WELCOME TO THE NEW BANANA REPUBLIC

What an incredible headline: "US, Venezuela to restore envoys".
The United States and Venezuela are to reinstate ambassadors to each other's capitals following tit-for-tat expulsions last year.
Officials in Caracas and Washington confirmed the decision, which follows an easing of tension since President Barack Obama came to office.
That was the lead in a news item on BBC News this afternoon.

Yes, I know, it's shocking...but not surprising in view of the recent friendly exchange between Barack and Hugo. At the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago, President Chavez presented Barack Obama with a gift of a book: "The Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano".

The book is widely considered the bible of the Latin American left. That's all Obama needs...more radical, far-left propaganda. Well, I'm sure he hasn't been getting nearly as much of that since he left Reverend (?) Wright's church.

Now our illustrious President (or should I say el Presidente'?) is ready to play patty-cake with the tin-horn dictator from Venezuela. Yes, the same one who denigrated President Bush by referring to him as the devil, when he made his speech at the United Nations. I'm sure you remember..."el Diablo spoke in this room yesterday...you can still smell the sulphur".

Chavez is a man who has done nothing but voice his disdain toward the United States.
He comes to our country and shows nothing but hatred and disrespect for our former President, while we allow him to exercise the same freedom of speech we, as Americans, enjoy. I have to ask a rhetorical question..."could any American get away with that same type of behavior in Venezuela?" I doubt it.

But now, Hugo and Barack apparently are going to be BFF's!

I have nothing else to say about this situation, and really don't have any major discussion on my mind, except to let everyone know what Mr. Obabma is up to and that it is deplorable for the President of the United States to bend over and take it like this on behalf of all of us.