First Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi praised Obama in a speech before the United Nations General Assembly yesterday. Then Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez lauds Obama in an address to the same body today.
"We are happy that a young African Kenyan was voted for and made president," Qaddafi said, after referring to Obama as "my son." He continued, "Obama is a glimpse in the dark for the next four years, but I'm afraid we may go back to square one.
"Can the U.S. guarantee after Obama that they'll be a government? We're happy and content if he can stay forever," said the Libyan dictator.
Chavez also was effusive in his feelings for the new American president. "It doesn't smell of sulfur here anymore," Chavez said, referencing an attack he had made on former President George W. Bush in a speech there three years ago. "It smells of something else. It smells of hope."
I can see the reelection campaign developing already. Alongside the iconic "Hope" t-shirts, there'll be "Forever" ones. Obama, the dictators' choice.
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