Strike one for the week: Iranian leadership tells Obama they are not interested in meeting with him. Strike two for the week: Brazil tells Obama to take a hike, as well. Wow! The man makes us proud, every week he is in office, no ?

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Tuesday delivered a stinging rebuke of electronic espionage by the National Security Agency, telling a gathering of world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly that American eavesdropping constitutes “a breach of international law and an affront” to Brazil’s sovereignty.

“Without the right of privacy, there is no real freedom of speech or freedom of opinion, and so there is no actual democracy.   Without respect for [a nation’s] sovereignty, there is no basis for proper relations among nations.”

She canceled her scheduled meeting with Obama,  this week,  because of his Admistration’s efforts to spy on a Brazilian oil company and,  on the president of Brazil, herself.  Turns out that Obama’s NSA accessed Rousseff’s personal email account(s) ,  sending that president into a rage. 

First,  Iran refuses Obama’s invitation for a “sit down,”  and now,  Brazil does the same.  Kind of funny,  no?   

Source:  see the article in the WaPost,  here.