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mfcorey1

(11,001 posts) Thu Dec 4, 2014, 03:38 AM Dec 2014

Hungary summons US envoy after McCain calls PM 'dictator'

Budapest (AFP) - Hungary summoned the United States' top diplomat in the country on Wednesday to protest comments by US Senator John McCain branding Prime Minister Viktor Orban a "neo-fascist dictator."

During Senate deliberations on new ambassadors in Washington on Tuesday, McCain described Hungary as "a nation that is on the verge of ceding its sovereignty to a neo-fascist dictator getting in bed with (Russian President) Vladimir Putin."

Budapest hit back on Wednesday, with Levente Magyar, state secretary for foreign affairs, telling the US charge d'affaires: "The Hungarian government finds it unacceptable and firmly rejects Senator John McCain's comments on the Hungarian prime minister and on Hungary's relationship with Russia."

The foreign ministry also said the Hungarian embassy in Washington was in contact with McCain's staff.

McCain, a former US presidential contender, later told AFP in Washington he was not concerned about how his remarks were being taken by the Hungarian government, and that he urged Orban to change during a trip to Hungary last January.

"Obviously he has chosen not to," McCain said.

http://news.yahoo.com/hungary-summons-us-envoy-over-mccains-dictator-pm-190511445.html

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Hungary summons US envoy after McCain calls PM 'dictator' (Original Post) mfcorey1 Dec 2014 OP

Thanks mfcorey.. Cha Dec 2014 #1

Yeah, way to set up the ambassador you're confirming, by pissing off her host government Recursion Dec 2014 #2

All conservatives do is embarrass our country on the world stage Cali_Democrat Dec 2014 #3

But we're envied for our "freedom" nt LiberalElite Dec 2014 #7

Uh, you do know that Hungary has a extreme RW government, right? Odin2005 Dec 2014 #8

Thank God that fool lost in '08 brush Dec 2014 #4

Wow, I agree with Gramps for once! Odin2005 Dec 2014 #5

Is McCain now LiberalElite Dec 2014 #6

Orban's a far-right authoritarian, not a 'neo-fascist dictator'. pampango Dec 2014 #9

Cha

(297,494 posts)

1. Thanks mfcorey..

Reply to mfcorey1 (Original post)

Thu Dec 4, 2014, 03:52 AM

Dec 2014

Recursion

(56,582 posts)

2. Yeah, way to set up the ambassador you're confirming, by pissing off her host government

Reply to mfcorey1 (Original post)

Thu Dec 4, 2014, 04:19 AM

Dec 2014

Good job, McCain!

Cali_Democrat

(30,439 posts)

3. All conservatives do is embarrass our country on the world stage

Reply to mfcorey1 (Original post)

Thu Dec 4, 2014, 04:24 AM

Dec 2014

From the Darren Wilson racist bigots to politicians like Bush and McCain.

Just embarrassing really.

LiberalElite

(14,691 posts)

7. But we're envied for our "freedom" nt

Reply to Cali_Democrat (Reply #3)

Thu Dec 4, 2014, 08:45 AM

Dec 2014

Odin2005

(53,521 posts)

8. Uh, you do know that Hungary has a extreme RW government, right?

Reply to Cali_Democrat (Reply #3)

Thu Dec 4, 2014, 08:46 AM

Dec 2014

When you are so right-wing that even a Republican is calling you out you have a problem

brush

(53,815 posts)

4. Thank God that fool lost in '08

Reply to mfcorey1 (Original post)

Thu Dec 4, 2014, 05:53 AM

Dec 2014

With that hair-trigger temper of his, his attention-whore ways and proclivity to shoot of at the mouth, he might have triggered WWlll.

Odin2005

(53,521 posts)

5. Wow, I agree with Gramps for once!

Reply to mfcorey1 (Original post)

Thu Dec 4, 2014, 08:43 AM

Dec 2014

LiberalElite

(14,691 posts)

6. Is McCain now

Reply to mfcorey1 (Original post)

Thu Dec 4, 2014, 08:44 AM

Dec 2014

going to call for invading Hungary?

pampango

(24,692 posts)

9. Orban's a far-right authoritarian, not a 'neo-fascist dictator'.

Reply to mfcorey1 (Original post)

Thu Dec 4, 2014, 09:04 AM

Dec 2014

Orban wants to build 'illiberal state' (like Russia and China)

Hungary leader Viktor Orban has said he wants to build an illiberal state based on national foundations, citing Russia and China as examples.

The experience of the financial crisis showed that “liberal democratic states cannot remain globally competitive.”

"Today, the world tries to understand systems which are not Western, not liberal, maybe not even democracies yet they are successful" he said, and mentioned Singapore, China, India, Russia and Turkey as examples.

He said that these efforts were being obstructed by civil society groups and that NGO workers are political activists representing foreign interests. Budapest recently got into a political dispute with Norway after the Hungarian authorities raided the offices of NGOs involved in administrating aid from the Nordic country. Orban's goverment had accused the Norwegian Fund of supporting opposition political groups.

http://euobserver.com/political/125128

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