Posted on 04/17/2009 10:09:01 PM PDT by pissant
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago -- President Obama endured a 50-minute diatribe from socialist Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega that lashed out at a century of what he called terroristic U.S. aggression in Central America and included a rambling denunciation of the U.S.-imposed isolation of Cuba's Communist government.
Obama sat mostly unmoved during the speech but at times jotted notes. The speech was part of the opening ceremonies at the fifth Summit of the Americas here.
Later, at a photo opportunity with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Obama held his tongue when asked what he thought about Ortega's speech.
"It was 50 minutes long. That's what I thought."
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ignored two questions about Ortega's speech, instead offering lengthy praise of a cultural performance of dance and song opening the summit.
"I thought the cultural performance was fascinating," Clinton said. Asked again about the Ortega speech, Clinton said: "To have those first class Caribbean entertainers on all on one stage and to see how much was done in such a small amount of space, I was overwhelmed."
A senior administration official declined to criticize Ortega, saying the president wanted to focus on the future.
"His expectation is that these debates of the past can remain that, debates of the past and that the leaders can take advantage of this opportunity to focus on what they can do in the future to advance the interests of all the people of the hemisphere."
Ortega, meanwhile, droned on about the offenses of the past, dredging up U.S. support of the Somoza regime and the "illegal" war against the Sandinista regime he once led by U.S.-backed Contra rebels in the 1980s. Ortega was a member of the revolutionary junta that drove Anastasio Somoza from power
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Without a teleprompter no less.
Probably brought back memories of Jeremiah Wright’s church. Oh that’s right he missed those...
Endures? Hell, he was probably using all of his willpower to keep himself from clapping and jumping up and shouting “Amen!”.
Hugo yelled at Precious. I guess Precious thought he was back in Wright’s church.
“Obama sat mostly unmoved during the speech but at times jotted notes.”
Most definitely preparing for his next speech(apology) abroad.
Endures? Hell, he wrote it.
Did the mooslim president apologise again?
Obama’s first thought was, you know, the guy’s right. I feel bad about all that.
His second thought was, I’m president of the United States. Who are you?
I was thinking maybe he was concentrating on taking notes.
My conference notes
do the gun registration first, then do the confiscation later.
tell the poeple what they want to hear
nationalize industry
blame the opposition for everything
destroy the economy, then recruit the unemployed to be your goons by blaming the rich and inciting populist angst
Damn I love communism.
I take notes; cause without my TOTUS I can not remember what MR SOROS told me to say.
and his homey Hitlery to bring in the diplomacy edge- of course she had to smooth it over for oflubbo- it’s either the TOTUS or Hitlery- this man can’t even walk a dog-& he’s speechless to boot.
“included a rambling denunciation of the U.S.-imposed isolation of Cuba’s Communist government”
The U.S. didn’t impose an isolation on Cuba. it isolated itself from Cuba. Cuba is free to deal with other countries. It’s not like we put a plastic bubble around them.
“President Obama endured a 50-minute diatribe from socialist Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega that lashed out at a century of what he called terroristic U.S. aggression in Central America”
Commies are directly responsible for 150,000 deaths in Central and South America in the last century. A fraction of them could be considered criminals, enemy soldiers, or enemy combatants. A majority of them were innocent civilians.
How does the U.S.’s “terroristic aggression” compare to that?
He was passing love notes to his friend Hugo.
If dancers on a stage can overwhelm here, what the heck being Secretary of State do to her?!?!
Unless of course he is on American soil, then the "debates of the past" are all he wants discuss, blaming the previous administration for everything he has had to deal with.
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