BAM'S LATIN LOVERS: PRESIDENT'S HUGS FOR THUGS

NY Post ^ | April 21, 2009 | Raloh Peters

[Scanian]

MY president went to Trin idad and Tobago, and all I got was this lousy Che Guevara T-shirt.

At a Caribbean resort, Obama grinned through a semi-erotic encounter with Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, then failed to answer a "strategic rape" charge lodged against America by ex-Sandinista Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua (who knows plenty about rape).

Ignoring America's allies in favor of photo ops with anti-American leftists, such as Ecuador's Rafael Correa and Chavez, Obama blamed the United States for Latin America's problems.

Whoa! Plenty of US policies toward Latin America have been misguided and myopic. But the primary causes of political, economic and social failure from the Rio Grande to Tierra del Fuego have been homemade.

Until Latin American states accept responsibility for what generations of corrupt, oppressive leaders did to their own countries, they won't progress beyond their self-destructive cultures of blame.

It's easy to chant, "Yanquis, go home!" Well, the Yankees went home. And only such countries as Chile, Colombia and, increasingly, Brazil, which have taken responsibility for their own futures, are making progress.

[screaminsunshine]

Obama is a fellow traveler. What do you expect?

[wastoute]

I lived in Latin America for 4 years. The problem with their societies is "the mordida". We have had no part in that, it was left over from the SPanish and continues today. The mordida is "the bribe". Corruption. It is a fact of everyday life and one cannot escape it. Their economies suffer because no one will risk capital investment in a place where the costs of corruption erode profit. It is that simple. Even their own people won't risk the loss of their efforts so they do minimal work. It is a cancer that destroys everything. The U.S. bears no responsibility for the mordida whatsoever.

Μολὼν λάβε

[RU88]

I'm of the opinion that Zero is possessed with a variant of what's referred to as “Stockholm Syndrome.” Either that or he has a great dislike for the country he was elected to represent. Either way we're screwed.

[Travis McGee]

Or he’s a traitor mole from day one.

[Scanian]

Read up on his childhood and upbringing and you’ll have a very clear understanding of why he does and says such things. It’s simply the nature of the beast.

[Scanian]

I my experience, the worst place for “la mordida”—though I don’t recall the term being used there locally—is Caracas. I’ve never seen a place in my life where everybody has their hand out like there. It’s very off-putting and I’m sure other visitors have had a similar reaction—wanting to get the hell out of there as soon as possible. In Colombia, on the other hand, I didn’t notice much of that. I’m sure it exists behind the scenes but at least it’s not so in-your-face as in Caracas.

[pissant]

BUMP

[TomasUSMC]

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[pissant]

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