Obama Launches U.N. Reform Campaign, Won’t Threaten To Withhold Funding…
I sense another epic fail in Obama’s future.
(Fox News) — With presidential elections looming, the Obama administration has launched a high-profile campaign in favor of belt-tightening at the United Nations — but without the threat of withholding U.S. funding for the sprawling world organization.
The aim, at least in part, is to preempt even tougher action proposed by the Republican-dominated House of Representatives, which calls for selective U.S. funding cutoffs unless specific demands for U.N. reform and transparency are met.
Unlike the Republican proposals, the administration’s campaign, spearheaded by U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. for Management and Reform Joseph Torsella, explicitly rules out withholding of U.S. financial aid and counts on persuasion to propel its agenda of efficiency, transparency and openness. Whether U.N. bureaucrats and their developing world supporters will be impressed remains to be seen.
Posted by ZIP on Wednesday, January 25, 2012, at 8:29 pm | 
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The same asshole that threatened to withhold military pay.
“Kids, go clean your room! And if you don’t, well, I won’t do anything.”
Ya.
That works all the time.
This from the same asshole who can’t stop his own spending. Defund the UN and get it offshore, give them our embassy in Iraq.
‘persuasion’ ??
Like when they tried to persuade Mooch to stop taking expensive vacations on the taxpayer’s dime…..and their efforts to get her to stop growling, grimacing and baring her fangs at other dignitaries wives.
Oh yeah, this is gonna work….
Bullshit. He has never ‘tightend the belt’ on anything(except the military. Watch, he will end up giving them more money in the end, spending is all he knows.
This guy really thinks he’s the savior of the world.
Let the UN meet in Somalia, Palestine or Iran. Toss them out or New Yawke. Let Obama and Moochelle go with them with a pre paid one way ticket
Don’t call his bluff!
Winning the foreign policy future, the soetero way!
The way to reform the UN IS to withhold funding
@ veldy – Agreed! Get them out of this country. What a waste of valuable commercial space. Yes, I’m a capitalist!
God bless America, our troops, Israel, and decent fellow humans everywhere.
u.n. belt-tightening = we pay more, all others pay less. bozo won’t kick them out, he’ll need a job there in january.
If you really want to save the world, fly a hijacked Iran Air plane into the U.N. when in full session. When the fire dies out, salt the earth. Ten years later, build a large Christian cathedral at ground zero.
Just sayin’
The one thing the aliens in that great sci fi movie INDEPENDENCE DAY didnt do was to destroy the UN place
All BS from Obama.
He is planning on being appointed head of the UN once we throw him out.
The man has ADHD!
He never finishes anything but is always “dreaming” up new adventures.
The highest and best us of UN property, would be a solid waste dump. Get the UN
out of America, And, get America out of the UN. We do not require a one world government.
The best reform for the UNITED NATIONS is for america to pull out of this body of crinimals and hoods We need to evict the entire UN raize the whole place to the ground and turn the area into a bird refuge with goose hunting allowed