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Title: Barack Obama cancels meeting after Philippines president calls him 'son of a whore'
Category: World
Posted By: N_Fiddledog
Date: 2016-09-05 20:48:24

[N_Fiddledog]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/ ... -son-whore

"Barack Obama has cancelled a meeting with the president of the Philippines after Rodrigo Duterte appeared to call him a "son of a whore".

The move followed a warning from Duterte to the US president to keep off the subject of extrajudicial killings in his country's brutal drug war when they were due to meet on Tuesday at a regional summit in Laos. Duterte told a press conference that Obama "must be respectful".

The firebrand president was answering a reporter's question about how he intended to explain the extrajudicial killings to Obama, before boarding a plane to Laos for the Association of South-east Asian Nations summit.

"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."

When his comments reached the Obama camp, the US president initially said he was asking his staff to find out whether holding the meeting as scheduled would be useful.

"What I've instructed my team to do is to talk to their Philippine counterparts to find out, is if this in fact a time where we can have some constructive, productive conversations," Obama said at a news conference at the end of a G20 summit in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou.

"Obviously the Filipino people are some of our closest friends and allies and the Philippines is a treaty ally of ours. But I always want to make sure that if I'm having a meeting that it's actually productive and we're getting something done."

But hours later the decision was made to cancel, a White House spokesman said. Instead, Obama will meet with South Korean president Park Geun-hye."

[Freakinoldguy]

I'm no psychic but, even I can see a drastic reduction in US aide to the Philippines.

[Thanos]

Yeah, suddenly the US Navy is conspicuously not in the immediate vicinity to run interference for the Filipinos when the Chinese send a scouting expedition ashore to raise their flag. Oh, well......

[xerxes]

I wouldn't be surprised if this guy has his own show on FOX news by the end of the week.

[Thanos]

This is what shooting from the hip and having no filter looks like when it gets power in it's hands. Apparently he's backed off and semi-apologized, mostly likely after being told the US and it's $11 billion per year that props up the Philippines is kinda important to their national survival. Go figure.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

Meh, the Obamas are assholes anyway. Funny how his wife routinely whinges about slavery while he's working on a trade deal that will essentially globalize slavery.

[BartSimpson]

$1:

"Barack Obama has cancelled a meeting with the president of the Philippines after Rodrigo Duterte appeared to call him a "son of a whore".

I'm sure Putin and practically every other world leader has said worse than that but at least Duterte is up front about it.

[martin14]

Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:

I'm no psychic but, even I can see a drastic reduction in US aide to the Philippines.

Meh, he's gone in a few months, and won't do anything before that.

So who cares what Obama says.

[BartSimpson]

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