China snub of Obama-news US media kept to themselves

• UPDATE: Unfortunately, it's worse than this. At Copenhagen everyone knew Obama was being snubbed and quite publicly so. (Hillary was there and will remember every detail).
  
• I doubt Obama has ever been treated this way in his entire life. The US media in criminal silence will keep this crucial news away from Obama's employer, the American people. via "Obama the Party Crasher," 12/23/09, WT
  
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• "Why did Chinese premier Wen Jiabao choose to publicly humiliate Barack Obama at Copenhagen?

In their eyes, and those of much of the world, he has lost face, and with it, power and influence.

• While getting widespread play overseas, this story has been kept very quiet by our disinterested, nonpartisan media " (Joke) continuing. "(I haven't seen it mentioned in any major U.S. outlet).

After promising to meet the Messiah at 7:00 p.m., Premier Wen stiffed him in favor of a meeting with the leaders of India, South Africa, and Brazil.

• Rather than wait, a no-doubt infuriated Obama stalked into the room in question and demanded, "Are you ready to see me, Premier Wen?" No word on Wen's reaction, though he did submit to a discussion on the spot that evidently sealed the release of the immortal and glorious Copenhagen Quasi-Agreement on Climate Change.

So with Barack Obama, we've reached the point where the leader of record of the most powerful state in history has become a man you can casually stand up....

• Then there's the deep aura of unseriousness that Obama has generated around himself. Though essentially incalculable, this factor is undeniable and will grow in importance and impact as time passes.

But there's one event in particular that very likely played a part -- the fact that, only a few weeks before, Obama publicly and notoriously bowed to the emperor of Japan.

• Japan and China have a lengthy history, very little of which can be termed benign. They have always been rivals, often acting at cross purposes and usually at sword's point. But the past century of Sino-Japanese relations has been little short of horrendous....

Which only goes to underline the reason why diplomatic protocol exists in the first place -- to exclude through ritual actions all possibilities that error, misunderstanding, or personal pique might interfere with matters of state. Obama has yet to learn this. His insistence on winging it, on reinventing established practice on his own terms, is potentially

• far more than simply embarrassing."...

from American thinker article, "Obama's Lost Face," by J.R. Dunn, 12/27/09

• via Lucianne.com; photo getty, last day Cop15.