(07-24-2024, 02:35 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(07-24-2024, 02:21 PM)Jag149 Wrote: What the heck, it was a good attempt at misdirection there.  LOL  ?  I am talking about the job of the executive branch define by the constitution. Biden has covid so he gets a pass. It then falls to the VP.  Now, can Harris do the job, is it she can't, is she refusing? 

And yes Obama gets a minus one for that, just like Kamela gets one for this.

Sorry, I have my history backwards.  Obama did meet with Gaddafi and shook his hand in 2009 but they were in Italy . He was the only President to ever meet with Gaddafi in the 40 years that Gaddafi was President. Gaddafi came to the US to speak at the UN general Assembly the same year, and I believe that was the only time Gaddafi ever set foot in the US.

The point I'm trying to make is that world leaders come to the US all the time without meeting the President.  I thought Gaddafi was an example but I was mistaken.  I'm sure there are many other examples but I'm not going to research them.

I think normally, if a foreign leader wants to meet with the President in the White House, there's some lower level diplomatic conversation, and, if the President wants to do it, an invitation is extended.  

This one with Netanyahu is kind of awkward because he wasn't invited by the President.  He was invited by the Congress.  I think most Presidents would not want Congress to send out White House invitations.  And it seems kind of insulting to the President to demand that he clear his schedule for an uninvited guest.

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