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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Although there is nothing inherently offensive about an American president’s shaking hands with an unsavory character who is the leader of another country, I do find it most instructive that President Obama (evidently) regards John Boehner—and the Republican Party in general—as The Enemy; whereas he appears to see Raul Castro as a sort of colleague...
"I bow to you Rauol in recognitin of the accomplishments made by you and your brother. I'd plant a kiss on you if I knew you weren't offended by the attentions of a gay caballero.
Some have claimed that those that own and lead the so called USA liberal masses around by their clueless noses, are actually scheming Communist Bolshevik Marxists looking to do to America what they did to the Russians.
Others have said that’s just an absurd conspiracy theory.
We report you decide.
More than that -- an Exalted Cyclops, no less!
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