 Posted 4/21/2009 3:40:31 PM
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Obama, caught a lot of flack in the U.S for shaking hands with Chavez, someone who is seen as Anti-American. Some critics said he appeared too jovial in shaking Chavez's hand. His joviality may be interpreted as american weakness. Most political analysts agreed however that only future relations between Venezuela and the U.S will show if the handshake helped or harmed. I did not see the actual handshake but I know body language can be important. Still I wonder if these political analysts and politicians are not taking thinks too far. Even if Obama was too jovial when he shook Chavez's hand, what about that old saying about keeping your friends close..but your enemies closer? ( SOmething like that)
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Posted 4/22/2009 2:47:37 PM
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I agree with you though I don't think you have gone enough to denounce the BS perpetuate in this society. Have you think to ask- "what does it mean to be Anti-American?" Does it mean that you don't Jazz, can't appreciate appreciate Rap and not astonished by the beauty of yellow stone park, The Petrified Forest or the Grand Canyons? How would Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr- Some of history's harshest critics of the American policy, be classified.
What makes Chavez an enemy of the United State? Is it that criticism of American policies- foreign and domestic? This is the same leader who came to aid of Hurricane Catrina's victims while the Bush 2nd allow them to suffer for days. This is the same leader who for years have donated oil to heat the home of poor people in the Bronx and Queens in New York.
What he has done to be demonize is to say what most foreign leaders know bu tare afraid to say- What he has done is, like Fidel, stand up to American big stick policies.
But also notice the hypocrisies- it was the same critics (Cheney and cohorts) who not only hosted, but gave red carpet treatment to The Chinese leader, and a few Iraqi and Afghan warlords.
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