PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad - President Obama offered a spirit of cooperation to America's hemispheric neighbors at a summit yesterday, listening to complaints about past US meddling and even reaching out to Venezuela's leftist leader.
While he worked to ease friction between the United States and their countries, Obama cautioned leaders at the Summit of the Americas to resist a temptation to blame all their problems on their behemoth neighbor to the north....
Hey, man, if the shoe fits...
To Latin American nations reeling from a sudden plunge in exports, Obama promised a new hemispheric growth fund, an initiative to increase Caribbean security, and a partnership to develop alternative energy sources and fight global warming.
Same old agenda-pushing garbage despite the "change."
As the first full day of meetings began on the two-island nation of Trinidad and Tobago, Obama exchanged handshakes and pats on the back with Venezuela's Hugo Chávez, who once likened President George W. Bush to the devil....
Later, during a group photo, Obama reached behind several leaders to shake Chávez's hand for the third time. Obama summoned a translator and the two smiled and spoke briefly. Those two exchanges followed a brief grip-and-grin for cameras on Friday night when Obama greeted Chávez in Spanish. "I think it was a good moment," Chávez said about their initial encounter. "I think President Obama is an intelligent man, compared to the previous US president."
I'm starting to wonder. If he's smarter than Bush he should know buildings don't fall like that on 9/11. If Obama is smarter then he's also more evil to continue with the lie.
And look at the MSM turning a couple of handshakes into "change."
How disgraceful!
In front of photographers, Chávez gave Obama a copy of "The Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent," a book by Eduardo Galeano that chronicles US 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 Chávez's 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.
What, Obama not read like Bush? Either way, Obama issued another insult to another world figure and nation. I'll tell you one thing: I never bought or read his shit-ass books.
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Bolivia President Evo Morales, a close ally of Chávez, said Obama's pledge of a new era of mutual respect toward Latin America rings hollow.
Same as everything else he says.
"Obama said three things: There are neither senior or junior partners. He said relations should be of mutual respect, and he spoke of change," Morales said. "In Bolivia . . . one doesn't feel any change. The policy of conspiracy continues."
Morales expelled US ambassador Philip Goldberg in September and kicked out the Drug Enforcement Administration the next month for allegedly conspiring with the political opposition to incite violence.
Yeah, it's one of the tools in our coup playbook!
Chávez expelled the US ambassador in Venezuela in solidarity. The Bush administration subsequently suspended trade preferences to Bolivia that Bolivian business leaders say could cost 20,000 jobs.
Obama also extended a hand to Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega, whom President Reagan spent years trying to drive from power. Ortega was ousted in 1990 elections that ended Nicaragua's civil war, but was returned to power by voters in 2006. Ortega stepped up and introduced himself to Obama, US officials said. But a short time later, Ortega delivered a blistering 50-minute speech that denounced capitalism and US imperialism as the root of much hemispheric mischief.
Yeah, and the falsity there, MSM?
The address even recalled the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, though Ortega said the new US president could not be held to account for that.
Look at how the anti-Sandinista Globe makes Ortega out to be a dink!
Hey, look, he won elections and he didn't fund a covert army with illegal weapons sales to overthrow a government, 'kay?
"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.
Yeah, not you personally, but the point he was making is WE HAVE A LOT TO APOLOGIZE FOR, 'bamer!!
Wanna be a uniter? Look in your nation's mirror first!
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Maybe he did:
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago - .... The United States has nothing to fear from Venezuela, a large supplier of crude oil to the United States, Obama said. "Its defense budget is probably 1/600th of the US," he said. "They own Citgo. It's unlikely that as a consequence of me shaking hands or having a polite conversation with Mr. Chavez that we are endangering the strategic interests of the United States."--more--"
