You Pull My Finger After I Shake Your Hand

If Kim Jong Il said that he thought you were a putz, would you care a whit?

President Obama shook hands with Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi Thursday, a sign that relations have improved considerably between the U.S. and the North African nation.

Obama's diplomatic gesture was his latest effort to reach out to controversial world leaders in an attempt to improve the United States' standing around the world, which he says was damaged by former President Bush's unilateral diplomacy.

It is very important that we are liked. And a handshake means so much. Not like some other type of conduct, which I am sure that cowboy Bush would engage in . . .

But it was Bush who restored full diplomatic relations with Libya in 2006 after the formerly isolated country, which was recognized as a sponsor of terrorism, announced it was ending its weapons of mass destruction program.

This is why I have come to shake my head simply at these gestures of Obama . . . there is not any substance behind them, just a photo op. But it is amazing to me that anyone could read into a handshake that "relations have improved considerably."

Here is the difference between the liberals and mainstream media, and leaders like Putin, Chavez, Qaddafi . . . the former know Obama is "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing" and so they pose with him for the larfs and giggles, expecting nothing more since it is clear the leader of the United States is a featherweight.