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At the State Department, ABC's Martha Raddatz managed to obtain contrasting still photographs of Barack Obama's conversations with Hugo Chavez, his Venezuelan counterpart, at the weekend's Summit of the Americas. The official photograph was of a "cordial handshake;" grainier cellphone videotape showed Obama being "stern and serious." The latter images, which should reassure some of our President's anti-socialist critics, appeared to have come from Latin American television.
The Chavez pix allowed Raddatz to review the new President's diplomatic outreach--Iran, Turkey, Russia, Cuba. She quoted President Raul Castro's offer to negotiate "everything, everything, everything" with Obama. Next she moved to North Korea, where Kim Jong Il offered "nothing, nothing, nothing." Raddatz concluded: "That is the problem with foreign policy. Sometimes no matter how far you reach out, there is no one on the other end to take your hand."
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