Secretary of State Hillary Clinton slaps Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) around (Video)

"We want your constructive criticism, we want your feedback," said Clinton. "But President Obama won the election. He beat me in a primary, in which he put forth a different approach, and he is now our president. And we all want our president, no matter of which party, to succeed, especially in such a perilous time." Secretary of State Hillary Clinton



And special video of Secretary Clinton giving Rep. Rohrabacher (R-CA) a cup of STFU when it comes to Dick Cheney



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Obama, reaching out ot enemies makes sense

YES.IT.DOES.

Defending his brand of world politics, President Barack Obama said Sunday that he is "strengthening our hand" by reaching out to enemies of the United States and making sure that the nation is a leader, not a lecturer, of democracy.

Obama's foreign doctrine emerged across his four-day trip to Latin America, his first extended venture to a region of the world where resentment of U.S. power still lingers. He got a smile, handshakes and even a gift from incendiary leftist leader Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, and embraced overtures of new relations from isolated Cuban President Raul Castro.

"The whole notion was that if we showed courtesy or opened up dialogue with governments that had previously been hostile to us, that that somehow would be a sign of weakness," Obama said, recalling his race for the White House and challenging his critics today.

"The American people didn't buy it," Obama said. "And there's a good reason the American people didn't buy it — because it doesn't make sense." read more here.....

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Obama is making us look weak

Amazing, just amazing that folks like Joe Scarborough and Pat Buchanan can sit up on television and state that Obama is making the U.S. look weak. Shaking hands with Hugo Chavez is a gesture. Remember, George W. Bush said that he could look into Putin's sole and know he is a good man. See how far that got us? At least Obama did not make a stupid statement like that, but acted like a gracious politician that he is.

It is smarmy statements like this that did not help us fight the Iraq War, which bankrupted this country, don't believe it, ask our banker named, China. But the right winged talkers are exploding at the seams because of a handshake.

Concerned troll Buchanan states that Obama is being made a mockery of, accepting the anti-American book by Chavez. What does this mean? Absolutely, nothing. One thing we have learned is that Barack Obama is a gracious man, who is also a hard ball politician. Don't believe it? Ask Hillary Clinton or John McCain, whose dust was left on the election road by Obama. Taking a picture, shaking a hand, means nothing. But being in the room with persons of state who we have direct disagreement and starting dialogue is a beginning.

Concerned trolls Joe Scarborough and Pat Buchanan seem to have limited memory. Let me refresh it for you. Barack Obama campaigned on retaining our stature in the international arena, it means having conversation with those countries who may hate us. It was the "us against them" attitude that left the United States isolated in the War of Terror.

The former administration left an international mess, besides the domestic one, it is up to our new head of state to push forward the new policy of the United States of America. To say he is a mockery or failure and not even 100 days in is psycho talk, as Ed Schultz puts it.

I guess the only way that conservatives or so called conservatives can go forward is by the daily pounding of images they think they see, instead of being real about it. The Fox News of the world with Nazi images and comparing Obama as one is one of the main reasons that the Republican Party is on the outs right now in this country.

The same old spin, rinse, repeat is all the conservatives have right now.

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Hugo Chavez sending Venezuelan ambassor to Washington, DC

We know what the deal is about Obama shaking Chavez hand.

OMG. If he shakes his hand that means the end of democracy here in the U.S.A.!!!!! It means more of the against us countries will rally more against us.

The right wing nuts need to take a vicodin. Barack Obama is not George W. Bush, who happened to destroy all our luster, stature and trust worldwide. Obama is doing what he said he would from the set, broker relationships with these countries to see if we can find a common ground.

We had the old style, fuck 'em up cowboy style in the White House and see where we are at? nuff said. Time to do something new or bring back a throwback theme, how about some good old diplomacy? As we see Secretary Clinton flying worldwide to broker relationships, open doors, we are watching President Obama start to go through the doors.

If this country wanted to continue the George W. Bush style, Obama would be sitting in the senate.

again, nuff said.
h/t to Today With President Barack Obama

As the media is writing that Obama "got punked" or spun by Hugo Chavez, Chavez takes a step in the right direction and says that he'll send a Venezuelan ambassador back to Washington.

It isn't Obama getting punked, it is the media responding to the irrational conservatives who are out of their gourds about Obama shaking Chavez's hand. It was obvious what Chavez was doing and who could blame him? Everyone wants to get next to Obama. It shines a positive light on them. That doesn't mean they're best buds but it's easy for a small mind to start with the socialist rants. If Obama shakes the hand of a socialist, that must mean he's a socialist, according to conservatives. We have to do a better job of educating are kids because we have too many people growing up with but a sliver of a mind.

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Hugo Chavez wants to be Obama's friend (Video)

Chavez gave President Obama a gift, a book.

The Venezuelan's office reported Chavez told Obama: "With this same hand I greeted Bush eight years ago. I want to be your friend."

Chavez is one of those leaders that you keep one eye on your back. Sure, many Latin American leaders are angry at the US, especially for the Cuba situation, for that it is understandable, but with the Bush Administration gone and many hard core anti-Castro folks diminishing, there is no reason for the Obama Administration not to go forward with open dialouge. This 2009, not 1959, the embargo against Cuba should have been lifted YEARS AGO, now it looks like it is heading in that direction.

pssssttttt....the book in question, "Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent" was number 60,280 on amazon.com, Friday, today number 10 on amazon.com. Oprah, move over, there is a new "O" in town.....

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President Obama at the Summit of Americas in Trinidad and Tobago with Mexico, too (Pictures)

All of Latin America is there......


Obama, Chavez shake hands at Americas Summit







Mexico









Al Rodgers Pictures

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