Obama Endures Ortega Diatribe

Fox ^ | 4/18/09 | Major Garrett

[pissant]

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago -- President Obama endured a 50-minute diatribe from socialist Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega that lashed out at a century of what he called terroristic U.S. aggression in Central America and included a rambling denunciation of the U.S.-imposed isolation of Cuba's Communist government.

Obama sat mostly unmoved during the speech but at times jotted notes. The speech was part of the opening ceremonies at the fifth Summit of the Americas here.

Later, at a photo opportunity with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Obama held his tongue when asked what he thought about Ortega's speech.

"It was 50 minutes long. That's what I thought."

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ignored two questions about Ortega's speech, instead offering lengthy praise of a cultural performance of dance and song opening the summit.

"I thought the cultural performance was fascinating," Clinton said. Asked again about the Ortega speech, Clinton said: "To have those first class Caribbean entertainers on all on one stage and to see how much was done in such a small amount of space, I was overwhelmed."

A senior administration official declined to criticize Ortega, saying the president wanted to focus on the future.

"His expectation is that these debates of the past can remain that, debates of the past and that the leaders can take advantage of this opportunity to focus on what they can do in the future to advance the interests of all the people of the hemisphere."

Ortega, meanwhile, droned on about the offenses of the past, dredging up U.S. support of the Somoza regime and the "illegal" war against the Sandinista regime he once led by U.S.-backed Contra rebels in the 1980s. Ortega was a member of the revolutionary junta that drove Anastasio Somoza from power

[Just A Nobody]

"His expectation is that these debates of the past can remain that, debates of the past

Unless of course he is on American soil, then the "debates of the past" are all he wants discuss, blaming the previous administration for everything he has had to deal with.

[wardaddy]

Wonder if Danny and Umberto are still taxing buyers personally for sugar like they did me in the late 80s?

One to two dollars a bag deposited into their Panamanian account.

Unreal Marxists

[ArmstedFragg]

I’m thinking the TOTUS is p.o’d at Ortega for bad-mouthing the United States before he got a chance to. Probably lots of frantic rewriting going on tonight.

[screaminsunshine]

Not to weorry. His teleprompter is on it.

[Kent C]

"To move forward, we cannot let ourselves be prisoners of past disagreements. I'm grateful that President Ortega did not blame me for things that happened when I was three months old. Too often, an opportunity to build a fresh partnership of the Americas has been undermined by stale debates. We've all heard these arguments before."

Actually, the president misspoke on the sequence of events in Cuba. The invasion of CIA-trained rebels at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba occurred in April 1961. Obama was born August 4, 1961.

Yeah he must have been thinking of his cop out for his relationship with Bill Ayers bombing the Pentagon. He's got to get his excuses straight.

Earlier:

President Obama endured a 50-minute diatribe from socialist Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega that lashed out at a century of what he called terroristic U.S. aggression in Central America and included a rambling denunciation of the U.S.-imposed isolation of Cuba's Communist government.

Just wondering if Major Garret got this right - perhaps he drank some of the water and was under the weather because, this sounds more like Obama's line that he gave all over Europe and earlier in Mexico and Venezuela - blame America first. The only thing that's missing is the apology that follows.

[ChiMark]

Another “America deserves to be slammed” moment brought to
you by Zer0. A sick liberal pandering to our adversaries.

What a fool! A great demonstration of the ineptitude of
Zer0. Unfortunately, this is at the cost of America's
world wide credibility.

[D-fendr]

Obama is no King of Spain - sadly.

[LibLieSlayer]

Shoot... I’d bet the antichrist agreed with everything cha’ said.

LLS

[AppyPappy]

Obama is not only the first black president, he is also the first woman president

[pillut48]

[kellynla]

Hussein has only been in office 3 months and he has already proven to be the absolute WORSE POTUS in my 60 yr. lifetime...if not American history!

Ortega goes on a 50 min. anti-American diatribe and all Hussein can say is “it happened while I was only 3 months old”
He thinks that EVERYTHING that happens in the world is about him!!! this POS has to be the most narcissistic fool to inhabit the WH!!! And does Hussein make ANY attempt to defend the USA..."It was 50 minutes long. That's what I thought" WHAT AN ASS!

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

Sounds like Argentina!