Romney ‘Accepted Instructions from Netanyahu’ to Cancel Meeting

[Tx4obama]

Romney ‘Accepted Instructions from Netanyahu’ to Cancel Meeting

Wow. I can’t type fast enough to keep up with Romney’s yellow jello tour. Today, Mitt Romney, who doesn’t apologize for America but does let the British tell him to apologize, let the Israeli Prime Minister boss him around. Romney had a 1:30 meeting with MK Shelly Yacimovich, the leader of the Labor party, that he canceled at the last minute after meeting with Netanyahu.

Romney can’t even meet with the opposition? MEET, not agree. Meet. It’s protocol to meet the opposition. It’s called statesmanship.

Haaretz reported that “Romney apparently accepts instructions from Netanyahu” (are these the kinds of headlines we want to see about our President?):

Today it has become clear that the two are more than just friends. Romney apparently accepts instructions from Netanyahu who succeeded in getting him to cancel a scheduled and meticulously planned meeting with MK Shelly Yacimovich, the leader of the Labor party…

Herzog (Labor faction head Yitzhak (Buzi) Herzog) was dumbfounded to hear of the cancellation on two hours’ notice. He said that Romney was “intentionally misguided by political elements that were unsettled by the steady strengthening of Yacimovich and her transformation into the only alternative to the prime minister.” Circles close to Yacimovich said it clearly: “This is the crude hand of Netanyahu and his people against the background of the disagreement between him and Yacimovich over the economic measures his government is about to adopt.”

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Full article here: http://www.politicususa.com/romney-accepted-instructions-netanyahu-cancel-meeting-labor.html

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. We will be apologizing for this creep for years to come

[Ezlivin]

4. No we won't

We'll have the same amnesia about him as he does Ann's horse.

[Fozzledick]

5. Hopefully not.

With any luck he'll be all but forgotten a year from now.

[Tx4obama]

7. But that's what we said about Palin ...

and we know how that worked out

[Fozzledick]

8. Yeah, but we knew we couldn't trust her to just go away...

(Apologies to those who have seen this before - I just can't resist a cue to bring it back.)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x336276

[Raine]

9. Not electing that lunkhead is the best way for the US to apologize for inflicting him on the

countries he's going to and making an ass out of himself.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

10. Let's hope that we only have to apologize until he is defeated in November.

[madaboutharry]

2. This is very bad.

Romney is also getting pushed around by the neocon Likudnik leftovers from the Bush Administration. These are the same assholes who got us into war with Iraq.

[Tx4obama]

3. Minutes before Netanyahu meeting, Romney cancels on Yacimovich

Minutes before Netanyahu meeting, Romney cancels on Yacimovich

Circles close to former opposition leader Yacimovich say meeting cancelled over disagreements surrounding the economic measures the Netanyahu government is about to adopt.

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The meeting was due to take place today, at 1:30 P.M., at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. There were still contacts this morning between Romney's media staff and Tal Alexandrovitch Segev, Yacimovich's media adviser. Yacimovich and Herzog, who was due to accompany her, prepared themselves to meet the man who might, in a matter of months, be elected president of the United States.

And then Romney went into a meeting with Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's Bureau in Jerusalem. Minutes before the meeting, the candidate's staff contacted Herzog to inform him that the meeting had regrettably been cancelled, “for reasons of protocol.” Herzog and Yacimovich have no doubts: Netanyahu, or his people, didn't approve of the Yacimovich meeting and pressured Romney to cancel it – and succeeded.

Herzog was dumbfounded to hear of the cancellation on two hours' notice. He said that Romney was “intentionally misguided by political elements that were unsettled by the steady strengthening of Yacimovich and her transformation into the only alternative to the prime minister.” Circles close to Yacimovich said it clearly: “This is the crude hand of Netanyahu and his people against the background of the disagreement between him and Yacimovich over the economic measures his government is about to adopt.”

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http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/minutes-before-netanyahu-meeting-romney-cancels-on-yacimovich-1.454425

[charlie]

6. Obama should make him register as a foreign agent

It's clear he's more interested in being Bibi's turd polisher than president of a sovereign nation.

This is an extraordinarily dumb move, even for a teflon-brained Gooper mouthpiece.

Can't wait to see what he'll do for the hat trick. Maybe set fire to Warsaw.

[spanone]

11. romney is in waaay over his head and his handlers are incompetent.

let's see how the media wraps up this diplomatic fiasco

[malaise]

12. These ignorant ReTHUG morons have no understanding about

protocol, diplomacy or basic standards. They are allowing their ALEC and neo-con driven ideological bullshit to destroy all relationships.
They really believe they rule the world and no one else matters.