This year will be President Barack Obama's first trip to the UN to address the General Assembly. Judging by the POTUS' first months in office he will probably follow the tradition of other nations and spend hours telling the world the United States is lousy.
When Obama comes to the UN he will also be taking the opportunity of officiating a meeting of the United Nations Security Council , a totally unprecedented step. No US President has ever run a meeting of the Security Council, the only UN body with any authority.
The purpose of Obamas unusual step? Well if you check the agenda he has laid out, the purpose is to appease rogue states:
Obama’s UN Gambit: King of the Universe and the Polls
He'll chair a Security Council meeting — and pander to rogue states.
By Anne Bayefsky
Looking for a quick and easy boost in the polls, President Obama has decided to go to the one place where merit bears no relationship to adulation: the United Nations. On September 24, the president will take the unprecedented step of presiding over a meeting of the UN Security Council.
No American president has ever attempted to acquire the image of King of the Universe by officiating at a meeting of the UN’s highest body. But Obama apparently believes that being flanked by council-member heads of state like Col. Moammar Qaddafi — who is expected to be seated five seats to Obama’s right — will cast a sufficiently blinding spell on the American taxpayer that the perilous state of the nation’s economy, the health-care fiasco, and a summer of “post-racial” scapegoating will pale by comparison.
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