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Obama shakes hands with Cuba's Castro in 'gesture of hope'

sawyerloggingon said:
Why do you people have to take it to the extreme. He could have politely shook his hand as protocol requires and then moved briskly on. He didn't need to bow and scrape and act like he just ran into a hero that he long admired.
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I saw it as the president simply being respectful. Obama's taller so he leaned in to get on eye level with Castro.
 
sbrettt said:
I saw it as the president simply being respectful. Obama's taller so he leaned in to get on eye level with Castro.
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Why should he be respectful to a communist dictator that as we speak is holding an innocent American in one of his filthy prisons? He should have given Castro the quickest most formal handshake he could while glaring at him with go f*** yourself eyes.
 
Jetboogieman said:
Wow... This is one of the most pathetic threads I've ever read.

For people who say liberals are the bleeding hearts, since Obama was elected, many on the right show us every days ugh threads like this who the real "bleeding hearts" are.

There is nothing so trivial, that they cannot get outraged over.
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Do you know how many people the Cu-coms have tortured and murdered?
 
Jetboogieman said:
Wow... This is one of the most pathetic threads I've ever read.

For people who say liberals are the bleeding hearts, since Obama was elected, many on the right show us every days ugh threads like this who the real "bleeding hearts" are.

There is nothing so trivial, that they cannot get outraged over.
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Sucking up to evil is trivial? Giving this thug a photo op to show his people how respected he is, is trivial? Not in the world I live in it's not.
 
sawyerloggingon said:
Why should he be respectful to a communist dictator that as we speak is holding an innocent American in one of his filthy prisons? He should have given Castro the quickest most formal handshake he could while glaring at him with go f*** yourself eyes.
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You can't even see his face. How do you know the president didn't lean over to get in Castro's face and glare at him with go **** yourself eyes?
 
sawyerloggingon said:
Why should he be respectful to a communist dictator that as we speak is holding an innocent American in one of his filthy prisons? He should have given Castro the quickest most formal handshake he could while glaring at him with go f*** yourself eyes.
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How is giving Castro a dirty look going to get him out of prison?
 
Jetboogieman said:
Wow... This is one of the most pathetic threads I've ever read.

For people who say liberals are the bleeding hearts, since Obama was elected, many on the right show us every days ugh threads like this who the real "bleeding hearts" are.

There is nothing so trivial, that they cannot get outraged over.
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Tell me about it. The last five years has been Perpetual Outrage Syndrome from the right. Obama can't fart without these guys going bonkers.
 
Taking at least a day off from this Mandela/Obama hatred has done me well..
Hold the fort down .
Kobie said:
Tell me about it. The last five years has been Perpetual Outrage Syndrome from the right. Obama can't fart without these guys going bonkers.
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sawyerloggingon said:
Sucking up to evil is trivial? Giving this thug a photo op to show his people how respected he is, is trivial? Not in the world I live in it's not.
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He wasn't sucking up. It simply wasn't the time or place to act like a dick.
 
Kobie said:
Tell me about it. The last five years has been Perpetual Outrage Syndrome from the right. Obama can't fart without these guys going bonkers.
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If he farts, he's a hypocrite for emitting a dangerous greenhouse gas.
 
Kobie said:
Tell me about it. The last five years has been Perpetual Outrage Syndrome from the right. Obama can't fart without these guys going bonkers.
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True. And it was the same thing for Bush from the left. Unfortunately, partisans on both sides allow the perpetuation of this ****.
 
Montecresto said:
True. And it was the same thing for Bush from the left. Unfortunately, partisans on both sides allow the perpetuation of this ****.
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That is very true. Sometimes it is just better to take these things with a grain of salt and consider the source and move on to another topic that interests you. Find a few people to have an intelligence conversation with. Well, at least civil.
 
Kobie said:
Tell me about it. The last five years has been Perpetual Outrage Syndrome from the right. Obama can't fart without these guys going bonkers.
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So you are saying it's kinda like the 8 years of bush?
 
This thread would be laugh-out-loud funny if it weren't so danged pathetic. I'm no Obama fan, but good lord, criticizing a guy for bending to shake the hand of a guy 8 inches shorter than you is ridiculous. If folks watch the short clip from which this still was snapped, it would be obvious that there is music and singing blaring in the background, and after Obama mounts the steps he shakes everyone's hand and appears to issue a short greeting close to their ears, because of the noise I presume. It's hardly his fault that everyone on the stage was shorter than he was, so to make his greeting effective he had to bend closer to them. Sheeesh.

I'm sure glad that DP posters don't bother wasting time with petty nothings! :lol:

 
Kobie said:
I think Obama gets it for a lot more inconsequential BS than Bush ever did.
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No, Bush got plenty and it was just as deserved as Obama's.
 
Kobie said:
I think Obama gets it for a lot more inconsequential BS than Bush ever did.
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Morons still tout pics of Bush and Saud.
 
Kobie said:
I think Obama gets it for a lot more inconsequential BS than Bush ever did.
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I don't know, I wasn't on this site when Bush was president but he sure does get a good raking over the coals. I would say with Obama, he is in charge now and he can change things now either for the good, bad or indifferent. Bush is gone and nothing he did can ever be changed. So there is a difference, I suppose those who are diehards supporters or one or the other doesn't see it that way, but such is life. I think each has/is done/doing some good things and each has/is done/doing some bad things for the country. Neither is 100% good or bad. But posters here see them that way.
 
sawyerloggingon said:
Third world countries are fun to visit but I notice you didn't stay there.
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No, but I'll go back.
Don't compare Cuba to North America, compare it to Jamaica or Haiti or Dominican Republic.
 
DiAnna said:
This thread would be laugh-out-loud funny if it weren't so danged pathetic. I'm no Obama fan, but good lord, criticizing a guy for bending to shake the hand of a guy 8 inches shorter than you is ridiculous. If folks watch the short clip from which this still was snapped, it would be obvious that there is music and singing blaring in the background, and after Obama mounts the steps he shakes everyone's hand and appears to issue a short greeting close to their ears, because of the noise I presume. It's hardly his fault that everyone on the stage was shorter than he was, so to make his greeting effective he had to bend closer to them. Sheeesh.

I'm sure glad that DP posters don't bother wasting time with petty nothings! :lol:

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I agree, much ado about nothing. I do wonder how Cuban TV will play this up and what the announcer will say about the hand shake.
 
US Conservative said:
I love Cubans. Warm, loving people and some simply gorgeous women. The food is insanely great. But that country is a crap hole under communist rule.
Maybe try hearing real stories of communist rule, instead of vacationing with Canadians and Europeans, knowwhatImean?
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We stayed in casas particulare and ate at paladars, in private homes with ordinary people. We were on a deck in Havana finishing a bottle of wine with a young guy, an architect, who was working on the renovation of a building in the old city. He was very vocal, about 20 feet from a busy sidewalk, about how Fidel needed to step aside or die or whatever so the country could move on. It was different in the smaller towns, though. We spent time in Villa Clara, Trinidad and Cienfuegos and the people there still revere Fidel and the revolution. Especially women, older women, and especially black people who can remember the bad old days. We saw several people put their hands over their hearts when they said, "Che".
There's no dire poverty, no lack of medical care or education, no street prostitution or begging or punk crime. We'd be driving through back-road farm country and go past a farmhouse with a big red cross painted on it- that's a clinic, where a doctor lives. The country is unique in Latin America. I know about the human rights abuses but suspect it's played out of proportion for political reasons.
 
sawyerloggingon said:
I don't bend over when I shake someones hand that is shorter than me and I doubt anyone else does either. Nice excuse though for the bow. The body language here is quite telling. Obama is bowing and leaning forward and has a huge grin while Castro seems a bit taken aback by all the gushing and fawning.
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If you shake their hand and want to hear what they say in a very crowded room I'd bet you'd bow to listen.
 
Jetboogieman said:
Wow... This is one of the most pathetic threads I've ever read.

For people who say liberals are the bleeding hearts, since Obama was elected, many on the right show us every days ugh threads like this who the real "bleeding hearts" are.

There is nothing so trivial, that they cannot get outraged over.
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Amen, just like the code pink folk that blamed everything and anything on Bush, the right has the same derangement with Obama. It is so freaking silly. Of course no one mentions McCain and Kadafi, or Thatcher shaking Mugabe's hand, or Eisenhower shaking Franco's hand, Gingrich shaking Arafat's hand, Rumsfeld and Saddam Hussein, Pope JPII and Fidel Castro, Kissinger and Pinochet, G HW Bush shaking hands with Hugo Chavez, Churchill shaking hands with Stalin.

Pics are over at LGF of all of these.

Manufactured outrage...it is replacing any bits of reason these days, because most people don't choose to get their news from a diversity of sources...just the ones they agree with and re-inforce their opinions, just making them more ignorant and angry... :(
 
poweRob said:
If you shake their hand and want to hear what they say in a very crowded room I'd bet you'd bow to listen.
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Your right of course and this criticism is foolishness. There are plenty of legitimate criticisms of Obama that have far more bearing on our daily lives, and they get less attention.
 
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