I can think of a dandy rebuttal for President Obama’s next run-in with the Nicaraguan Communist/pedophile:
“The U.S. military interventions you denounce, Mr Ortega, in fact kept many Latin-American nations from degenerating into even worse pestholes. As exhibit A, I present your own Nicaragua. Under the “U.S.-backed” Somoza regime (in fact Jimmy Carter imposed an arms and economic embargo against Somoza to smooth your way to power) Nicaraguans enjoyed a per-capita income almost DOUBLE the one during your Sandinista regime, not to mention the normal gamut of freedoms, from travel to employment to conducting business, to not having 20,000 of them locked up and tortured as political prisoners by you and your eager Castroite understudies.”
President Obama’s amazing performance at this Summit, as he strolled around with a “Kick Me!” sign flapping on his back has gotten much attention. But certain statements from Sec. of State Hillary Clinton sound more troubling still. In a crunch, the President’s behavior can be chalked up to inexperience, especially with Latin American dictators. No such excuse applies for the Secretary of State:
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Unreal