World Leaders Ditch Prez, Get Own Clubhouse

The New York Post has an account of our president’s time in Copen­hagen.  It sounds like a Happy Days scenario.

White House aides described an extra­or­di­nary scene of des­per­a­tion and dis­ar­ray dur­ing the final hours of nego­ti­a­tions in Copenhagen.

First, Richie and Ralph decide to play a trick on Pot­sie by telling him that the girls are busy so they’re skip­ping the malt shop and just going home.

Obama and his team were pre­pared to give up hope for a broad deal after hear­ing that lead­ers of India, Brazil and other key nations — along with much of the entire Chi­nese del­e­ga­tion — had already left for the airport.

But that wasn’t the case.

When Pot­sie went to his girl’s house her lit­tle sis­ter was there babysit­ting so Pot­sie got stuck play­ing with the lit­tle kids.

Instead, Chi­nese Pre­mier Wen Jiabao insult­ingly skipped a high-​​level meet­ing in the morn­ing, leav­ing Obama and other world lead­ers nego­ti­at­ing with a lower-​​level gov­ern­ment official.

Then Pot­sie found out they were hang­ing out at Fonzie’s garage so he went there.  Upon walk­ing in he stum­bled over an air hose on the ground, falling into Fonzie’s motor­cy­cle, break­ing the headlight.

Wen later attend a meet­ing with Pres­i­dent Lula de Silva of Brazil as well as the lead­ers of India and South Africa. Obama decided he wanted to go, and was forced to barge into the meeting.

“Mr. Pre­mier, are you ready to see me? Are you ready?” the exas­per­ated Obama inquired loudly from the conference-​​room door, in front of the press and other world lead­ers who had already gathered.

“We can’t get into the room to look at it,” explained one of the advance offi­cials. “They’re all hav­ing a meeting.”

After they got the motor­cy­cle righted they stood around awk­wardly, three guys, three girls, and Pot­sie.  Finally some­one said, “Hey, Pot­sie, there isn’t a girl for you,” and Pot­sie gave them his famous, con­fi­dent, win­ning smile and said, “That’s OK, guys, I’ll just tag along.”

There wasn’t even a seat for Obama.

“The pres­i­dent walks in and by the time I finally push through I hear the pres­i­dent say, ‘There aren’t any seats,’ ” explained one of the offi­cials. “And the pres­i­dent says, ‘No, no, don’t worry, I’m going to go sit by my friend Lula,’ and says, ‘Hey, Lula,’ ” the advance offi­cial said.

Obama walked over, moved a chair beside the Brazil­ian leader and took a seat.

Details HERE

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Tags: Barack Obama, Happy Days