Posted by
Rich from NW Indiana on Sunday, April 19, 2009 5:42:48 PM
Foreigners continue to test Obama. He continues to fail and look like the inexperienced naive person in foreign policy that he is. Dictator Chavez is the latest to do so.
He hands Obama the nasty left wing book, (in spanish to boot, not that he could even read it, former President Bush knows spanish, Obama doesn't) "Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent" by Eduardo Galeano.
It just another America sucks and causes all of our problems type of book. A waste of time and paper. Chavez reads all that socialist nonsense, but Obama shouldn't. If he does, which is possible since Obama is that type, is the message is wrong. Latin America is corrupt no matter what others do.
But taking that book from him was totally stupid. Granted he caught him off guard, but he should have been thinking about stunts from people like Chavez. Now its everywhere. The cameras are always following Obama, but rarely do they shine on Chavez. Not that Chavez really wants the questions that should come with cameras, due to the damage he is doing to his country. He really does want the positive coverage from the American and European press, which he got.
Obama got used big time!
Update: 4-23-09. Good article by
Michael Reagan about this handshake.
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