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Obama calls off meeting with Philippine leader after 'whore' jibe


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2016 Sep 6, 11:14am   3,623 views  10 comments

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US President Barack Obama has cancelled a meeting with controversial Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who had earlier called him a "son of a whore".

Mr Duterte was responding to the US president's promise to raise the issue of drug-related extra-judicial killings in the Philippines at their meeting.

The Philippine leader, known for his colourful language, has insulted prominent figures before, but this time it has had diplomatic consequences.

He has now said he regrets the remark.

"While the immediate cause was my strong comments to certain press questions that elicited concern and distress, we also regret that it came across as a personal attack on the US president," a statement by his office said.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37281821

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1   lostand confused   2016 Sep 6, 11:42am  

Shouldn't he just suck it up and blame it on US cultural imperialism?

2   turtledove   2016 Sep 6, 11:54am  

lostand confused says

Shouldn't he just suck it up and blame it on US cultural imperialism?

I'm still too in awe over his diplomacy skills.

3   Tenpoundbass   2016 Sep 6, 12:52pm  

The funny thing is if Duterte was an Immigrant in America or most EU countries everyone would be blaming them selves for what he said.

4   Shaman   2016 Sep 6, 1:02pm  

Obama was just upset because the Filipino killed a lot of his Muslim brothers. Official White House policy is to promote Islamic invasion to confound the evil white people with their guns and their God.

5   RWSGFY   2016 Sep 6, 1:40pm  

Our Great Leader has become a fucking doormat: Russians hack his party's servers, Chinese don't give him a fucking ladder to climb down from his plane, Filipinos call him dirty names - and nothing happens. Not a fucking thing.

6   Rew   2016 Sep 6, 2:56pm  

The diplomacy the Trump supporters are looking for starts with a good trash talking? Is that it? (@Apoc' you should consider making a run in 2020.)

Shouldn't you Trump supporters hate the Philippines? They have a strong culture of immigration/migration and world trade?

Obama bumped them from the schedule to go meet with South Korea. Good move in my mind. Philippines is a lot of tough talk about leaving the UN right now. They have a nativist authoritarian in power. Grrrrrreat. See how you do little island nation with weakening alliances in the 21st century.

Once enough of us separate ties toward the nativist route, we will again feel like we don't have much to lose, and the memory of war is so far from most people's mind (5% serve) that we will willfully seek stupid conflict. WWI started for an amazing reason : nations wanted to fight, and they thought they would be fighting a 19th century style war.

7   Rew   2016 Sep 6, 3:35pm  

DieBankOfAmericaPhukkingDie says

Obamfuck should have appeared packing a roscoe and wasted the fucker on TV, cracked a Ballantine and taken a nice long Ballantine-Ale piss on his face while Michelle lit his Pall Mall for him and squeezed his balls like a normal wife.

You are making a run for 2020 ... aren't you!

8   RWSGFY   2016 Sep 6, 4:53pm  

Rew says

Obama bumped them from the schedule

Whom? Chinese or Putin?

9   Tenpoundbass   2016 Sep 6, 6:39pm  

The Chinese are now saying that Obama's crew didn't request a staircase for their Jet, so none was provided.

You got to love no matter where you go, there's always that one stickler employee who refuses to do anything if it's not by the book regardless who you are.

"No hell no, he didn't request steps. Do you know the hell I'll catch if I request a step ladder that didn't have the proper paperwork? I'm not putting my ass on the line for that American I dont' care who he is."

Then I'm sure he slapped a subordinate on the head who promply postrated before him.

10   Shaman   2016 Sep 6, 7:09pm  

Filipinos are ok. I have both a brother and a sister in law who are Filipino. They never try to blow anyone up or enforce sharia law, and they are Christian. So they are good, and generally hard working contributing folks.

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