Obama's Latin Education

Obama Gets History Lesson From Latin American Leaders

From the looks of it? President Obama has a lot to learn concerning international gamesmanship and political intercourse. And he has more than a few new teachers interested in tutoring and lecturing him at this years summit of the Americas meeting in Trinidad.

From the remarks of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, who each voiced their complaints against America's drug wars in Latin America to the American president, to their desire to see the 47 year old embargo against Cuba brought to an end. On all counts and in all corners the messianic one was taken to the wood shed and give the Latin equivalent of his comeuppance by the assembled tutelage of Latin America.

He asked for it after all. He came with head bowed and embracing defeat and contrition once again, to believed appreciation of tin horn dictators and other tin dicks, as he arrived to the watching eyes of the world for his latest meeting with Latin leaders. What else should have been expected? And man oh man did he get an earful from his new Latin friends.

President Fernandez of Argentina was probably one of the more direct and forceful presences when confronting the junior president from America and had this to say:

“For many years, there have been traumatic relations,” Fernandez said. “I want you to know, Obama, that this is in no way a reproach against you. It’s simply an exercise to look back at what happened.”

(note the absence of official title while addressing the American president. Just the "I want you to know Obama")

The messianic one may have thought that the best way to approach his fallacious American image rebuilding program with the other leaders of the world, was by continually throwing the previous administration and it's polices under the bus, but the reality is shaping up to be something far from what the novice of international diplomacy ever imagined.

As he is discovering, he can no longer stand outside the circle of assembled socialists and Marxists and launch his own barbs in unison at the evil beast America as he has done in the past. Seeing as he is now center stage and center ring and the bullseye is now attacked to his own backside by our enemies by default.

Whether he will learn anything from his recent meetings at the G20 and now this one with Latin American leaders remains to be seen. As does the level and extent of long term damage to the United States by a contrite and submissive US president.

From Venezuela's Chavez, who last month referred to Obama as an "ignoramus" to the present greetings he received from Daniel Ortega and Cristina Fernandez collectively, it is becoming more and more apparent as each day passes, that whatever fear or anger toward America that may have existed under the Bush administration against America, has not been replaced by any love or admiration simply because we have a new president and he is supposedly an understanding socialist. And if anything is becoming more and more apparent, it is that Obama's contrite and apologetic approach to these meetings with his new friends, combined with his bowing presence to the Islamic world, has more than left an impression on the rest of the world of a weak America.


Little big man Hugo Chavez of Venezuela even gave Obama a Spanish-language copy of Uruguayan historian Eduardo Galeano’s book “Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent.”

I suppose he has been watching Obama's gift giving of late and decided that it was an appropriate offering for his Yankee socialist cousin.

And even Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva let the junior G man have it and told him that holding any further summits of the Americas in the absence of participation of Cuba was simply unacceptable.

I wonder if Obama is beginning to understand the feeling of the old lion being pushed aside by the pride of lesser lions of the plains? As he stands before them in his purposely tattered attire and bearing his non threatening and toothless grin. What else did he expect on the world stage of king of the hill and the herd mentality of attack, attack, attack?

None of these little junior wanabes is capable of inflicting any serious damage against the lion that is America, even in it's weakened state, but their efforts combined can have the same effect as the Spaniard's "estoque" on the bull. Enough thrusts from enough directions and eventually the most formidable of foes can be reduced to it's knees and dealt the final death blow.

Almost without exception, the common theme of the combined attack against the American president this past week, seems to center on the pressure to allow the viper (Cuba) into the tent of respected nations. Almost all of these Latin presidents and socialist dictators are demanding parity for Cuba. And they equally let it be known to the messianic one, that his recent policy changes on easing travel and the status of Cuba by America just doesn't go far enough.

They want complete surrender by the Yankee president on the Cuban issue. And you know what? They will get it. By this time next year, people will be shaking hands and smiling with our newest best friends forever Cuba.

It appears that Cuba is symbolically important to many of these Latin leaders and tyrants, as their own checkered paths to glory have followed a similar revolutionary path. Therefore, it seems the least they can do is to get Cuba and the old man Fidel his and Cuba's just rewards. And the messianic one is playing right along. " “equal partnership” with other countries in the Americas. Regional leaders “cannot let ourselves be prisoners of past disagreements,” Obama said.

Nor did his subsequent remarks hold any sway over the assembled gallery when he said? "“You can’t blame the U.S. for every problem in this hemisphere,” Obama said. “I am very grateful that President Ortega didn’t blame me for things that happened when I was three months old.”

Was this an attempt at a fall back position by the one? Much the same as the one he used during his campaign when attempting to dodge responsibility for friendship and kinship with the communist anarchist William Ayers? It certainly struck me in that fashion. Just another example of Barack Obama attempting to outrun and distance himself from anything that he senses as personally damaging.

Although what he was really saying if you listen to his words, was not so much that you can't blame America for problems in the hemisphere, as much as you can't blame me. What the junior G man continues to fail to grasp? Is that he is now the living and breathing effigy of everything that these second rate and wanton tyrants have always hated about America. It makes them no difference that he is a committed socialist or that he is engaged in the process of serving up America to the weaker second hand lions of the world.

Suffice it to say, that the man just doesn't get it but he will. And so will the rest of us.