The handshake

MANIFESTO

The apoplexy over Obama's handshake with Hugo Chavez continues apace this morning, as every wingnut in creation is bemoaning the fact that the gesture took place.

Fox News has apparently likened the incident to a Kennedy-Khrushchev meeting nearly fifty years ago, but most people aren't old enough to remember an even earlier incident: when Eisenhower's evangelical Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, refused to shake hands with China's future premier, Chou En-Lai, at 1954's Geneva Conference.

Not surprisingly, the wingnuts would prefer this boorish behavior to what occurred. At long last, they still have left no sense of decency.