Tee Hee.... couldn't resist.

Don't Spread My Wealth.... Spread My Work Ethic

I think donkeys bray...

Hey bird-brain,

I never implied that it was o.k. to buddy up with murderous dictators - Wasn't Rummy fired after all?

It's not o.k., and barry was supposed to offer "change" in the way things were done in the past. You libs are seem to be bogged down in the past with your "but, but, but, Bush!" response every time someone questions barry's actions.

It does make a lot of patriotic Americans angry that we now have a president that has made it part of his policy to visit foreign lands, listen to a bunch of thugs unfairly denigrat the U.S. without so much as a peep from him, and then watch him go on to bash the U.S. himself.

barry's no leader - he's an embarrassment to our great nation.

The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a
happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the
other. -- Ronald Reagan

Republicans don't understand diplomacy even when there is no realistic alternative. Bluster and threaten and intimidate and when that doesn't work withdraw in an isolationist pout fest while the world goes on and American influence is diminished. We couldn't talk to the North Korean because they're in the axis of evil. The Republican/neocon solution was to try to implement the almost criminally naive policy of trying to isolate the one country in the world which strives to isolate itself, to what end I never could figure out. When that didn't work the neocons got together and talked really tough to each other about how North Korea had better shape up or else they'd have John Bolton, then the U.S. Ambassador to the UN, give a speech! Kim Il Sung could not have cared less. Ignoring the Bolton/Cheney cabal's meaningless rhetoric, the North Koreans merrily continued to develop their nuclear weapons. But the neocons had maintained their ideological purity! Same failed story with Iran. Spout meaningless threats while doing nothing. Pretend Ahmadinejad is the power there. Rule out all engagement and wring their hands in despair while the Iranians develop their nuclear weapons capability too. And Chavez? A tin-horn would be dictator who draws considerable support from those illiterate masses in his country who believe him when he claims the U.S. is going to invade or impose sanctions or otherwise threaten them. The Republicans and their neocon policies played right into Chavez, Ahmadinejad, and Kim Il Sung's hands.

What are the Venezuelans going to think now when they see Obama smiling and shaking hands with Chavez? Obama conceded nothing and gained a propaganda coup with the gesture. The neocons might sneer, the abject failure of their policies never affecting their thought processes, but Obama has taken a giant step toward reestablishing U.S. influence and prestige in Latin America. That's a huge change and a total repudiation of the ineffectual policies of the past eight years. Good for him.