huffingtonpost.com — Responding to the somewhat overwrought critique that Obama did not properly stand up to hostile Latin American leaders during a trip to the region this past week, David Axelrod accused critics of missing the point.
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woodsjransomApr 20, 2009
It is so very uncool. Too bad some Americans did not read that memo. But then they have another agenda and the pervasive attitude about President Obama is based on "stuff" that foreign countries don't buy into. I am interested in knowing what foreigners really think about the American public and their piss ant excuses they use to smear President Obama.
clvngodessApr 21, 2009
""I think the real message of what happened this past weekend with the Cuban regime's response to the president's decision on remittances, or the overtures from president Chavez. I think what has happened is that anti-Americanism isn't cool anymore.""I for one, am personally sick of the whole concept of what is cool or not cool, the marketing of cool. What the President did was sit gracefully as a dignitary would and participated in a discourse. Sometimes we must sit through critiques of our own history or behaviors or ideas that perhaps we don't agree with or even relate to in order to develop better relationships and understanding. And "hip and cool" don't have to enter that picture at all. But if that's how we must sell dignity and grace and proper behavior for heads of state, I guess I can deal with that. As for the Anti-Americanism, well, only time will tell. We are after all 100 days into a new administration. There's plenty of room for growth and change --for all of us.