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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Rude Pundit: Obama Doesn't Murder Raul Castro at Mandela Memorial; Conservatives Outraged
Admit it. The second you heard that President Obama shook hands with Cuba's Raul Castro at the memorial for Nelson Mandela, you got nauseous. Oh, not because you think there's any problem with two world leaders not currently at or near war exchanging pleasantries or some such nonsense. No, you felt your gut twist because you knew the shitstorm that was about to rain its fecal self down all over the internets. There was no way that this gesture was going to go uncondemned by the fucknuts of the right. And, indeed, you were correct because fucknuts will be fucknuts.
There's America's angriest shelf-elf, John McCain, saying, weirdly, "Why should you shake hands with someone whos keeping Americans in prison? I mean, whats the point? Neville Chamberlain shook hands with Hitler."
Mona Charen, who apparently writes things, said on the National Review online, " T)o witness the handshake between Obama and Raúl Castro makes the stomach turn." And she's been alone in a room with Newt Gingrich.
Marco Rubio, in his continuing performance art piece, "Marco Rubio Hasn't Turned Invisible," smacked, "If the president was going to shake his hand, he should have asked him about those basic freedoms Mandela was associated with that are denied in Cuba." He then added, sadly, slowly, "No, really, I'm still here. Hello?"
At a fucking congressional hearing today, Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of, yeah, Florida, told Secretary of State John Kerry, " W)hen the leader of the free world shakes the bloody hand of a ruthless dictator like Raul Castro, it becomes a propaganda coup for the tyrant." Kerry wanted to roll his eyes, but those muscles have long since succumbed to the Botox.
From Breitbart to Rush Limbaugh, from the halls of Congress to the microphones of CNN, a loud, long fart of manufactured outrage was heard echoing around the nation. What a fine day for freedom and compassion. Frankly, there's a chance that the Cuban people are gonna be pissed that Castro shook hands with the dude who drone bombs the fuck out of innocent people.
Let's give the last word here to another conservative, John Podhoretz, who wrote, sanely, "There's plenty to attack Obama for. Attacking him for shaking someone's hand at a funeral begins to descend into self-parody." The only thing to argue about there is the word "begins."
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The Rude Pundit: Obama Doesn't Murder Raul Castro at Mandela Memorial; Conservatives Outraged (Original Post)
meegbear
Dec 2013
OP
Wouldn't that be assassinate rather than murder? I think when the government does it it's
el_bryanto
Dec 2013
#2
But Obama isn't the legitimately elected POTUS, thus not actually part of our government.
KittyWampus
Dec 2013
#4
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)1. Lurv the RP! n/t
el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)2. Wouldn't that be assassinate rather than murder? I think when the government does it it's
assassination.
I could be wrong.
Bryant
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)4. But Obama isn't the legitimately elected POTUS, thus not actually part of our government.
And that is as silly and backwards as I will get today, thank you very much.
underpants
(182,274 posts)3. Jon Stewart on McCain's prison statement
"Cuba isn't even the only country with questionable prison activity IN Cuba"
(Picture of Gitmo on the screen)
Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)5. The Rude Pundit
always seems to have a way with words.
appleannie1
(5,044 posts)6. Republican logic
NewJeffCT
(56,827 posts)8. Didn't he also kiss the guy
on the lips?
louis-t
(23,199 posts)7. My first thought was a little more tame...
"Obama Doesn't Spit On Raul Castro; Conservatives Outraged."
Johonny
(20,683 posts)9. Doesn't anyone else find it crazy to have poor relations with one of our nearest neighbors
over something that happened before a lot of us were born?
Granted the middle east are killing each other over things that happened thousand of years ago but... do we really want to follow the insane generational hatred pattern to foreign policy? Is Cuba worse than China and we seem to have managed to produce a working relationship with them.
Cha
(295,903 posts)10. John McCain bro-hugs An Nva Colonel who Tortured American Soldiers..
"Let's give the last word here to another conservative, John Podhoretz, who wrote, sanely, "There's plenty to attack Obama for. Attacking him for shaking someone's hand at a funeral begins to descend into self-parody." The only thing to argue about there is the word "begins."
Wow.. good point that should be driven into ted attentionwhore cruz' 'ead.