a prophetic voice-

Oxymoronic...that's the only way I can describe the puzzling and almost vitriolic reactions to President Obama shaking hands with Cuba's president, Raul Castro. Will this pose problems for Obama, one news service blares. Should Obama have done this, asks another. Is there something more behind this, queries still another. And I am left shaking my head, wondering yet again if our president can do anything right in the eyes of some people. Were you critics listening, I am wondering, to the eulogy President Obama delivered today? Were you watching, as people from nations all over the globe came together...yes, together, to honor a man who taught the whole world about the meaning of forgiveness...of reconciliation. So within this context, on this day of all days, why wouldn't Barak Obama shake hands with Raul Castro? Why read something more into it? Why not accept and honor this action as the only appropriate thing a gracious man would do, under the circumstance...