Cuddlin' With Evil, By Mark Morford

[madokie]

Obama shakes hands with people we're supposed to hate. Are we all going to die?


Clearly this is not the way we're supposed to behave. Clearly this is not what we, as a formerly grumpy, petulant, first-world nation, expect from our president, from our attitude, from our typical chest-thumping, saber-rattling, kill-'em-all posture in the world.

See, what we do is, we stomp in. We huff and snort and make a portentous entrance full of cold swagger and terse, screw-you-if-you-disagree handshakes, ignoring the clammy mitts of those inflammatory commie jerks we don't like because they've called us icky names in the past but whose illegal narcotics we will gladly purchase by the megaton and whose oil we're going to go in and forcibly steal anyway ha ha sucker.

We say "screw you" to codes of courteous diplomacy whenever we damn well feel like it. We speak loudly and we carry the biggest stick and we don't hesitate to shove it where the sun don't shine. You got that, Hugo?

Yes, what we're supposed do is strut like an arrogant god into something like the 34-nation Summit of the Americas, a gathering most Americans know/care little about and which our media barely covers because it's so obviously teeming with a bunch of whiny, ungrateful little countries we could squash between our toes if we felt like it. ...

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(Full URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/04/22/notes042209.DTL&nl=fix)



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[malaise]

1. Good article

Thanks

[GreenTea]

2. Morford nails it, again.