What a Punk

There are headlines all over today about how Obama refused to make eye contact with Putin at a conference in China.  What a punk.

This is a far cry from the old Democratic Party which, all throughout the Cold War, endlessly repeated the mantra, “talk with the Russians, talk with the Russians . . .” every time a Republican would repeat the GOP mantra of “peace through strength.”   That was before the foreign policy establishment of both parties was taken over by the neocons and American foreign policy came under the control of the Likud Party (a.k.a. the crazy wing of Israeli politics).

The Chinese public apparently thinks Obama’s behavior was punkish as well.  Their media called him a “rapper” and an “idler” with his obnoxious gum chewing behavior.  They think he looked like some pot-smoking punk hanging out on the street in say, Chicago or Honolulu.

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1:30 pm on November 11, 2014