Obama Would Dance to Chavez’s Tune
“Hi, President Chavez. What Can I Do For You?”
By Mark I Posted in 2008 | Barack Obama | foreign policy | Hugo Chavez | Liberals | Obamafiles — Comments (15) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
After weeks of backtracking on his pledge to meet unconditionally with the leaders of Iran, Syria, North Korea, Venezuela, and Cuba, Sen. Barack Obama has doubled down on his dangerous foreign policy naiveté, telling the Orlando Sentinel yesterday that not only would he have no pre-conditions for the meetings, he wouldn’t even have an agenda. Speaking of a future meeting with Venezuelan dictator, and soon to be internationally recognized terrorist supporter, Hugo Chavez, Obama said that whatever Hugo would want to talk about would be just fine with him.
I would be willing to initiate such talks with leaders of countries adversarial to the United States. There would be a lot of preparation. The first steps would not be to pre-judge all the items on the list. […]
One of the obvious high priorities in my talks with President Hugo Chavez would be the fermentation of anti-American sentiment in Latin America, his support of FARC in Colombia and other issues he would want to talk about. It is important to understand that ignoring these countries has not led to improved behavior on their part and it has not served our national security interests.
There needs to be a shift in foreign politics and return to traditional foreign politics that were supported by both Republicans and Democrats in the past.
First of all, it’s difficult to determine from his words whether Sen. Obama believes that the, "fermentation of anti-American sentiment," and Chavez’s, "support of FARC in Colombia," are necessarily bad things. Obama could have said, "the disturbing fermentation of anti-American sentiment," or, "his unacceptable support of the terrorist group FARC in Colombia." But he didn’t. Chavez certainly does not think that his behavior needs to improve. For all we know, Obama doesn’t either. He won’t pre-judge it. Rather he would reward Chavez by granting him the honor of a meeting of equals, complete with unspecified agenda items that would take Chavez’s phony complaints about U.S. imperialism at face value.
Second, if Obama holds so low an opinion of the Office of the Presidency that he would use the office to bend and scrape at the feet of thugs like Hugo Chavez, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Kim Jong-Il, one wonders why he is running for it.
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Unfair. Unbalanced. Unmedicated. -- IMAO
"Even if you think our presidential choices this election year are between disgust and disaster, anyone who has ever been through a real disaster can tell you that this difference is not small. It is big enough to go vote on election day." - Thomas Sowell
I've known to Bozos in my life. Bozo the Clown entertained me during my childhood years for an hour each day after school. A friend of my grandfather was named Bozo. A very nice southern man who moved north to work in the Detroit factories during WWII. A very nice caring man who although very southern and raised in the post Civil War south became close friends with a Yankee farmer.
Admirable traits in both men. The first brought joy, happiness and fun to small children while teaching them values and manners. The later a fine hard working man of strong moral character, pride, and love for family, friends, and country.
Sorry phenomium -- but you should spend more time reading about the great men and women of history -- you are obviously missing something in your education about what makes a person of character -- and what is just smoke and words.
M Penny
You see, you should be referring to a guy above named "Phormium", NOT Phenomium. I don't give a crap about great men or women, they all turn to dirt sooner or later. You are obviously missing something in your observational skills as you should be directing your historical reprimand. I'm not a very agreeable guy all of the time and I get my share of diatribe concerning political views and more but in this case I was no factor at all as Phenomium didn't even have an account here yet. I will never be back either. In summation, you sound like smoke and words to me, forgive the rodomontade but I AM PHENOMIUM and I said nothing to provoke anyone here. I will digress and retrospectively focus on and accept your apology in your first two words. Sorry Phenomium. I accept.
Well-established, aren't we?
like a dog going back to sniff his pile...hmmmm.
This reminds me of some of those westward-moving settlers in the 1870's, who believed that if they just extended a welcoming hand of friendship to the marauding Indians, those guys would just sit down with the, enjoy tea and crumpets, then proceed along their merry way, enriched for the experience. These settlers tended to get tied to wagon wheels and shot full of arrows, after having watched their wives and daughters raped and butchered in front of them.
Macho Bambi, that guy will cost us everything. If they think we had a bad worldwide reputation under Bush, just wait until every tin-pot dictator and local thug routinely leaves treadmarks on the face of America.
THEN, if you think the terrorists will not come and visit us.......
Unfair. Unbalanced. Unmedicated. -- IMAO
"the disturbing fermentation of anti-American sentiment," or, "his unacceptable support of the terrorist group FARC in Colombia."
I don't know if Obama's refusal to use loaded, emotional language to describe such things suggests that he doesn't condemn them. It could just be more of his trademark coolness and lack of emotion.
The only time Obama gets emotional, is when he undergoes pon farr every seven years.
The implications of that regarding Michelle are rather mind-bending...
How can we not talk to Hugo, what good does that do when we are quite happy at sending him and his State owned oil company about $5 billion a month in good ole USA currency.
We will probably wind up sending Hugo $50-60 billion dollars in 2008, maybe even allot more if oil hits $150-200 a barrel which it will soon.
We are currently subservient to Hugo's oil !
it will:
(1) weaken the morale of disidents in Venezuala
(2) strengten Hugo's grip on the country (who is going to even think about acting against the government in even small ways if the US supports him?)
(3) encourage other nations to give Hugo a closer look and the hand of friendship
(4) allow Hugo to (with the assistance of Western media) engage in the US President in a rope-a-dope.
It took Nixon to go to China. It took Reagan to deal with the Soviets. Obama is not the guy to talk to any of these thugs. He is naive. They will play him like a violin.
Citco as it exists in the US is a company behaving as any other company would.
I can't believe this guy is a serious candidate. The dems keep offering weaker and weaker leaders.
Its only a matter of time before someone who really does hate America gets the D nomination
McCain is a bozo.