Are people really making this big a deal about the fact that Obama shook Chavez’s hand. People are freaking out because Venezuela is a socialist country and Chavez is kind of crazy and hates America. Their human rights record sucks and they’re against everything we’re for economically. This isn’t anything we didn’t already know.
There’s another country that’s pretty similar to Venezuela. Its called Cuba and Obama said he was going to try a different tact with them as well, since, as I noted before, our foreign policy with them has worked so well over the last 50 years.
I’m just trying to make the point that people shouldn’t be so surprised.
I’m looking forward to when Obama meets with China for the first time though. We all know that he’s going to shake their hands and smile when he’s talking to them. But its okay when he does it with them because they have a really good human rights record and they’re totally on board with running their economy like ours and having really balanced trade with us.
