Tuesday, December 10, 2013

At Mandela's funeral, Obama shakes hands with Castro, Mugabe

(NBC) Briefly laying aside differences hardened over decades, President Barack Obama on Tuesday shook the hand of the president of Cuba at the memorial service for Nelson Mandela. [...]

On his way to the rostrum, Obama also shook the hand of Robert Mugabe, the strongman ruler of Zimbabwe, and hugged Dilma Rousseff, the president of Brazil, who has stridently opposed spying by the National Security Agency and criticized the U.S. government.

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One suspects he is jealous of people like Mugabe and Castro. So much easier to rule with none of that pesky democracy around...