The Ignoramus and the Socialist
The AP reports that Obama and Hugo Chavez, Venezuela’s social leader met Friday at a summit in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad.
Asked later about the meeting, Obama elicited laughter from reporters with a brief response: “I said, ‘Como estas?’”
That’s the familiar form of Spanish for “How are you?”
Chavez was more forthcoming with reporters.
“We shook each other’s hands like gentlemen, and it was predictable this would happen,” Chavez said.
“We don’t have any complexes that would prevent us from extending our hands to each other. I’m grateful for his gesture.”
Well at least he didn’t bow this time.