Sometimes A Cigar Is Just A Cigar

During today's memorial service for Nelson Mandela, President Obama shook hands with Cuba's Raoul Castro.  With that one simple gesture, the right-wing blogosphere went absolutely apeshit, calling Obama every name in the book, including "traitor".  The handshake, they said, showed panty-waisted "weakness" on our part and provided the Commie "tyrant" with an enormous PR "victory" in the eyes of the world.

Oh, please, righties!  Take a deep breath and get over yourselves.  Sometimes a handshake is just a handshake.

After all, Obama gave Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff a kiss on the cheek, and back in September she cancelled a state visit to the U.S. to protest NSA spying.  And then he greeted German Chancellor Angela Merkel by unzipping his fly.  (Just kidding about that!)