Putin and Ahmadinejad Challenge Obama

While President Obama was out playing golf this Memorial Day, our enemies did not take the day off. Today Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad both challenged Obama as he was trying for a hole in one.

Vladimir Putin and Co. warned Western powers to mind their own business and to keep away from the Ukraine.

"The Russian leadership is very apprehensive about what it sees as Western moves designed to tear Ukraine away from Russia," says Dmitry Trenin, director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, an independent think tank in Moscow. "Their central foreign policy goal is to create a power center around Russia. Any move by the West towards the former Soviet republics is seen as damaging Russia's interests."

At the same time President Ahmadinejad of Iran who has recently stated that the US is state sponsor of terrorism has challenged President Obama to a one on one debate at the United Nations, in which we know that Obama will bow down to the Muslim country. Ahmadinejad has thrown another punch by saying that the nuclear issue "is closed".

Let us not forget that in March Venezuela's Hugo Chavez told the world that Obama is ignorant. These three leaders will eat Obama alive.

Obama Meets Chavez~Video

Watch how Obama and Chavez buddy it up. This is less than a month after Chavez called Obama ignorant.

Obama, Chavez Shake Hands at Americas Summit

President Obama who is on a worldwide movement to appease America hating leaders had the highlight of his Summit of the Americas trip, as he got to shake hands with socialist leader Hugo Chavez.

Obama, Chavez shake hands at Americas Summit
By BEN FELLER
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad – Presidents Barack Obama and Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's socialist leader, met Friday and shook hands on the sidelines of a summit of their hemisphere's democracies.

Obama walked across a hotel meeting room to meet Chavez for the first time, said a senior U.S. administration official who witnessed it and spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the details of the event. The official said Obama initiated the encounter.

Chavez has been a fierce critic of the United States during President George W. Bush's tenure.

"It was very, very short," the official said of Friday's meeting. "The president shook his hand, smiled and then went back to his position in the line."

The encounter comes as Obama softens U.S. policy against Cuba, a Chavez ally.

Photos released by the Venezuelan government show the two smiling and Obama touching Chavez on the shoulder. Other photos show them with clenched hands in the room next to the main summit ballroom while the heads of state and government were waiting in line to enter the opening ceremony.

The Venezuelan presidency also said Obama initiated the handshake and quoted Chavez as telling Obama he hopes for better relations between their nations.
The Venezuelan's office reported Chavez told Obama: "With this same hand I greeted Bush eight years ago. I want to be your friend."

Obama's comments were limited to saying that he wanted to introduce himself to Chavez, the U.S. official said. The Obama official would not comment on what Chavez told the U.S. president.

But when a reporter asked if the Venezuelan account of what happened was accurate, the Obama official said: "I wouldn't dispute that."

As recently as last week, Chavez expressed a desire to "reset" relations with Washington.

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