Often, the weirdest thing about the AP's "analysis" pieces is that they think they're stating the obvious, when really, they're just being weird:
And in the process, he's taking a huge gamble both at home and abroad, for a payoff that could be a long time coming, if ever.
You'd think that after the last guy's act, if Obama came out and said "the US never makes foreign policy blunders," he would risk looking like a total lunatic. Abroad and at home.
Their list of "risky" Obama statements includes this one, Obama conceding that
America's appetite for illegal drugs and its lax control of the flow of guns and cash to Mexico were partly to blame for the drug-lord-inspired violence that is rattling the southern U.S. neighbor.
Um, er, holy shit how daring egad what a "gamble" oh no...?
That's is the sort of thing that would only sound outrageous to complete lunatics who think a handshake = treason. Or who thought that Bush did a swell job on the foreign relations front.
Only a Villager could ever imagine that it is at all "risky" to say things that are indisputably true in order to distance oneself from a horrible foreign policy carried out by people widely hated at home and abroad. And only wingnuts would think the AP is sucking up to Obama. The AP is sucking up to them, and a fat lot of good it will do the AP, too.
MORE MORE MORE. RIght Wing News adds:
President Barack Obama didn't just greet Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, he gave him the hood handshake and the warmest smile he's managed with any foreign leader. It's not just that he shook hands with a socialist leader who is currently bankrupting his country, destroying the economy and cozying up to dictators and tyrants around the world, it's that he pulls him in for the the thug hug.
In street parlance, our President is giving the world tyrants all sorts of respect while dissing our allies with lame gifts, protocol mistakes, diplomatic foolishness and mixed messages....
Rather than being an incentive for the bad guys to do better, the good guys see no reason to be good--they'll get the same respect either way. Just as the guy not working sees no reason to work harder when his neighbor gets the respect of a paycheck one way or another.
That would be the "street parlance," all right. She sure does know the "lingo." Makes you wonder if she's, you know, secretly one of them... you know, those... types? Secretly one of those... you know?
I shall say no more lest anyone become uncomfortable with these incredibly cleverly veiled insinuations.
For fuck's sake. What a repulsive specimen.