Barack's Newest Buddy

Was there ever any doubt that this meeting and photo would occur?

Obama, Chavez shake hands at Americas Summit

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) - Presidents Barack Obama and Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's socialist leader, met Friday and shook hands on the sidelines of a summit of their hemisphere's democracies.

Obama walked across a hotel meeting room to meet Chavez for the first time, said a senior U.S. administration official who witnessed it and spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the details of the event. The official said Obama initiated the encounter.

Chavez has been a fierce critic of the United States during President George W. Bush's tenure.

"It was very, very short," the official said of Friday's meeting. "The president shook his hand, smiled and then went back to his position in the line."

The encounter comes as Obama softens U.S. policy against Cuba, a Chavez ally.

Asked later about the meeting, Obama elicited laughter from reporters with a brief response: "I said, 'Como estas?'"

That's the familiar form of Spanish for "How are you?"

Chavez was more forthcoming with reporters.

"We shook each other's hands like gentlemen, and it was predictable this would happen," Chavez said.

"We don't have any complexes that would prevent us from extending our hands to each other. I'm grateful for his gesture."

All smiles and handshakes, yet it was the Venezuelan media who got this photo out to the world first. Makes you wonder what the American press corps traveling with the president was up to. Did they miss it? Or was it just to0 much for them to grasp and comprehend and report to the folks back home. (or were they too embarrassed?)

The messianic one has said all along, that he would be more than happy to coddle up to America's enemies once he was president. What he didn't let on was the fact that he would personally enjoy belittling this country in front of the world. As he has been demonstrating now for the past two weeks. All smiles and handshakes and bows at the appropriate times it seems.

And now after his bowing stunt to the King of Saudi Arabia at the G20 meeting two weeks ago, I'll bet he couldn't wait to get to this meeting of the Americas for his photo ops with his newest buddy the socialist/communist dictator of Venezuela.

And before this trip is over? Look to see photos of him cuddling with Raul Castro of Cuba and yucking it up for the cameras again.

Thank you for nothing mr. president (lower case as intentional emphasis) and here's a tip. If you feel compelled to continue to embarrass yourself on the world stage? Try to remember that you are representing this country in your limited capacity to understand the responsibility that you have. And the rest of this nation that didn't vote for your sorry ass are watching and remembering and taking note of the buffoon that now wears the title of president of this country.

And guess what? When it comes to you? We are dissidents. Remember that term? The one that the democrats have clung to for the past eight years that according to them? Was more than indicative of their patriotism? Well get use to it buddy boy, cause you have engendered and entirely new wave of patriotism in America. And those sentiments will continue to grow exponentially as the people of this country are exposed daily to just who and what you are.