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President Barack Obama shakes Raul Castro's hand at Mandela memorial service
UK Telegraph ^ | Dec 10, 2013 | Colin Freeman, and agencies

Posted on 12/10/2013 6:36:42 AM PST by Innovative

The US president, Barack Obama, shook hands with his Cuban opposite number, Raul Castro, at the memorial service for Nelson Mandela

The handshake between the two historic enemies came as they attended a ceremony in Johannesburg to celebrate the late South African leader's ability to foster reconciliation.

The gesture - which comes despite half a century of hostilities - came as Mr Obama made his way to a podium to deliver a speech. It is only the second time ever that a US president has shaken the hands of a Cuban Communist leader. President Bill Clinton was the first to do so in 2000 after a lunch during a United Nations summit in New York, when he shook hands with Mr Castro's brother, Fidel.

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TOPICS: Cuba; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bow; castro; catro; communism; communists; communistsympathizer; mandela; mandelamemorial; obama; obamamandela; raul; raulcastro
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To: Innovative

Is that a shake and a bow? Maybe a half bow? :-)


41 posted on 12/10/2013 8:17:24 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Bender2

Well said, bud!


42 posted on 12/10/2013 8:17:32 AM PST by Howie66 (Molon Labe, Traitors!)
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To: stevie_d_64

I believe that the answer to your question is NO.


43 posted on 12/10/2013 8:19:28 AM PST by Howie66 (Molon Labe, Traitors!)
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To: Innovative

“historic enemies”??

Give me a break!!

These two scumbags are kindred souls.


44 posted on 12/10/2013 8:20:34 AM PST by Howie66 (Molon Labe, Traitors!)
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To: Bender2

I saw that Bender

I was watching Al Jazeera America they have best coverge in my opiniuon yeah they are bias they had great coverage


45 posted on 12/10/2013 8:36:59 AM PST by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: Bender2

Bender I don’t know if you realize

Some of my Cuban friends tell me that Raul is Queen of Castro Govt LOL!


46 posted on 12/10/2013 8:37:57 AM PST by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: Innovative

In a few years Obama will probably have Che’s body dug up so he can shake his bony hand.


47 posted on 12/10/2013 8:43:09 AM PST by driftless2
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To: Innovative

“...The handshake between the two historic enemies came as they attended...”

Maybe the USA and Cuba are “historic” enemies, but Obama and Castro are commie brothers....


48 posted on 12/10/2013 8:52:07 AM PST by Boonie
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To: Innovative

And bows down too?


49 posted on 12/10/2013 8:57:41 AM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Innovative
"President Barack Obama shakes Raul Castro's hand at Mandela memorial service..."

... Heck ... looking at that photo of the hand shake .... is it just me or does it appear that out Traitor in Chief is actually bowing to Castro? .... gee .... how quaint.

50 posted on 12/10/2013 9:00:57 AM PST by R_Kangel ( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
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To: SevenofNine; Allegra; big'ol_freeper; Lil'freeper; shove_it; TrueKnightGalahad; Cincinatus' Wife; ..
Re: Some of my Cuban friends tell me that Raul is Queen of Castro Govt

Not that there is anything wrong... with that--

Cut the crap, Jerry, are you saying Raul is a little light... in the loafers?

Hell, Duke, Raul told me... he'd never seen a grown man naked!

So your saying he's-- Wait for it... a Latin Lover--

Who cares? He's... a Latin Lover!

And-- He gives one hell... of a fantastic massage!

Obama likes him. He's ethnic-- Gives a great massage... I'm in!

51 posted on 12/10/2013 9:09:48 AM PST by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: PghBaldy

He was ‘sticking it’ to middle class American citizens... people who don’t benefit from being Communist Party members or as we think of them: ‘liberal elites’... he was also sticking it to all the brave Hispanics who fled Cuba - people who believe in freedom...


52 posted on 12/10/2013 9:14:18 AM PST by GOPJ ("Remember who the real enemy is... ")
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To: Travis McGee

A) The MSM — today’s MSM — has no philosophical problem with communism.

B) They are smart enough to outright admit Part-A.


53 posted on 12/10/2013 9:15:30 AM PST by Tallguy (between taglines...)
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Re: Not that there is anything wrong... with that--

Just be thankful he's not... a Turkish office and gentleman!

54 posted on 12/10/2013 9:16:41 AM PST by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: Innovative

Why is he bowing?


55 posted on 12/10/2013 9:17:37 AM PST by SJackson (the Democrats take back control, we donÂ’t make (this) kind of naked power grab, J Biden)
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To: Bender2

OMG this reply is so gay it like Red Alert gay LOL!


56 posted on 12/10/2013 9:17:55 AM PST by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: stevie_d_64
OH!...He's bowing alright!...apologizing for America!
57 posted on 12/10/2013 9:26:14 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Innovative

Obama’s Handshake with Castro

By Mona Charen

12/10/2013

Alan Gross has been rotting in a Cuban prison for going on five years for the offense of distributing computers and cell phones to Cuba’s tiny Jewish community. Not only is Gross an American citizen, he was an employee of the U.S. State Department’s Agency for International Development when he was unlawfully arrested.

That the Obama administration has not seen to his release is outrage enough — but to witness the handshake between Obama and Raúl Castro makes the stomach turn. Even without the Gross case, the nature of the Cuban regime should be enough to cause our president to find some way to avoid a handshake. Shameful day to be an American.

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OBAMA “Bowing to Foreign Monarchs and Dictators”

See video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFSR40-z6_g&feature=player_embedded

(Obama salutes all smiles first among all the dignitaries to Raul Castro. It must be noted that next to Raul Castro was the President of Brazil, Dilma Russeff , and any gentleman would have salute her first, specially being Brazil the most important country in Latin America. )


58 posted on 12/10/2013 11:45:24 AM PST by Dqban22
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To: Innovative

I’ve questioned our absurd hands off Cuban policy for years.

Actually it is long past time that the US business needs to be given an opportunity to make some money in Cuba and that trade is opened with our neighbor. I’m weary of our foreign policy being run by the few instead of the benefit of the many. We’ve spent 50 years alienating the Cubans that are only 150 miles away, allegedly because they are Commies and tyrants, while we give the Commie Chinese who are just as tyrannical our tax base and economy, and more importantly our debt and national security.

We will rue the day that the Communist Chinese were given preferential market and trade status, along with the keys to our national security and country. Rubio does not speak for the USA on this Cuban issue. It’s time we start looking out for the USA en total instead of only the beefs of recent immigrants.


59 posted on 12/10/2013 4:06:16 PM PST by apoliticalone
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To: Innovative

Never met a communist dictator and mass murderer that he didn’t like!

Give him some time and he’ll have the little Toad of No. Korea doing the Macarena in the Lincoln Bedroom with Mugabe and Putin.

We told you years ago that Obama was a red, a communist/marxist, not just a socialist-lite (but NOOOO, the MSM called us crazy).

As Paul Simon might sing, “we’re not so crazy after all these years”.

But there is a new wrinkle in Obama’s tactics. He’s hiring and/or appointing/nominating “New Left” activists who don’t have ties to the old Communist Party or even the present large marxist Democratic Socialists of America.

These are the second generation offspring of the 60’s leftists who never really joined a “party”, only a movement. Even if they were not hardcore marxists, their children picked up on their anti-America, anti-white people, anti-Constitution and anti-American culture/history mindset.

Today they infest the Dept. of Homeland Security, Dept. of Justice, the Courts, FCC, EPA, and Commerce/Energy. Even the military has been infiltrated, esp. in the civilian staff up through the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secy of the Navy.

When the Air Force (Secy of Air Force) is more interested in keeping Christianity out of the Air Force Academy and “diversity” in, you know that our military has been compromised.

If the role of the NASA is to tell Moslems how nice we are, we are compromised.

If the role of the State Department leaders is to make America into a second-rate power, you know we have been compromised (nothing new. The Communist infiltration of the SD and the Govt from the 30’s on has been well documented).

If the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dempsey does nothing to aid our men in Benghazi, you know we have been compromised. Why is this coward still around? Truman would have had him shot for cowardice.

When the Secy of the Navy Mabus is more interested in putting women in submarines than in having enough ships to do the “job”, then we have been compromised.

The IRS: the leadership isn’t worth shit. The Lerman group should be in jail, not enjoying retirement. COMPROMISED!

The FBI: compromised. Not doing much in Benghazi where they don’t belong. Now being implicated in the IRS scandal and coverup. Has a leader who has no idea why the FBI had surveillance on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
[Field offices and agents are doing a good job on internal jihadists, but are they watching the reds, esp. the Red Chinese?)

When you have a communist-mindset president, with communist sympathizers/marxists philosophy followers (i.e. universal/single payer healthcare) around him (Dunn, Van Jones, Malley, Jarrett, the Soros crowd, Warren, Conyers, Harkins, Lee, Schakowsky, Q. Young, Ayers, etc), then you know America has been COMPROMISED BIG TIME.

America is running out of time to exist as a free enterprise, pro-Constitutional Rights nation. Organize and vote like your very existence depends on it, BECAUSE IT DOES!


60 posted on 12/10/2013 6:04:47 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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