SINGAPORE, ASIA — US President Barack Obama shows every intent of mastering Arm Control Photo-ops (ACP-op) over Singapore’s PM Lee Hsien Loong, as seen here in our photo at the left. Once officially documented, Obama plans to continue on with the rest of the Asian heads of state. His final mastery will be the long awaited ACP-op with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
“My neocon detractors in Washington say this ACP-op is insanity,” said the President. “They say I am just doing the same thing over and over with the same outcome. I say keeping Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese Nobel Peace Prize laureate, under house arrest for most of the last two decades —that’s insane. They’re spinning their wheels here. They might as well release her.”
The President has taken his personal ACP-op campaign to the 21-nation Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, referred to as the Pacific Rim Conference. He will focus on individual ACP-ops Sunday with Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia, and eventually he will have his ACP-op with Dmitry Medvedev.
Obama plans additional hemisphere-neutral ACP-ops with Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd; Mexican President Felipe Calderon; Denmark’s prime minister, Lars Loekke Rasmussen; as well as the afor-mentioned Burmese PM.
A U.S. president has never had an ACP-op with a leader of the Burmese (now called Myanmar) historically. Several presidents have been caught off-record singing “On the Road to Mandalay” privately, while in their cups, but that was before video cams were so prevalent.
If all goes to plan, Obama and Medvedev will attempt their historic final and binding ACP-op during Obama’s travels to Denmark in early December to accept his own Nobel Peace Prize.
This Danish ACP-op would be a big feather in Obama’s cap, giving him bragging rights that will be hard for Glenn Beck to surmount on his own. The president has been absolutely giggly on the issue both leading up to and during this initial Asia trip. “Beck doesn’t even have a cap,” he laughs.
“We have taken the appropriate steps to mount our global Faux–Beck media campaign,” he said during a news conference in Japan with Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama.
Two traveling administration officials said, “Roger Ailes won’t know what ever hit him.” They were speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the negotiations.
“I don’t foresee a major problem that can’t be resolved in the next few weeks,” said Marc H. Furst, executive director of the Arm Control Photo-op Association, which documents all these highly-detailed negotiations. “Neither side wants to go without a new ACP-op for very long.”
Golly, I guess it’s a good thing when funny (satire) writing causes serious discussion.
Now I understand what he meant when he said:
“I am beginning to like this sense of power,” said Jon Stewart.
hey, just trying to make a living 🙂 and feed all the hungry babies in Africa…
Gosh I was kidding Charles. Did someone move the satire site? LOL
America is too high and haughty to ever allow such high figure (such as the president) to even get close to Kim Jong-II. That would just be a complete diplomatic disgrace… unless … like you’ve said: Kim Jong-II completely disarms his nuclear arsenal… which will never happen…
The president wouldn’t do that for a million dollars.
However, if someone pays me $500 dollars, I could manage such “photo-op” with “Photoshop” … to its perfection.
A Kim Jong-Il Arm Control Photo-op, now that would be an accomplishment while he just happens to be in that particular part of the world.
The President is currently being pounded (hard) by questions and pressures from the media outlets about domestic issues and the 2 front war — esp. troop increase in Afghanistan — while traveling in Asia. The visit by Barrack Obama has been cut short to 3 weeks: 1 week in China, 1 in Japan, and 1 in South Korea.
These distractions are really derailing what the president’s original purpose to visit Asia. Just hours into his first trip to Asia as President and his 17th visit to a foreign country, one thing has become clear: Obama is having a tough time keeping the international focus on Asia with so much else going on in the world and at home.
The official message on the President’s travels through Asia is that the U.S. cares about the region. “America understands the importance of Asia in the 21st century,” White House aides repeat.
Asia countries need to cooperate with America, just as much as America needs cooperation with Asia, esp. in a time of Global Financial Crisis.
I say, to all the media pundits, give the president a break right now. His trip in Asia has significant mark in America’s future political agenda.
There’s plenty of time for questions on domestic issues and war front policies … later!
Friendly negotiations between America and Asia should be on the top of our president’s agenda right now.