Ouch. Another ‘historic first’ for our ‘esteemed leader’.
Tough day for our narcissist-in-chief. Foreign leaders know he’s a lame duck, and have stopped even pretending to blow sunshine up his ass. Yesterday’s snub was bad. Today’s was worse.
Remember those patronizing speeches about how Obama has repaired America’s badly damaged international reputation? Keep that in mind as you read this:
President Obama has canceled a meeting with Rodrigo Duterte, the hardline president of the Philippines after he called him a ‘son of a bitch’.
Duterte, dubbed ‘The Punisher’ had earlier warned Obama not to ask about extrajudicial killings during a planned meeting in Laos or ‘I will swear at you’.
More than 2,000 suspected drug dealers and users have been killed since Duterte launched a war on drugs after taking office on June 30 this year.
…But Duterte warned that he is a leader of a sovereign country and is answerable only to the Filipino people.
‘Who is he to confront me?’ he said, adding that the Philippines had not received an apology for misdeeds committed during its U.S. colonization.
‘I am a president of a sovereign state and we have long ceased to be a colony. I do not have any master except the Filipino people, nobody but nobody.
‘You must be respectful. Do not just throw questions. Putang ina I will swear at you in that forum,’ he said, using the Tagalog phrase for son of a bitch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61vIzt-n8uM
The Guardian rendered the word a little differently:
“You must be respectful. Do not just throw away questions and statements. Son of a whore, I will curse you in that forum,” Duterte was quoted by as saying by Agence-France Presse. “We will be wallowing in the mud like pigs if you do that to me.”
International man of diplomacy that he is, Obama raised the issue. He was called a bad name… and poor baby, Obama canceled the meeting over it.
No word on whether Obama answered, ‘I know you are but what am I?’
To be fair, that’s not REALLY far off from what AMERICANS already call Obama.
