Posted on 12/10/2013 6:36:42 AM PST by Innovative
The US president, Barack Obama, shook hands with his Cuban opposite number, Raul Castro, at the memorial service for Nelson Mandela
The handshake between the two historic enemies came as they attended a ceremony in Johannesburg to celebrate the late South African leader's ability to foster reconciliation.
The gesture - which comes despite half a century of hostilities - came as Mr Obama made his way to a podium to deliver a speech. It is only the second time ever that a US president has shaken the hands of a Cuban Communist leader. President Bill Clinton was the first to do so in 2000 after a lunch during a United Nations summit in New York, when he shook hands with Mr Castro's brother, Fidel.
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Which brings to mind...
Does Barrack Hussien Obama even respect himself???
I mean really, think about it...We know he has an extreme narcassistic (sp?) condition...Most of the people around him are “yes” men and women...He has a wife and a marraige that is more than likely a love-less relationship now...
The only female that I know about, that has him by the cajones is that communist POS Valarie Jarrett...
If he truely respected this country and its citizens, would we be having this conversation???
The bastard (acknowledged) son of a Cuban planter aristocrat- who went to the finest Jesuit schools and became a lawyer from Havana U., creates a prison island plantation of his own communistic slaves, rips off all the money from the seized private property of legal Cubans and US companies. Takes the money and sends it to Bank of Cuba in the City of London, and to Swiss banks. An international terrorist psycho and friend of Jimmah Cahtah. A cocaine smuggler/enabler to this day.
He shakes hand with anti-communist Quaker Richard Nixon, whom the left ran out of office because their book of whores was discovered in the Watergate breakin (done without Nixon’s knowledge by his psycho loyalists)— and one of the whores was John Dean’s wife. This is the truth. And the whole thing could have been avoided, because there was NO way McGovern was ever going to win the presidency.
But, it is important to know the provenance of all these connections. The Castros are a criminal conspiracy— the usual S. American dictator ripoffs. All in the style of Patrice Lumumba, Mugabe.... and NELSON MANDELA and his charming ex-wife Winnie”Necklace” Mandela.
You can’t make this stuff up. And the millions who have suffered and died for freedom— you can’t make that up either. Pray for their Peace wherever they now lie.
Which THAT White House initially denied (WaPo) at the time.
Hilarious.
Brothers don’t shake hands! Brothers hug. (Tommy Boy)
Well, it's not that unusual...
5.56mm
That’s the ole Bowbama! Bowing to the communist!
Christiane Amanpour(sp?) was gidding like a teenage girl at a rock concert, as she excitedly reported Obama shaking Castro’s hand. Unbelievable.......
Raul think: “This guys an idiot, and I already own him without firing a shot”
Obozo: “I only hope that my pres__dency is as successful as your brother’s reign (of terror)”
Censure and MoveOn.org.
Looks like he is bending over in another bow to me. Kissing the ring.
What a horrible president.
What is it when they kiss?
There’s the bow again.
Raul Castro is NOT 'his opposite' number. Raul is his blood brother, his first cousin, his homie, his next of kin... Really, gimme a break...
obama to Raul: “how you doing buddy, nice to see you!”
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