I think this says it all right here folks, this one via Fox News:
President Obama shook hands with Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez on Friday at the opening of the Summit of the Americas being held this weekend in Trinidad and Tobago.
Photos released by the Venezuelan government show Obama clasping Chavez’s hand and smiling broadly, and Venezuela
Hope and Change?!?!
quoted Chavez as saying, “I’d like to be your friend,” while noting that he shook President Bush’s hand eight years ago with the same hand. Obama reportedly expressed thanks.
A senior White House official said the encounter came before the summit’s opening ceremonies during a meeting with the heads of state. Obama talked to many of the 25 or so leaders who were there at the time. At one point, he walked across the room and introduced himself to Chavez.
The official wouldn’t directly confirm Venezuela’s version of the encounter but didn’t dispute it. Chavez spoke in English, the official said.
Earlier Friday, Dan Restrepo, the president’s top Western Hemisphere adviser on the National Security Council, had told FOX News Obama might cross paths with Chavez.
“A chance encounter if it occurs,” Restrepo said, in describing such a meeting. “Let’s put the animosities behind us. Let’s not have old arguments.
“Let’s not have tired ideological arguments. Let’s get down to figuring out how we can advance things that are in our national interest. Things that matter to the United States that should matter to Venezuela. Putting the arguments and ideologies of the past aside and working on pragmatic solutions to real problems that face our countries today,” he said.
As far as I am concerned, he may as well been shaking hands with Karl Marx. It is the same thing. Chavez is a known Communist, and Obama is a known Socialist. You are who you hang around. Two birds flock together. We were warned in the election that Barack Obama was nothing more than a radical left candidate and now, he’s proven it. On top of this, he is wanting to basically normalize relations with Cuba; a known Communist country as well.
What’s next, an ambassador to Al-Qaeda in Washington D.C.? I mean, you laugh or scoff at my words? But when does the slippery slope end? When do we say, enough is enough? How can someone; who has been charged with upholding and defending our Constitution, make allies with people like this? America is about to learn a cold, hard lesson, of why you do not elect people, based upon a personality.
I fear for our Nation, greatly. 🙁
Naw– I’m not laughing or scoffing at you for these words. It is all just as we feared during the election, only much worse, with new Leftist twists and turns with every passing week. But a glimmer of hope: tonight on Hannity, even top Democrat stategist Douglas Schoen was deploring the grinning enthusiasm Obama showed Chavez, branding it an obvious PR coup for Chavez and the rest of the commies down there. Schoen also clearly disparaged various of Obama’s recent international misteps. If one of this ilk can be this turned off, there is ample reason to expect that many others will be also, over time (and not that long a time).
Quite true Zack.
Thanks for the comments. 😀
-Pat
Bush shook hands with Chavez too. Was Bush a socialist? Maybe these two presidents shook hands with Chavez because he is also a president? And they were at the Summit of Americas together? I mean, really. The stupid, it burns.
Um, I’ve never seen any pictures of him, shaking hands with Chevez, ever, you’re lying or your a loon.
Yeah, you’d know, considering who you voted for. Stupid liberal twit, get real. 🙄
Pat; Skylights: I too have read that Bush, about 8 years back, shook hands with Chavez. But even if this is true– and it may possibly be, I haven’t checked it yet this morning– that was well before Chavez’ real political depravities and totalitarian depths had come into full flower. Also, I doubt that the Bush handshake was the kind of super-enthusiastically grinning affair that the several photos of Obama/Chavez are, in which the two look to be life-long buddies: prime imagery for the communist Chavez regime to utilize in spreading propaganda to the effect that “Obama supports me 100%” and etc.
I SAW WHAT ronnierayguns did to NICARAGUA. THEY wanted guns to get rid of OUR brutal dictator. THE USA.CORP BACKED OUR DICTATOR. the USA.CORP tried to oust CHAVEZ TO CONTROL THE OIL. The people of the rest of the AMERICAS are tired of THEIR LAND being raped by CORP.USA. Like NIGERIA, where poor people see the wealth, while dying in poverty, DEMAND A SHARE. bush ran the USA.CORP aground. OBAMMER WAS PUT INTO OFFICE BY THE SAME ONES THAT PUT IN BUSH, CLINTON, BUSH, RAYGUNS. LOOK at the people running the show. THE FED, MONSANTO, GOLDMAN/SUCKS, FANNIE… THERE IS NO CHANGE.
Quite true, indeed
“Keep your friends close and keep your enemies closer”.
Quite true. 😀