President Obama gets a little too flirty with Thai prime minister

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
11/19/2012
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)

Obama photographed in clench with Aung San Suu Kyi

Eyebrows went skyward as the recently re-elected U.S. President Barack Obama brought a new brand of foreign relations. Obama appeared to flirt with Thailand's attractive prime minister on his first stop of his three-day tour of Southeast Asia. Obama and Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra were seen laughing together and exchanging playful glances at a state dinner in Bangkok this weekend.

President Obama had jetted to Myanmar previously , where he was pictured lavishing affection on Aung San Suu Kyi, the pro-democracy leader who was under house arrest for two decades following her fight for democracy.

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LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Obama had jetted to Myanmar previously , where he was pictured lavishing affection on Aung San Suu Kyi, the pro-democracy leader who was under house arrest for two decades following her fight for democracy.

Obama was then joined in Thailand by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. They both then visited Myanmar - also known as Burma - and Cambodia, making Obama the first U.S. president to step foot in either country.

Obama said it was "no accident" that he planned his first foreign trip to Asia after winning re-election. At a news conference on Sunday in Bangkok, Obama emphasized that the U.S. is a "Pacific nation."

Obama says that the Asia-Pacific region will be crucial for creating jobs in the U.S. and shaping its security and prosperity. In addition, the U.S. president praised Thailand for being a supporter of democracy in Myanmar, the once-pariah state that is rapidly reforming.

The president's visit was a big hit in Thailand, where adoring crowds gathered around him and chanted "Obama, Obama" as he visited the Temple of Reclining Buddha just after arriving in Bangkok.

The Temple of Reclining Buddha was the first stop on President Barack Obama's Asian tour that will also take him to Myanmar and Cambodia.

A saffron-robed monk led Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton through the 18th century temple's stoned paved compound of multi-colored spires and chapels with hundreds of gilded Buddha images.

The chief attraction is the reclining Buddha statue that at 150 feet long, and 50 feet high, stretches half the length of a football field.

A smiling Obama waved from the back seat of his armored Cadillac, which drove slowly alongside cheering crowds as he headed to a royal audience with Thailand's revered, ailing monarch, 84-year-old King Bhumibol Adulyadej.

Obama will be dividing his attention in his Asian visit by monitoring the escalating conflict between Israel and the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.

Obama has been in regular contact with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as well as with Egyptian and Turkish leaders who might hold sway with the Hamas leadership.

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Keywords: President Obama, Thailand, Burma, Myanmar, Israel

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1 - 9 of 9 Comments

Judy Claar
5 months ago
Thoughts of Reason: No More & George Ronald Adkisson. Sunday Blessings..
George Ronald Adkisson
5 months ago
Obama did received his acting skills from being schooled as a lawyer that could not have passed the bar exam with what he actually did to children while incumbent.
He is no different than the other recent presidents and vice presidents or the senate members there in Congress.
President John Adams once said,
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." -October 11, 1798.

"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and Bible" - George Washington.

Thomas Jefferson wrote: "God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are a gift from God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that His justice cannot sleep forever."

It is good to hear that freedom of the press is practiced in the church even if it is not outside the church.
Everyone have an enjoyable day...you are just as important as any other human being, and the elected officials in the uS are no different...period.
No more
5 months ago
To the first two commenters, please get over yourselves. This is simply a report about something the un-Christian obummer did. I don't read any 'bashing.' You're just out to defend any and all reports against him because you made the sorry choice of voting for him. I could go on and on about you 'pro choice, pro infantacide' obummer supporters. You liberals call yourselves Catholic, you are far from it!
Randy Hale
5 months ago
I am in no way a supporter of Obama, but your feature photo is tacky and very misleading. I saw a news video that showed what transpired in this scene. At their greeting, President Obama cordially greeted her with a lite kiss on both cheeks.
Please leave this type of reporting to the grocery store tabloids.
sue a
5 months ago
That was Aung San Suu Kyi that Obama demonstrates a new brand of foreign relations in the photo. I agree with Danielle B.
EJ Butler
5 months ago
This is despicable! You should be ashamed. President Obama has been very accomodating to religious groups during his administration and the Catholic Church has been going out of its way to oppose / denigrate him. Are you modeling yourself after Fox News now? Disgusting!!
Alfred
5 months ago
She's not Thai!
Danielle B
5 months ago
The title of this article is completely inappropriate and lacks journalistic integrity or even a strong correlation to the content. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Bill Woodman
5 months ago
Stop this un-Christian Obama-bashing please!!

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