Diplomats

Obama Refers to U.S. Diplomats as 'My Folks'

11:40 AM, Oct 17, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPER

At last night's presidential debate, President Barack Obama referred to U.S. diplomats as "my folks":

"And when it comes to this issue, when I say that we are going to find out exactly what happened, everybody will be held accountable -- and I am ultimately responsible for what’s taking place there, because these are my folks, and I’m the one who has to greet those coffins when they come home, you know that I mean what I say," said President Obama of the slain U.S. diplomats who were killed in the 9/11 terrorist attack in Benghazi.

Iran Outplays Obama at the U.N.

Iran Outplays Obama at the U.N.

The diplomatic gang that couldn’t shoot straight.

May 17, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 33 • By MICHAEL ANTON

Watching foreign diplomats run circles around America’s striped pants set is always a depressing spectacle. In recent days we’ve been treated to some doozies—for instance, Iran being elected to the U.N.’s Commission on the Status of Women when our own (female) U.N. ambassador didn’t show up for the vote.

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