barack obama is not our friend - inquirer

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Analysis
Snubs show Obama is no RP friend


In the first blush of victory, US President-elect Barack Obama accepted congratulations from nine presidents and prime ministers and returned their calls. President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, one of the numerous early callers, was not one of the chosen few.


All are leaders of democracies known as important allies of the United States. Two are Asians—Aso and Lee; one is leader of the centerpiece of US policy in the Middle East, Olmert of Israel; Calderon heads Mexico, the most strategic US neighbor in Latin America; and the rest are leaders of Europe’s most important democracies.


Obama has barely a couple of years experience as junior senator from Illinois and has only a brushing acquaintance with foreign policy. It’s very likely the Philippines struck him as just a speck on the map.
And so, if his team received an early call from Ms Arroyo congratulating him for his election, one of his ignorant staff could have asked: “Where is the Philippines?”


RP not in charmed circle
Kenney said the Philippines would continue to be a “strong ally” of the United States, and acknowledged that the Philippines increasingly had a “great regional role to play.”
She said that when Ms Arroyo put in a call to Obama, his team told her that the President’s call was one of “the first and most gracious calls,” and they were taking down names and numbers and they would “call back when they get a chance.”
They never did.
Kenney said it was not likely that Ms Arroyo would be able to meet Obama when she goes to the United States next week to attend a UN function.
“I think [an Obama-Arroyo] meeting is unlikely because the president-elect, as I understand it, is not yet meeting with foreign leaders. He is busy assembling his Cabinet,” the US ambassador said.


The sidelining of the Arroyo call gave a glimpse of the importance of the Philippines to the United States at a moment of change of administration.
It is clear that the Philippines stands on the outer perimeter of US concerns in world affairs.


The first telephone conversations reveal the Philippines is not within the charmed circles of the Obama administration. It is a leper outside looking in.
It is imperative that Manila should rearrange its priorities vis-à-vis Washington.

Obama is not our friend.



1. snub tayo ni obama. samantala maraming bumoto sa kanya mga phil-ams
2. Hindi tayo charm country para sa kanya.
3. Ni hindi nga alam ng cabinet staff nya ang philippines . di ba sila nanonood ng boxing?
4. Tinawagan ni arroyo pero nilagyan lng sya sa waiting list.
5. tinawagan pa tayo "leper outside looking in"




Baket ganun tingin sa atin ni obama ?
kasi . . for some reason mababa tingin nya sa country natin dahil sa mga namumuno nito
puro pagnanakaw lang ang alam. puro salita. at sarili lang iniisip hindi ang buong sambayanan.
ayaw ni obama mahawa. in short. or baka hindi karespeto respeto mga leaders natin..