Obama's Handshake Causes Right-Wing Memory Lapse

[kpete]

Last edited Tue Dec 10, 2013, 02:03 PM - Edit history (3)

Updated to add this lovely pic:


and these:

McCain & Gaddafi


And who's this? Why, it's Gerald Ford shaking hands with communist dictator Leonid Brezhnev!


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Dwight Eisenhower with Francisco Franco


Leonid Brezhnev sweet-talks Richard Nixon


Donald Rumsfeld and Saddam Hussein


Dwight Eisenhower with Nikita Khruschev


Henry Kissinger and Augusto Pinochet



George H.W. Bush with Manuel Noriega

It's Nelson Mandela's funeral
Fidel Castro supported Mandela.
Ronald Reagan opposed Mandela.

If, hypothetically, both men had attended, it would have been appropriate to shake Fidel's hand, but not Ronnie's.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/10/1261625/-President-Obama-shakes-hands-with-President-Castro-at-Mandela-service-Right-wing-has-memory-lapse

[bigdarryl]

1. The media needs a lesson on this also

[legcramp]

29. I'll say.

Christiane Amanpour sounded like she was going to pee her pants.

It was embarrassing.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

30. It's a game for the media. For the GOP, outrage at diplomacy is their only option. n/t

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Those idiots remember when it's convenient to do so.

Convenient for them.

[monmouth3]

3. This should go to Chuckie Todd as a refresher course...n/t

[VanillaRhapsody]

4. Don't forget the Bush's connection to the Taliban..

I am sure I saw some pictures of them with them...

[Ganja Ninja]

8. Or this

[NastyRiffraff]

40. OMG is that real?

Not Photoshopped?? Ewwwwwwwwwwwww

I remember the hand-holding one but never saw this one. And I just ate dinner.

[msanthrope]

5. You forgot Bush hand-holding Bandar.....

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=http://americankabuki.blogspot.com/2012/03/asia-times-911-insider-trading-exposed.html&h=349&w=450&sz=25&tbnid=D6NohgrpV2c7qM:&tbnh=91&tbnw=117&zoom=1&usg=__m0oNUlw-m2orLbpO3g3SM8oQIRo=&docid=82FbIzrW_YBuFM&sa=X&ei=fUqnUvHIKaPksATusYGACA&ved=0CDMQ9QEwAw

[uponit7771]

6. +1

[JHB]

7. The RWers don't have a problem with Franco and Pinochet

They were anticommunist, and shared the RWers expansive view of what constitutes "communism", so they were A-OK with those dictators. Hell, with Pinochet, Kissinger backed his becoming one.

[Baitball Blogger]

9. That picture with Manuel Noriega is curious.

As affectionate as latin american men can be with one another when they greet each other, there is also a machismo issue. I don't really think that pose with Bush is very masculine for Noriega. It says a lot, not only that Noriega is sitting with hands clasped and legs crossed, but that Bush is in a mauling male pose.

The body language says quite a bit.

[SidDithers]

11. I think it's a photoshop...

here's the real pic of Bush and Noriega. Bush is in exactly the same position, with same facial expression, and there's lots of room to insert another person.



Sid

[Baitball Blogger]

12. Good catch.

The original poster should make the correction because there's all kinds of wrong with the photoshopped one.

[Voice for Peace]

33. Even so, your observation is valid and very interesting.

The photoshop suggests one thing, but the real one
suggests even more. Who's the boss in this picture?

[treestar]

17. lol

I knew there had to be a photoshop in that one!

[SidDithers]

18. Even worse, it's a really, really bad shoop...

maybe done in MS Paint.

Sid

[Agschmid]

20. Good catch!

OP should update or delete.

[kpete]

22. done

although the photoshop was a riot!
peace,
kp

[Agschmid]

38. It totally was..

I was like ... Ummm ...

[zbdent]

10. Don't forget ... Only Nixon could go to China ...

(probably because, if it were a Dem, the "liberally-biased media" would have reported it as "reporting to his Commie masters" ...)

[kpete]

13. bush and islam karimov of Uzbekistan. The guy who boiled his opponents alive.

[Happyhippychick]

14. Love this!

[malaise]

15. Fabulous Thread

Wish I could rec more than once

Please post this on Facebook as well

[kpete]

16. go for it

my FB is kids, grandkids & recipes
i leave the politics off at DU

thanks for the rec

peace,
kp

[malaise]

21. LOL

I'm not on Facebook

You're welcome

[spanone]

19. ...

[mnmoderatedem]

23. "These gentlemen are the moral eqivalents of America's founding fathers"

Ronald Reagan, 1985

[spanone]

24. st. ronnie? say it ain't so!!!

just imagine the right wingnuts if that was Obama sitting there instead of saint ron of hollywood ?

[calimary]

32. St. ron of Hollywood! LOVE IT!!!

And don't forget his "other son" - dubya and that nice meeting he had with the Taliban before the whole mess started...

[spanone]

35. right wing loves to hate hollywood, but their god of all time, ron, was a total hollywood product

[Art_from_Ark]

41. Here's Reagan laying a wreath at Bitburg,

a German cemetery which contained the graves of Nazis who were “victims, just as surely as the victims in the concentration camps.”

[Jenoch]

25. I wonder why Al Roker photo bombed

Castro and Nixon?

[Blue_Tires]

26. Someone PLEASE tell me where I can buy Brezhnev's coat!

That thing is crazy awesome...Strictly a coat for pimps and gangsters...

[Old and In the Way]

27. OMG, Presidents doing diplomacy!

Of course, what the RWNJ's really will mean when they go full ballistic on Obama is that a Democratic President cannot do this....especially this President.

[MADem]

28. Nixon WENT to China to shake Mao's hand...how soon they forget!

Last I checked, Mao wasn't ever a Republican...

Nor was Gorby, but "the Gipper" didn't have trouble holding out his gripper to the commie!




It's called diplomacy, and only a mouth-breather doesn't quite 'get' it.

[SummerSnow]

31. I'm going to use your post to cause Rethug head explosions. I better wear a raincoat

[zbdent]

34. Wait ... did Chamberlain go at the behest

of the Bush family?

I remember they had money tied up with Germany at the time ...

[Cha]

36. Ubuntu!

"He not only embodied Ubuntu; he taught millions to find that truth within themselves. It took a man like Madiba to free not just the prisoner, but the jailor as well; to show that you must trust others so that they may trust you; to teach that reconciliation is not a matter of ignoring a cruel past, but a means of confronting it with inclusion, generosity and truth. He changed laws, but also hearts."

"It took a man like Madiba to free not just the prisoner, but the jailor as well;.."

sheshe http://www.democraticunderground.com/110220086

[Bragi]

37. Fabulously well done, Mr. President! /nt

[L0oniX]

39. Does anyone remember that Bush lied us into a war???

[JI7]

42. but those other guys were not black