Creampie cum and amateur….

Sometimes is video is worth a fifty-five gallon drum of vomit:     Sometimes the follow-up that confirms what nauseated you the first time brings insatiable waves of the dry heaves:     And sometimes somebody has to vacuum…

Obama could have shaken Chavez’s hand in a presidential manner, not as if he was greeting a long lost friend with a big goofy grin and two hands clasping to underscore his joy at the encounter.

Obama did not have to remark on how he is a book reader (I am not being paranoid to interpret a dig at President Bush there, he who in fact is a voracious reader) and could have and should have included some pro-American comment along with his words on accepting the tome.

But also on Ortega, Obama did NOT merely make a “quip” about the length of Ortega’s diatribe. He said:

“I’m grateful that President Ortega did not blame me for things that happened when I was three months old,” Obama said, to laughter and applause from the other leaders.

When I heard this I was appalled. Charles Krauthammer had the same reaction and noted on today’s Fox News roundtable that Obama’s narcissism apparently knows no bounds. He’s not there representing himself, he’s representing this country. Yet he again gives tacit endorsement to the content of Ortega’s rant and also manages to work in a reference to himself.

Unreal.

Let’s please try to focus and comment on what really happened and was said and then we can discuss whether we’re being fair rather than misrepresenting in order to appear so.

Just wait, he’ll change his tune once one of these guys stink palm him.

Seriously, you would think that his handlers would want to avoid a grip and grin so that when one of these thugs does something “embarrassing” there will not be a Rumsfeld/Saddam type photo getting plastered everywhere.

rw on April 20, 2009 at 3:22 PM

Chavez called him an ignoramous before the handshake, if memory serves. It’s kind of hard to imagine where Obama’s line is, but is there any doubt he is the very model of a beta male at this point?

Should we scold Obama for shaking Chavez’ hand?

It depends. Does Chavez have any highly communicable diseases?

The “point” of attending the conference was to bring the US down to the level of the banana republics.

notagool on April 20, 2009 at 6:16 PM

Exactly.

2 years of campaigning exposing 2+ decades of his radical Leftist background and 5 months in office as President and usually intelligent bloggers on the Right *still* cannot figure out why Obama does what he does. If even righty bloggers like Ed are still clueless, — or continuing to play dumb — then it’s no surprise that 60+ million Americans were clueless back in November (and the vast majority of those people are still bowing down and worshiping at the altar of Obama to this day).

This really is sad. Ed, I respect your blogging and op-eds a great deal, but this playing dumb about why Obama is doing what he is doing is really getting old. Not just by you, mind you, but by most bloggers and pundits on the Right. 2+ damn decades of background. Come on! Add it all up and connect the damn dots already, would you please?

This is like what the Left does with Operation Iraqi Freedom and the “War on Terror”. They ignore 10-15 years of terrorism and Saddam’s actions leading up to 2001-2003 and call it all BS. That is exactly what you and many others on the right are now doing with Obama. You’re ignoring 2+ decades of his background and all the corruption and lies during his campaign and just analyzing his actions as President in a political vacuum. I expect this kind of nonsense from the Left, not the Right.

huh?

Obama isn’t tweaking at the edges with the US’s traditions and public policies. He’s thrown them in the toilet and he’s jammin in Obamanation as quickly as the press can keep up.

The “point” of attending the conference was to bring the US down to the level of the banana republics.

Letting Ortega’s rant pass with just a quip about its length, though, deserves some scorn. If the President doesn’t want to defend his country at these international gatherings from unfair diatribes, what’s the point of attending at all?

Exactly. Obama didn’t have the cojones to get up and walk out but some Europeans at least did when they walked out on Ahmadinejad today. A conference we refused to attend, by the way.

50-minute rant? – Definitely need to counter. Also, need to highlight the state of affairs in those nations which promote socialism and authoritarianism. However, I really didn’t expect Obama do that because he is (a) non-confrontational (spineless?) and (b) he might just agree with those anti-American sentiments. He probably does harbor some ill will towards America as it has been in the past, imagining all of the evils and ill will that the Left believes about America (the *worst* of all possible worlds).

I’ve already come to grips with the idea that America is on its way into history, that the fall is inevitable so this pandering to dictators and mini-men does nothing but speed the process and in my mind, its better to rip off the bandaid and get it over with than to suffer for years on end (which we’ll still probably do). Just call me Eeyore.

Nope:

http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2009/04/20/explain-again-to-me-why-this-is-a-scandal/

Nuff said.

getalife on April 20, 2009 at 3:15 PM

You aren’t really that ignorant are you? We had diplomatic relations with those people at the times of the photos. We do not have diplomatic relations with Venezuela. This was at the very least a break in protocol, but it really is simply Chavez owning Obama. It was not pre-arranged by Obama and other heads of state as in the past. It was Chavez all the way, and the book gift was a real gem for Hugo too. Barack has been had, and that is what is so embarrassing about the incident.

Letting Ortega’s rant pass with just a quip about its length, though, deserves some scorn. If the President doesn’t want to defend his country at these international gatherings from unfair diatribes, what’s the point of attending at all?

Ed — Why would Obama *not* give Ortega’s rant a pass, when he clearly agrees with it? He sat in TUCC for 20 years listening to similar crap and agreed with it. His background clearly shows that he agrees with America’s enemies about America. What’s the point of attending? To show his allegiance with these people, duh.

Have you and everyone else just decided to not put anything Obama has been doing the last 2 years into context with his 2-decade background of being mentored by racists, socialists, communists, Marxists and America-haters?

Seriously, wake up. Why is anyone surprised here? The man agrees with our enemies. If you need to, go back and read up on Obama’s background, read up on Rev Wright’s mentoring of him, read up on Billy Ayers’ mentoring of him, read up on all the policies and America-hating with which Obama agrees with his mentors and these enemies of capitalism and America.

Please, stop being so dense as to why Obama is doing this stuff. It is plainly obvious: he agrees with them.

Obama isn’t apologizing about the last 8 years of the Bush Administration, he’s apologizing for America’s entire history. Obama’s CHANGE is not about changing and transforming America back to Clinton from Bush, but changing and transforming America of the last 200+ years into a new Obama America, which is the vision of Wright, Ayers and people such as Chavez and Castro.

Please, stop looking at this in a gawddamned political vacuum and put this in proper context. We are never going to wake people up to this man’s plans for America and prevent it from happening by getting enough people to vote him out of office if we can’t even build up the courage to call him out for what he is.

Should we scold Obama for shaking Chavez’ hand?

If the MSM and the left can criticize Bush for defendng America, then we can criticize Obama for shaking hands with a terrorist supporting communist dictator and accepting a book that bashes the U.S.

Yes we can.

However, the criticism that there wasn’t even a token remark made on behalf of the United States?

That’s the issue.

The drug addled hippies are in charge now, American is DOOMED.

kirkill on April 20, 2009 at 4:55 PM

But that’s still a step up from the idiot and idiots who were in charge for the last 7 years.

Idiots vs Drug addicts … hmmm, give me the drug addicts any day.