PLEASE SEE THE UPDATE DOWN BELOW.
But........all I could think of was.....Chavez now? Who do you think we'll honor next? And, Michelle Obama got teased for touching the QUEEN?UPDATE: (read the "Update" linked article, it's quite something) From the article: "Chavez gave Obama a copy of "The Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent," a book by Eduardo Galeano, which chronicles U.S. and European economic and political interference in the region.
When a reporter asked Obama what he thought of the book, the president replied: "I thought it was one of Chavez' books. I was going to give him one of mine." White House advisers said they didn't know if Obama would read it or not."
Also: "While he worked to ease friction between the U.S. and leaders at the Summit of the Americas, Obama cautioned them to resist a temptation to blame all their problems on their behemoth neighbor to the North.
"I have a lot to learn and I very much look forward to listening and figuring out how we can work together more effectively," Obama said."
Finally! TWO things I agree with Obama on.
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Those whom a man so admires will reveal the character of the man doing the admiring.
And, in the cases pictured here, we have two of the most oppressive rulers on the planet.
I wonder how friendly BHO will be toward Ahmadinejad, should the two get together. Never mind. I already know!
And BHO's supporters will continue to say, "He's mending our broken foreign relations." Pfffft! The truth is this: BHO is emboldening our enemies, America-hating despots.
It's so presidential when obama fistbumps and gangbang shakes hands with the third world despots and dictators and enemies of freedom. In other words, obama's blood brothers in arms.
There really needs to be a mechanism in place for recall of national leaders.
Greywolfe, you hit the nail on the head. Just sickening is this situation, but not one bit surprising. We knew this would happen Nov. 4 & far before. God help us.
I did write about it. It's getting to where there are no more anti-American, terrorist supporting leaders he hasn't embraced.
Geeez,
As you can imagine, I am livid. I posted on this and no one even seems to realize that we still have no Ambassador in Caracas because Chavez sent him away. Obama is ignoring diplomatic protocol with this gesture, or more likely, does not even know about it.
Birds of a feather flock together.
(All I ever need to know I learned in kindergarten)
There really needs to be a mechanism in place for recall of national leaders.There is. It's called "recall how stupid we were to elect an idiot in the first place."
It's also called elections. We can practice how this works in 2010 when we empty out the entire US House of Representatives. This will help us to move toward 2012 with every confidence that we Americans have had enough of leftist stupidity ... and maybe even, for all time.
Meanwhile, we have to put up with Øbama as a punishment for our national stupidity, and it does seem to be an appropriate and very expensive reminder how important national elections truly are.
But I'm not sure we're keeping our eye on the ball. How many have even forgotten what ACORN is getting ready to do to our census, and congressional redistricting, and the Electoral College?
JM....no ambassador to Venezuela and we're holding his hand in OURS. imagine? Thanks for that ...great point.
All of us should be outraged and I knew you all would be.
Mustang; you should see the pictures Germany saw of the Tea Parties (did I send them to you?) ..some were so posed, so grotesque; things NO PICTURES of coverage here showed... even on CNN. It seems they were carefully posed for the most negative results.
ACORN is winning...dishonesty and nontransparency and even lying and cheating are winning. That's our new gov't. Remember when O promised ACORN they'd be talking with him in the WH even before his inauguration so he could represent their points of view?
Imagine if he'd thought of representing the half of America which is honest and wouldn't dream of this kind of cheating? Maybe we'd have had a chance.
Well, they used to chop off people's heads for touching the queen, Z. LOL!
I thought about Jungle Mom when I read about this. I knew she would be even more furious than I am. She had to leave Venezuela because of Chavez, and now our president looks as though he absolutely loves Chavez! ARRRGH! Regarding the bow which the White House denies, the only other plausible explanation would be that Obama is kissing his hand. It sure wouldn't surprise me!
Hi Z,
my e-mail to you still getting kicked back.
Pris
Pris, I don't know if you got my email after I saw this one from you but, just in case, this is just to let you know I just checked my backup (we just finally set to keep emails for 24 hours before it deletes) and every email that got there did get into my INBOX, so I don't know what's happening with yours. I'm so sorry!! I know you said others are getting yours...maybe it's a glitch time will cure, I hope so!
Barry is blatantly flaunting his love for tyrants and tyranny. Looking at his past associations, should we be surprised?
i would consider a huge insult if I was Barry o.(about the book)
He wants everyone to be kissing cousins while ignoring the problems that are real
Yeah, Z, in answer to your question "Who's next?" --it's what Chuck said: there AREN'T any more despots left to hug! Oh I guess there are still some tribal leaders in Africa of one butchering trannical sect or another, but as far as the big guns I'd say he's made pretty good headway. With Ahmadinejad I understand he plans to share a hookah.
If NOTHING ELSE, folks, don't you THINK Obama just MIGHT be sensitive that MOST AMERICANS DON'T ADMIRE CHAVEZ?
I mean, you can't run a presidency based only upon your Harvard elitist friends, CAN YOU?
Even Democrats can't be thrilled about this behavior.
I'm NOT (don't kill me, be patient here!) TOTALLY against lines of communication with enemies ...but NOT THE PRESIDENT.....and NOT when they've threatened our lives and insulted America so badly. And NOT when our leftist media and politicians have totally depleted any standing we had in the world with their constant negativity and BLAME AMERICA FIRST mentality.
We have SOMALI skinny little SAVAGES threatening retaliation after our saving OUR GUY and claiming Al Qaeda association to REALLY "get us scared!" (as IF)... IS the world NUTS? We were SO NICE, weren't we? Killed three of the little guys because someone woke Obama up and said "HEy, it's been 36 hours, Americans are getting on to you if you don't do SOMETHING..seize the chance to be a hero!"...and we're THREATENED??? By THEM!?
I appreciated Mrs. Phillips putting ALL THE THANKS on OUR NAVY. (ALL< get it?!)
Z,
I did get that e-mail from you. I have sent out several e-mails today, to different addresses, and all went through, but mine sent to you just now still got kicked back.
Your guess is as good as mine.
Pris
Is any non-Obama voter really surprised by the ghetto-brothers-down-in-the-struggle-against-the-imperialist-whiteys handshake with Chavez?
I'm more surprised that BO, with an ego rivaled in size only by the size of his gargantuan ears, sought out Chavez at the summit instead of Chavez seeking him. That's incredible.
Cube, one article said that he'd reached over 3 'layers' of people to get Chavez' hand at one point......
The idea of being SO friendly with someone who'd referred to him as an IGNORAMUS just 2 weeks ago, let ALONE all the OTHER REALLY HORRID things Chavez has done and said toward America is almost too much to believe.
As I said...Does Mr. Obama not care a BIT about what America thinks? Is there NO caring about our pride, our principles, history, etc..?
Maybe Barak can fix things up with Osama Ben Laudin. He just has to apologize profusely for putting Al Qaida to the trouble of 9-11 and I'm sure all will be forgiven. Once we are all converted to Islam, of course.
"I thought it was one of Chavez' books. I was going to give him one of mine."
And i thought the CDs for gordon brown were bad.
As usual our latest version of Jimmy Carter, strokes our adversaries. It worked so well for Carter, Obama's determined to repeat it.
The left never met an enemy or adversary they didn't like. Obama says he wants to "listen". Well sure, he want's to listen to the America haters, and tin horn dictators. So what else is new for the left?
Meanwhile at home, hundreds of thousands of American citizens across the nation demonstrated their concerns at tea parties, but, our President doesn't want to listen to those voices. They're just Americans who feel disenfranchised from their government.
In fact his talking heads in the media were busy calling us names and dismissing us like naughty children. I understand that at some parties people were there taking down license plate numbers.
Isn't that special?
The great believers in dissent are suddenly not so hot on the idea.
Reporters were found to be arguing with the protesters instead of reporting, and made fools of themselves. As I said, what else is new?
Pris
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