A presidential yawn: Hectic schedule catches up with Obama at Asian summit

Samrang Pring / Reuters

U.S. President Barack Obama yawns as he sits between Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, right, and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao during the plenary session of the 21st ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) and East Asia summits in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on November 20, 2012. In his first meeting with a Chinese leader since his re-election, Obama said on Tuesday Washington and its chief economic rival must work together to "establish clear rules of the road" for trade and investment.

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President Barack Obama, who was in Cambodia for a summit of Asian leaders, spoke on the phone with Israeli and Egyptian leaders until 2:30 a.m. Tuesday local time, NBC News reports, to try to find a way to end the deadly Gaza crisis.

Later Tuesday, Obama met separately with Chinese and Japanese leaders before taking his seat at the East Asia Summit, at which point his busy schedule appeared to catch up with him. 

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How dare you refute The President Of The United States Of America by posting such a photo! Of course President Obama is exausted....He was on the phone until after 2:30 this morning, attempting to build some sort of compassionate bridge across this immence abyss of lunatic politics, propaganda, and, horror. I challenge Any of you, who are so quick to judge the very people that We have asked to attend to these Horrors, to come up with a grain of sanity, or, moreso, a plan to save the multitude of Souls who are trapped behind the voices and violence of Satans servants in The Middle East. Do you actually believe that All Iranians and Egyptians subscribe to this lunacy? I then assert, that you don't know any Iranians or Egyptians, especially those who have managed to escape to America, where, they are everlastingly joyous to be finally free from the same stereotypes that caused The Holocaust.

Hillary Clinton is likely the only one who can approach this situation with integrity, courage and compassion. We trust in her to handle this appropiately. Those of you who dare to refute Hillary Clinton, President Obama, or any and all of We Americans who take our orders from The Commander In Chief Of The United States Of America, need to step out of your pathetic strictures, turn off your propaganda machines, and, look up into the sky for direction from God. Please cease this pathetic mockery of Our Commander In Chief Now!

May God Bless You and Keep You All, as We trudge through these most difficult of Times together.

United We Stand-Divided We Fall!

Neil David Bernstein Architect For The People.

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