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MEDIA ALERT: Keith Olbermann's Countdown on Obama & Hugo Chavez

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Tonight at about 8:15 pm EST, I will be discussing with Keith Olbermann on MSNBC's Countdown all the ballyhoo about Barack Obama's suprisingly bright moments with Venezuela President Hugo Chavez at the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad & Tobago.

My bottom line -- well, I'll share that on the show first and add here later.

But seriously, was John Bolton's behavior so infecting that everyone thinks that huff-and-puff grump theatrics are how President Obama should treat some of our more complicated global rivals??

I'll post the MSNBC video clip here at The Washington Note as soon as it is ready.

This should be kind of fun -- and yet, serious too.

-- Steve Clemons

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Posted by Don Bacon, Apr 20 2009, 10:20PM - Link

Dan K nailed it, and appealed to Steve's Nixon side in the bargain. Gotta love it. (That's my highest accolade.)

Posted by Jay C, Apr 20 2009, 9:38PM - Link

Maybe, Steve, the notion that high-handed arrogant self-
righteousness is the proper attitude for American diplomats and
officials to display in foreign-affairs settings wasn't an infectious
contagion FROM John Bolton- but the other way around: Bolton
was chosen for his position and promoted to a position of
influence because he perfectly embodied the personality the
Bush-era Neocon Establishment wanted. One who would
wholeheartedly agree with their notion of what "American
leadership"" entailed: i.e., that ""leadership" consists of us telling
other countries what to do: and them doing it.

Posted by Dan Kervick, Apr 20 2009, 8:53PM - Link

I think others have probably already called attention to the following famous clip. But it's still an interesting comparison:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIJ1S9wAGbA

Of course, Chavez has thousands of thermonuclear weapons pointed at us and has locked his opponents away in Siberian gulags, so what Obama did was much, much, much worse.

Nicely handled by Nixon by the way.

Posted by ArtIsRevolution, Apr 20 2009, 8:45PM - Link

nice job Steve.

Posted by don nash, Apr 20 2009, 8:25PM - Link

Obama shook hands with Hugo Chavez? Oh my gawd, WE'RE ALL
GONNA DIE!!!

Posted by Dan Kervick, Apr 20 2009, 8:21PM - Link

Since I have pretty much stopped watching television new altogether, I missed the Chavez incident and fallout. But why aren't Chavez's opponents happy that after years of thumbing his nose at Washington, he now seems eager to suck up and make nice?