Press Secretary Robert Gibbs is known for sparring with White House reporters, making for what often seems an antagonistic mood in the press briefing room.But during President Obama's trip to India, Gibbs assumed the role of press advocate and threatened to pull Obama out of bilateral talks with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh because three U.S. reporters were blocked from covering the meeting.
Indian officials would let only five reporters into Hyderabad House in New Delhi instead of the agreed-upon eight.
Seriously, this could have been resolved diplomatically and out of the public view. Now we have an American leadership that looks petty and arrogant, a important ally looking spurned and everyone wondering what the hell is going on with our political class. Team Bambi looks more and more amateurish every day.