Obama Talks to Nine World Leaders
President-elect Obama returned calls to nine foreign leaders today, thanking them for having called to express congratulations on his election. He returned calls and spoke to: 1. Prime Minister Rudd of Australia 2. Prime Minister Harper of Canada 3. President Sarkozy of France 4. Chancellor Merkel of Germany 5. Prime Minister Brown of the United Kingdom 6. Prime Minister Aso of Japan 7. President Calderon of Mexico 8. President Lee of South Korea 9. Prime Minister Olmert of Israel (Photo: President-elect Obama speaking with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Ohlmert today.) – jpt

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And Governor Palin of Alaska…
Posted by: Deputy_Bob | November 6, 2008, 6:40 pm 6:40 pm
But was it the real President Sarkozy? Jk! It is wonderful to see the world not hating the arrogant US.
Posted by: SUSIE | November 6, 2008, 6:40 pm 6:40 pm
A veritable “Who’s Who” of nations whose perception of us we will have to rehabilitate before any meaningful multi-lateral foreign policy can take place.
Posted by: Bob | November 6, 2008, 7:09 pm 7:09 pm
No Spain???
Didn’t he make fun of McCain for dissing Spain?
Also Missing:
Afghanistan
Pakistan
Iraq
Georgia
Russia
Posted by: MayBee | November 6, 2008, 7:17 pm 7:17 pm
y dint he called Indian PM, I am Australian now however indian blood, we prayed for you long days and nights Barak,
Do call Indian PM,
Just Kidding, we have faith in you, what ever you do is right.
This genrations needs you and we all love you.
God bless you.
Posted by: Kapil | November 6, 2008, 7:22 pm 7:22 pm
Palin wants to work with Obama so she can ‘teach’ him about “American energy independence”. Wonder why he didn’t call her? WHAT A TOTAL JOKE!! I hope SNL uses that line in a skit! Talk about a good laugh!!!
Posted by: InWantofaUnitedNation | November 6, 2008, 7:31 pm 7:31 pm
Some of you seem upset Obama has not called this country or that country… the story clearly sted he was “returning” calls.
Posted by: jvii | November 6, 2008, 7:40 pm 7:40 pm
You know, I voted for Mac, but Obama sure looks cool-I can’t believe we have such a smooth looking guy as prez. I heard he still smokes a little bit too. I think that is actually kind of awesome.
He is inexperienced, but, he might surprise us all.
All I know is Russia just handed him a bag of worry…
Posted by: Wade | November 6, 2008, 7:41 pm 7:41 pm
It’s funny but the first call I expected him to get was the whacko from Iran…but it took one day to get his congrats. DUH!
Posted by: bella61 | November 6, 2008, 7:44 pm 7:44 pm
job well done mr president
Posted by: razor | November 6, 2008, 7:49 pm 7:49 pm
bella61
With people like you there is a reason why this country is so divided.
Posted by: unshrub | November 6, 2008, 8:00 pm 8:00 pm
What about Iran / Cuba / North Korea? Oh come on Mr. Obama what about No-Preconditions
Posted by: chuck | November 6, 2008, 8:10 pm 8:10 pm
Obama will have the power (ability to act) of POTUS, and he will have many tools at his disposal.
But he will not have the authority that is earned only by a record of sacrificial service!
Obama chose the way of the Chicago “You wash my back, and I will wash yours” politicians!
He has never walked the talk! He has only talked! :(
Posted by: aware2u | November 6, 2008, 8:10 pm 8:10 pm
Please, elections are over, let us give Sarah a bit of peace and time to enjoy her fanily. She could not even read her concession speach to Joe Biden, poor Sarah, sade granpa said NO, but sade granpa has read his concession speech to Obama: double standard. Sarah has not been well treated by McCain who has no respect for women. The issue remains McCain’s views of women and his overall poor judgement.
Posted by: BKMC | November 6, 2008, 8:11 pm 8:11 pm
Lets wait to call him president. President elect is powerful enough. Did Kenya call or do we just not know?
Posted by: William | November 6, 2008, 8:16 pm 8:16 pm
Did the SLP4VP staff clear these calls, too, or were there any Canadian DJ’s included?
Posted by: OneObservation | November 6, 2008, 8:19 pm 8:19 pm
The Georgian pres would be a good, albeit lower profile, addition to the list, along with the Ukrainians.
Posted by: OneObservation | November 6, 2008, 8:20 pm 8:20 pm
This is wonderful. Maybe we will regain some of the respect we lost under the Bush admin. We need our allies.
Posted by: shockolit | November 6, 2008, 8:22 pm 8:22 pm
re: Posted by: InWantofaUnitedNation | Nov 6, 2008 7:31:33 PM
Wow? was that offer for real?
Energy independence (or more specifically petro-independence) would make it much harder for Palin to dole out energy surplus (the AK version of share the wealth) and to keep her popularity up on the home front.
Throughout the campaign, I kept hearing about her expertise on energy … and kept hearing Tina Fey telling us she can see ‘oil derricks from her house’.
Posted by: OneObservation | November 6, 2008, 8:25 pm 8:25 pm
re: Posted by: shockolit | Nov 6, 2008 8:22:02 PM
You’re right … there was probably more productive discussion in those calls than in the past 4 yrs (post-Powell)
Posted by: OneObservation | November 6, 2008, 8:28 pm 8:28 pm
What will this radical left wing president elect talk about with Fidel when he calls? Maybe they will smoke a few Havanas together and talk about how Castro also fooled his nation into following him by demonizing Batista the dictator. Prosperity was replaced with Marxism in Cuba, God help the USA, because Obama is cut of the same cloth as anti-hero Fidel Castro. First he will nationalize the banks and take away our guns . . .
Posted by: Chris | November 6, 2008, 8:30 pm 8:30 pm
Has Eqypt call him yet. I hear they want him to part the Red Sea. You kool-aid drinkers probably belive he can do it. Wake up.
Posted by: Bryan | November 6, 2008, 8:47 pm 8:47 pm
Our long nightmare is over. I’m so happy, I’m so proud to be an American.
President Elect – Barack Obama!!
God bless you all and God bless America!
Posted by: Mike | November 6, 2008, 9:01 pm 9:01 pm
looks like the stock market is responding to Obama’s win. The future is in view. Go off shore with your $ before it’s too late!
Posted by: Scott | November 6, 2008, 9:15 pm 9:15 pm
“Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday congratulated Barack Obama on his election win — the first time an Iranian leader has offered such wishes to a U.S. president-elect since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.” I guess Iran has high hopes for Obama, and what they might get out of his presidency.
Posted by: huh? | November 6, 2008, 9:20 pm 9:20 pm
Things overheard from barrack at his first CIA briefing.
“So who”s the bad guys again?”
“I want a background check on that guy who just disagrreed with me.”
“Maybe Bush was right…….uh I mean, that”s adsurb !”
“So which end where the bullets coming out again?”
“I want to relocate our aircraft carrier to the middle of Aftganistan so we can striked quickly.”
“Pakistan got nukes?”
“Can I asked bill ayers what he thinks about this?”"Can we wrapped this up soon. I got an appointment with rev. wright.”
“Do as I say, not as I do.”
“So Admiral, so long have you been in the Army?”
“Wow, this is not what I thought at all.”
“We have a missile defends program?”
“No need to explain the football to me, I thrown it hundreds of times.”
Too many to listed all…………….
Posted by: USA-No1 | November 6, 2008, 9:37 pm 9:37 pm
I lived in Europe during 2004 & 2005. At times, I felt somewhat unsafe. I immediately told co-workers how much I disliked Bush, which was true. I told them that Bush’s church wrote him a letter before he started the Iraq war. The United Methodist Church told him the war was against the teachings of Christ.
Although Obama has not been in Congress for very long, I do not agree he is inexperienced. Obama has the same amount or more state senator & federal senator experience than other highly rated presidents.
As opposed to Palin, many people have commented about Obama being very well read.
Conservative Republican David Brooks praising Obama’s intellect and skills in social perception, telling two stories of his interactions with Obama that left him “dazzled”
“Obama has the great intellect. I was interviewing Obama a couple years ago, and I’m getting nowhere with the interview, it’s late in the night, he’s on the phone, walking off the Senate floor, he’s cranky. Out of the blue I say, ‘Ever read a guy named Reinhold Niebuhr?’ And he says, ‘Yeah.’ So i say, ‘What did Niebuhr mean to you?’ For the next 20 minutes, he gave me a perfect description of Reinhold Niebuhr’s thought, which is a very subtle thought process based on the idea that you have to use power while it corrupts you.
And I was dazzled, I felt the tingle up my knee as Chris Matthews would say
And the other thing that does separate Obama from just a pure intellectual: he has tremendous powers of social perception. And this is why he’s a politician, not an academic. A couple of years ago, I was writing columns attacking the Republican congress for spending too much money. And I throw in a few sentences attacking the Democrats to make myself feel better. And one morning I get an email from Obama saying, ‘David, if you wanna attack us, fine, but you’re only throwing in those sentences to make yourself feel better.’ And it was a perfect description of what was going through my mind. And everybody who knows Obama all have these stories to tell about his capacity for social perception.
…
“He’s phenomenally good at surrounding himself with a team,” Brooks said.”
Posted by: Julie | November 6, 2008, 9:38 pm 9:38 pm
Chris: Obama is not going to take away anybody’s guns. Relax!
Posted by: realvalues | November 6, 2008, 9:41 pm 9:41 pm
Note to huh?: Iran’s president is facing falling oil prices following his big spending sprees. No doubt he’s going to get more desperate to try to deal with the U.S. as the days pass by…our president-elect should ignore Ahmahdinijad for now and make him sweat…bet that’s just what he’s going to do!
Posted by: realvalues | November 6, 2008, 9:49 pm 9:49 pm
mr, coffee, don’t shoot the messeger.
Posted by: USA-No1 | November 6, 2008, 9:58 pm 9:58 pm
You people fail to realize that none of the presidents ever elected had any experience as president, because they had never been president before. Experience only comes by holding the office and actually doing the job, unless you think that one can truly learn by osmosis. Give it a rest!
Posted by: pattylou | November 6, 2008, 10:03 pm 10:03 pm
Darn!, I was hoping for 4 more years of spending 5 billion dollars a month in Iraq!. And it would have been fun watching Sarah P trying to find Africa on the map on yootube.Don’t worry republicans after the dems balaance the budget, get business rolling and jobs for everyone you can bet your chosen one will get elected and screw it all up again!.
Posted by: GCBlaze | November 6, 2008, 10:14 pm 10:14 pm
usa 1
you know that everything you just listed for obama are phrases taken from a book called
BUSHISMES
all crazy phrases taken from bush.
Posted by: one world, one people,please | November 6, 2008, 11:03 pm 11:03 pm
Much of the problems we have today come from not understanding the foundations of free & independent state republics & the limits set on the federal government by the Constitution.
Educating our citizens as to those true foundations is the first step in understanding what is necessary to make the right decisions to solving those problems.
Read not just the Constitution, but the Constitutional debates that define the Constitution, so that you are not deceived.
Some essential documents are:
John Locke – Civil Government – 8 pages long; Samuel Adams “The Rights of the Colonists”, 2 pages; James Madison & Thomas Jefferson, Authors of both the Declaration of Independence & Constitution, in “The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions” 4 pages written after the Constitution was ratified, defining the intent of the Constitution; The Constitutional Debates – One debate that defines the intent well, is MONDAY, June 16, 1788 (misprinted as June 14) – Approximately 8 pages that leave no doubt what the Founders had intended.
Read & Learn these few documents, and you will see very clearly what are the real issues of this country.
The problems we are facing are much deeper than the presidency; States and counties share in inflicting their own injuries by allowing what should not exist.
Exclusive state born privileges – Corporations, Unions and Special interests which were never to exist in a free country – See the Virginia Declaration of Rights #4 by George Mason; The expansion of Departments by the federal government warned by George Mason and Patrick Henry; Or federal policing outside the 10 miles square of Washington DC; Federal Mandates upon States where states were to operate as independent states and the Federal government to be limited to continental issues between countries and the Federal government acting outside its limited delegated powers for which the founders established in the Constitutional debates, that the federal government was not to take even one step beyond.
American Patriot Party. CC
Posted by: Richard Taylor APP | November 6, 2008, 11:36 pm 11:36 pm
usa 1
you know that everything you just listed for obama are phrases taken from a book called BUSHISMES
all crazy phrases taken from bush.
Posted by: one world, one people,please
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So barrack is just like Pres Bush?
Posted by: USA-No1 | November 7, 2008, 12:04 am 12:04 am
THANK GOD, A REAL PRESIDENT ELECT.
Posted by: RUPPERT | November 7, 2008, 2:51 am 2:51 am
Canaglia as all top Americans, especially their presidents. For ignorants in Italian: canaglia means – rascal or scoundrel, whichever you prefer. He got a felicitating letter from Medvedev but as a demonstration of his low-breed did not answer. To answer does not mean to be pro-somebody, but just to be polite. No surprise keeping in mind who he is.
Posted by: Caspar96 | November 7, 2008, 5:35 am 5:35 am
Congratulations America, I am very happy for the Americans citizen , finally they deserve such a great President
Wish all the Best to MR President B.Obama
Posted by: Samir | November 7, 2008, 5:35 am 5:35 am
Obama is 47 y/o and looks pretty old and dry, prematurely aged. Yet all royal guard is screaming – he is YOUNG and INEXPERIENCED. What a nonsence! He just didn’t do anything useful for American People, or Global Mankind because he is such and not because he is “young”. He just got what he wanted, and this is – to get to the power. All people for him are just steps and lemons. As soon as the step is passed and the lemon is squeezed he throws them away. Understand, understand, sorry, guys – you are so excited today. But I am patient, and would be curious to see you in 8 months. See you then.
Posted by: Independent999 | November 7, 2008, 5:47 am 5:47 am
Concerning Obama’s abilities. He did badly enough both in Harvard and in Columbia. He might chose either side of his identity, but when his mediocrity faced a tough choice – when he was about the age to enter his first college – he has chosen the black side. This was an enforced choice since only as black he could strike better, supported and promoted by infamous Affirmative Action. He graduated from both places without any honors. And – he is hiding his grades. They were apparently below needed level EVEN DESPITE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION! – How lucky Americans are said here somebody. – Yes – lucky loonies indeed!
Posted by: DonParry | November 7, 2008, 5:56 am 5:56 am
In 1988 Khalid al-Mansour, principal adviser to Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, lobbied friends like Manhattan Borough president Percy Sutton to intervene at Harvard on Obama’s behalf. It has been done because Obama’s grades placed him in perilous position to be disqualified. His grades, in fact, are below Affirmative Action’s level.
Posted by: PredellaPride | November 7, 2008, 6:01 am 6:01 am
Obama boosts that he was elected a president of HLR. He was elected so under tremendous pressure as the first African American president (just like he is now). During all his tenure he didn’t contribute a single word not only in Harward Law Review but to any law journal and to any other journal whatsoever. Lier, lier, pants on fire.
Posted by: PredellaPride | November 7, 2008, 6:06 am 6:06 am
Quite frankly, it was an embarrassment to have had this country seriously consider Sarah Palin for ANY type of federal office, … for a plethora of reasons. It blows my mind, that many, gave their vote to her, … on the grounds that she is nice, says cute phrases, wears nice clothes, and denies everything that is said about her.
It is quite pathetic, that, in SUCH a terrible economic time, and at such a time of crisis, many people chose skin color over the health of a country. So, the question is, … who is the patriot?
Posted by: Vince | November 7, 2008, 6:10 am 6:10 am
PredellaPride,
Quite, frankly, it was thoroughly embarrassing for a woman who did not even know that Africa was a continent to even be considered for the position of Vice-President.
Say what you like. We can see Obama is an intelligent and thoughtful person with an intellectual rigor- I can see how he got into the Ivy League even if you can’t. Even if he DID get in only through Affirmative Action, I should like to point out he managed to graduate at the TOP of his class in Harvard.
Posted by: Grey Matter | November 7, 2008, 7:44 am 7:44 am
Quite, frankly, it was thoroughly embarrassing for a woman who did not even know that Africa was a continent to even be considered for the position of Vice-President.
Posted by: Grey Matter | Nov 7, 2008 7:44:10 AM
In the interest of geographic learning:
“Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii.” – Senator Barack Obama, May 9, 2008
I’m not sure if that means there are a total of 58 or 59 states but I sure feel real stupid now, having thought all along there were just fifty states. You guys are right: We Republicans are so stupid.
Posted by: OBAMANATION [uh-bom-uh-NEY-shuhn] | November 7, 2008, 11:49 am 11:49 am
“6. Prime Minister Aso of Japan”
That’s not very nice, Jake.
Posted by: OBAMANATION [uh-bom-uh-NEY-shuhn] | November 7, 2008, 1:03 pm 1:03 pm
I take it Chavez did not get a call back.
Posted by: Stephen Gianelli | November 7, 2008, 3:03 pm 3:03 pm
If you didn’t see Chavez’s name on the list, I’m assuming he did not get a call.
So what about it?
Posted by: Rev. Ike | November 7, 2008, 5:31 pm 5:31 pm
Mr. President Barack Obama (Just newly elected) congratulations !!!!!!!!!
Please, go ahead with your sincere view and motive to straighten up this country, doesn’t matter who says what. We are waiting to see your remarkable and best possible activities what you can show the world that you are the best.
Thank You.
May God bless you ever.
A patriot, a citizen of United States.
Posted by: Shamsul Khan | November 8, 2008, 11:49 am 11:49 am
I’m pretty sure Obama’s staff knows to confirm that it was Sarkozy in the phone and not some comedian from Montreal.
Posted by: Pacific moderate | November 10, 2008, 1:20 am 1:20 am