President Obama to meet with David Cameron, Conservative Party leader and on course to be next PM

jefferson_dem

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Sat Mar-28-09 03:09 PM
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President Obama to meet with David Cameron, Conservative Party leader and on course to be next PM

Coup for David Cameron - meeting with Barack Obama on Wednesday
Posted By: Toby Harnden at Mar 28, 2009 at 15:48:53

It appears that President Barack Obama can read the polls and see that the writing is on the wall for Gordon Brown. The White House has just confirmed that President Obama will meet David Cameron, on course to succeed Brown as Prime Minister next year, in London on Wednesday.

Denis McDonough, Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications, said during a press conference call that Mr Obama's first full day in the British capital will include bilaterals with Prime Minister Gordon Brown, President Dmitry Medvedev of Russia and President Hu Jintao of China.

He added that there would also be "important meetings with the Right Honourable David Cameron, leader of the Conservative pary, and with Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II".

The next day, the day of the Group of 20 meeting, Obama will have bilaterals with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India, President Lee Myung-bak of South Korea and King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.

This is very good company for Cameron to be in - and he can hardly be disappointed that his meeting was mentioned in the same breath as that of the Queen. As far as can be gleaned from Obama's programme, Cameron will be the only opposition leader to get a one-on-one meeting with the president during his eight-day trip.

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http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/toby_harnden/blog/2009/03/28/coup_for_david_cameron__meeting_with_barack_obama_on_wednesday

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muriel_volestrangler

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Sat Mar-28-09 03:16 PM
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1. What a surprise - the Tory-supporting Telegraph fails to mention the 'lightweight' comment

which Obama made after their previous meeting:

According to tomorrow's New Statesman, Barack Obama was unimpressed by his encounter with David Cameron earlier this year and commented: "What a lightweight!"

According to James Macintyre's report, Cameron's attempt to stress his pro-American and Eurosceptic credentials did not meet with Obama's approval. According to Macintyre's diplomatic sources, the Democratic candidate was "distinctly unimpressed" and labelled Cameron a lightweight.

Macintyre notes that 48 hours earlier Obama had delivered a speech in Berlin stressing "the importance of Europe's role in our security and our future".

Following the meeting with Cameron, Obama apparently asked officials for more information on Tory Euroscepticism. Macintyre also speculates that Cameron's support for the Iraq war � which Obama opposed � did not help the relationship either.

The report is sure to dismay Cameron and damage his attempts to portray himself as a world-class statesman � not to mention relations between Obama's incoming administration and a possible future Tory government.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2008/dec/03/obama-cameron-lightweight

I suppose getting any meeting at all counts as a 'coup' after that.

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jefferson_dem

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Sat Mar-28-09 03:18 PM
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2. Important clarification. Thanks.

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