed
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I would rather meet with a styrofoam cup full of earthworms than have to sit across from the liar in chief. 

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:25 | 6093697 large_wooden_badger
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Better to stare at live bait than a brain dead baiter

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:55 | 6093600 Monetas
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If you are black .... your future with Islam is problematic .... you can be cannon fodder in Jihad .... underwear bomber .... behead cops and old white ladies .... randomly kill Jewish civilians .... but, if or when Islam prevails .... you will be a slave .... it's called the Rodney Dangerfield treatment (no respect) .... Malcom X was clueless !

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:57 | 6093610 tuttisaluti
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I would also rather socializing than war mongering 

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 12:57 | 6093612 gwar5
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Yes, Obama is a joke. But we who know him best called it first.

Dibsies, bitches.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:01 | 6093620 scatha
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These small gestures or moves made in public are manifestations of underlying split between US and Saudis and some other gulf states.  Saudis understand that if they follow blindly US policies they could be isolated from major markets like China and BRICS countries if US sign a "peace" with Iranians. Saudis loaded with military debt and continuous bribing their citizens with enormous subsidies, already sold or bet many years of future oil production while there is practically no diversification of Saudi industry. What worry Saudis is collapse of world demand for the oil as well as most commodities mostly due to devastating weight of debt payments of over leveraged consumers including in China. That's spell doom for Saudis so they decided to destroy western oil market and monopolize it. The latest palace coup seems to indicate that Saudis are in turmoil seeing foggy future.

Saudis no longer net buying US treasures they are selling them, which accelerates dedollatrization which seems inevitable.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:03 | 6093626 Danielius
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Can anyone report news without bias?  Looks like not.  Ideas anyone?  

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:06 | 6093630 Arthur Schopenhauer
Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:06 | 6093634 1stepcloser
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who wouldn't rather meet a horse instead of a jackass

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:07 | 6093635 Pancho de Villa
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This POTUS is a 'community organizer', Not a Statesman. What did you expect?

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:22 | 6093682 large_wooden_badger
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Unfortunately, I agree with your statement Pancho, and I fully expect a world community in flames in 3... 2... 1....

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:07 | 6093637 Return of 20-20
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Obama can't become irrelevant or a joke for the simple reason he controls the levers of US military power combined with executive orders and a balless congress he can do anything.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 14:10 | 6093879 Amy G. Dala
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Hm, controls the military.  From the "yes men" at flag rank down to PFC/Seaman, they hate his guts.  They don't trust him, never have, and anybody who has given him honest counsel have been relieved of command.  I don't think he spends much time contemplating how little confidence "his" military has in his ability to command.   There has been tremendous sacrifice made by the uniformed services on his behalf, and they are seething.  Then you have a majority of republican governors, and they all have their own little armies, and they hate Obama's guts too.

Calling General Sisi?

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:11 | 6093638 tony wilson and...
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all these kings are jewisher mi6 cia mossad projects.
obama is orthodox jewisher

camoron and his wifey are jewisher royalty
inter blood wranglings tis all.

what matters is the endless firing and dropping of depleted uranium bombs missiles in and around muslim and christian arabia.
who dies is all that matters who is getting scattered to the wind.
kaos slave and live organ harvesting via turkey and tel aviv.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:20 | 6093678 Monetas
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You, Sir .... are an Orthodox Joke !

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:09 | 6093644 SmallerGovNow2
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BECOMING a joke???  Get real...  Fucking clown from day one...

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:11 | 6093650 pine_marten
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The world's most dangerous joke......

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:12 | 6093654 Salzburg1756
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A horse a horse my kingdom for a horse,

but not for a pavement ape.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:17 | 6093669 Monetas
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You will never get a handle .... on the enigma negro .... until you recognize .... he is a Muslim !

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:51 | 6093808 Quinvarius
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Yep.  If you start from Muslim, the rest falls into place.  He isn't doing random stupid stuff. 

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:20 | 6093677 large_wooden_badger
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Dear Obama,

Why the long face?

Sincerely,

The World

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:23 | 6093686 HandyCrapper
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I hate niggers. Especially when they bow to sand niggers.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:25 | 6093696 hoist the bs flag
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"Meets Horse Instead"... Kerry is there too? cool

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:26 | 6093704 lasvegaspersona
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The king is meeting Kerry (or a different horse?)

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:27 | 6093708 loveyajimbo
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Bath House Barry is known to be a good judge of stallions too... he has had many stretch his muzzy exhaust pipe.

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:29 | 6093713 BiteMeBO
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'Global joke' is on us folks.    

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:31 | 6093722 MFL8240
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If being a joke was the only pronlem we would have none.  This man is a fraud, a liar and is detroying my country annd I want him out!

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:32 | 6093723 European American
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Can we finally just start the revolution and remove the mulatto, now? The suspense is killing me. I mean, isn't it long overdue or have we become a collective of masochists?

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 13:35 | 6093739 rejected
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Which Demopublican would you recommend?

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 14:55 | 6093944 European American
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Here is what I recommend. The mulatto is a traitor. THe mulatto is the president. TIme to make an example. A very harsh example. Remember what the ruler of N.Korea did yesterday to one of NKs the top military advisors? (And no, the advisor wasn't executed for sleeping on the job. That's what the Zionist/NSA/CIA media wants the masses to believe.) Obama needs to be legally removed and punished, severely, so that the rest of his crime syndicate, in office, top to bottom, experiences the visual effects on them. Then, I don't give a flying fuck who is in office next. If they commit a crime, no matter how small, then off with their head too. 

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