(Reuters) - President Barack Obama did not give Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the cold shoulder when they met in the White House last week, a top Obama aide said on Sunday.
"This was a working meeting among friends. And so there was no snub intended," White House senior adviser David Axelrod told CNN's State of the Union news program.
| Someone needs a closer relationship to the truth, whether it's Mr. Axelrod or those who inform him. |
Axelrod noted that the two leaders had met in private for two hours and had better things to do with their time than worry about protocol.
| But one should always worry about manners, especially when one is head of state, and even more especially when one is head of a powerful state. President Obama did not do that. Nor did he do anything to demonstrate that this was indeed a meeting among friends -- stopping for a few photos on the way to dinner would have done that, or walking the colleague to the front door and being seen shaking hands before said colleague gets in the car taking his team to the airport. Someone is a lying little two-faced weasel. They bite, you know, and sometimes have rabies. |
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