• @CptEnder
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      586 months ago

      Lmao can you imagine President Obama having a call go to voicemail?

      • @WillySpreadum
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        326 months ago

        just thinking logistically, I imagine that happened a lot. Anyway I expect a decent number of his calls were made by aides and he just took the phone after they got through to the right person.

        • GladiusB
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          216 months ago

          Even if it said “President Obama” many people would think it’s a prank.

          • @[email protected]
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            66 months ago

            True, but if you just got elected as the head of a US friendly nation, it probably wouldn’t be quite so unbelievable.

          • r00ty
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            26 months ago

            Well to be fair I’d answer just to say “no you’re not!”

      • @StaticFalconar
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        246 months ago

        Im surprised the aides from each side didnt do all the logistics of connecting with one another and the president wasnt just handed a phone with the call already connected through.

        • @makyo
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          96 months ago

          That’s what I was thinking, surely it was an aide who was dialing who’d only hand the phone to Obama when it actually connected to Key

        • @Klear
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          6 months ago

          That was the aides from Obama’s side calling 100%. The minister was newly elected, maybe fairly new to politics as a whole? Maybe he just doesn’t like middlemen. Edit: **Re-**elected, I missed that. I guess the second option then.

    • RBG
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      306 months ago

      Its a news site but the only place you can find the date of the article is in the URL. Sometimes I am baffled by the weird design decisions people are making.

      • Ricky Rigatoni
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        226 months ago

        It’s called USA Today. That means you’re only supposed to read the news that came out today.

        • @Klear
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          36 months ago

          Oh, so it happened today. Makes it a lot less interesting now that Obama is not a president and hasn’t been in years.

      • @[email protected]
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        46 months ago

        It says it right under the headline, no? Or maybe that’s only on the mobile layout or something.

    • @arvere
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      86 months ago

      I guess I should start answering… what if it’s Obama?