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Obama Meets with McChrystal in Copenhagen
October 02, 2009 9:00 AM
ABC News' Yunji de Nies and Sunlen Miller report:
In a surprise and secretly coordinated meeting, President Obama and Gen. Stanley McChrystal had a 25 minute meeting on Air Force One today to discuss Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Shortly before departing Copenhagen, Denmark, the two held their first face-to-face meeting since May while Air Force One was on the tarmac ready to fly back to Washington, D.C.
McChrystal, Obama’s top Afghanistan commander, had been in London giving a speech yesterday and flew to Copenhagen specifically to meet President Obama.
On Wednesday, McChrystal participated in the president’s three hour national security council meeting via secured video conference from Afghanistan.
McChrystal left Air Force One after meeting with the president. Aides say the general will return to Afghanistan Saturday. President Obama is en route back to Washington and will land early this afternoon.
-- Yunji de Nies and Sunlen Miller
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“We closed our News Bureaus around the world and punditry substitutes for correspondents. The media and their partisanship is useless to those of us who want unfiltered news.”
A Sacred Heart University poll found that Fox News was, by far, the LEAST trusted news organization. Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly said: “For doing the study, the folks at Sacred Heart are patriots.”
Posted by: WWW | Oct 5, 2009 11:11:14 AM
....thank God Chicago was bounced quickly in Copeenhagen so the POTUS could have a FULL 25 MINUTES TO MEET WITH HIS "COMMANDER ON THE FIELD."
I am so tired of the Presidency being a job where on-the-job training seems to be available to anyone who applies.
Posted by: justj joey | Oct 5, 2009 11:04:39 AM
We closed our News Bureaus around the world and punditry substitutes for correspondents. The media and their partisanship is useless to those of us who want unfiltered news.
Posted by: Constant Gina | Oct 5, 2009 8:25:28 AM
That time with McChrystal might have been actually spent chewing the General out for going public.
Posted by: drjohn | Oct 5, 2009 8:08:15 AM
THE WHITE HOUSE HAS BEEN TOTALLY TRAINING CERTER FOR OBAMA & RAMBO EMMANUEL. HOW SUCH PRESIDENT OF USA CAN HAVE TOP PRIORITY MEETING at Copenhagen
where failed to bid to be hosted the game, 2016 !!!!!! Obama has no idea at all for safe of American.
Posted by: jr-ny | Oct 3, 2009 9:19:44 PM
Nothing but another photo-op - the only reason he saw the guy at all was to blunt criticism that he hadn't spoken with him in months. A 25 minute conversation ......is that a joke, or what? What an in-depth conversation that must have been.
Posted by: Terry | Oct 3, 2009 5:11:18 AM
Posted by: Fascist Hyena | Oct 2, 2009 12:57:27 PM
_________________________
posting comments from news agency blog sites is not "news". just opinion.
No one's going to enlighten you, nor question your position...being one of those who are "always right, but frequently mislead"
have a great life.
Posted by: Conserva Tiff | Oct 2, 2009 2:52:03 PM
A British perspective from the UK Daily Mail:
"Barack Obama has been humiliated on the world stage after the International Olympic Committee rejected his very personal bid for the 2016 Olympic Games to be hosted in his hometown of Chicago."
Humiliated. Worse than Carter.
Posted by: Fascist Hyena | Oct 2, 2009 12:57:27 PM
Did Obama really think he could diminish the US, badmouthing it endlessly and then entirely on the strength of his own superman ego bring home the Olympics?
Asked and answered.
Posted by: drjohn | Oct 2, 2009 12:44:16 PM
It looks like the IOC let Obama know exactly what they thought of him and his presidency. NIX.
It appears that Obama does not understand the Europeans any better than he does the Americans. It's hard being green.
Posted by: SjB | Oct 2, 2009 12:32:44 PM
In addressing the General Assembly, Obama actually said, “No one nation can . . . dominate another nation.” That adolescent mindlessness was followed with the declaration that “alignments of nations rooted in the cleavages of a long-gone Cold War” in fact “make no sense in an interconnected world.” NATO, our alliances with Japan and South Korea, our umbrella over Taiwan, are senseless? What do our allies think when they hear such nonsense?
Posted by: Fascist Hyena | Oct 2, 2009 12:29:09 PM
Looks like Rahm is going to have a bit of a problem coming up with those "good tickets" for Obama's critics.
Posted by: Fascist Hyena | Oct 2, 2009 12:28:25 PM
"I have a couple far left friends who declared they could no longer be Americans if Bush was elected to a second term. They now live in Argentina and haven't been back for a visit since 2006. I respect them a great deal. I do not respect your hypocritical anti-Americanism."
Posted by: JWH539
You respect someone who cuts and runs and don't respect someone who stays to fight for what they believe in? I think you've got that "anti-Americanism" backwards.
Posted by: Rican | Oct 2, 2009 12:18:53 PM
Obama Meets with McChrystal in Copenhagen:
Well at least he got something accomplished.
Posted by: 'Un-Amercican' | Oct 2, 2009 11:50:48 AM
From Yahoo News:
"If laid-off workers who have settled for part-time work or have given up looking for new jobs are included, the unemployment rate rose to 17 percent, the highest on records dating from 1994."
Obviously what we need is another stimulus from the Apollo Alliance and unemployment will go to 25%.
Posted by: drjohn | Oct 2, 2009 11:49:01 AM
Well,maybe the quality of his conversation with the general will have been better than the IOC-Chicago eliminated in the first round.What a waste of time;what a complete joke.
Posted by: Nephron | Oct 2, 2009 11:42:53 AM
One wonders what Valerie Jarrett will do now. Her company has run Grove Parc into the ground and now there's no Olympics to pad her wallet.
Posted by: drjohn | Oct 2, 2009 11:42:17 AM
Joe 6 Pack would probably be stunned to learn that polls commissioned by Fox News are conducted by the firm of Opinion Dynamics, whose results compare favorably with those of Gallup, CNN, USA Today and the others.
Fox News is no more or less unbiased than, say, CBS or NBC. Its polling organisation is professional and unbiased.
Posted by: Fascist Hyena | Oct 2, 2009 11:42:08 AM
You are under a very false impression.
You have absolutely no idea of what you claim to know. Please explain the 4th and 5th tours of duty within two years.
Your oversimplistic, faux-flag waving defense is without any credibility.
Posted by: g | Oct 2, 2009 11:13:13 AM
Yeah I do - I come from a military family, so I do have some idea of what it takes and what is involved. Obama needs to either sign off on more troops or have the courage to put forth an exit plan, instead of this stalling that puts good people in harms way.
Faux-flag waving defense? Oh brother...
Posted by: Bryan in OK | Oct 2, 2009 11:41:25 AM
on Drudge:
"THE EGO HAS LANDED"
ROFLMAO
Posted by: drjohn | Oct 2, 2009 11:40:43 AM
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