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6:12 AM, Apr 19, 2009 • By RACHEL ABRAMS

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If you ignore it, it will go away. Is this "diplomacy" for the president and secretary of state of the United States--to respond without a single word of criticism or dispute to an hour of anti-American spewings by Nicaragua's Communist president Daniel Ortega? Apparently so. As a "senior administration official" delicately put it, the president's "expectation is that these debates of the past can remain that, debates of the past and that the leaders can take advantage of this opportunity to focus on what they can do in the future to advance the interests of all the people of the hemisphere."

And the handshake of hipness between Obama and Hugo Chavez will attest to that:

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