My article from the Dec. 11, 2013 issue of FrontPage Magazine: The Handshake Heard ‘Round the World By Matthew Vadum President Obama’s distressing rejection of American exceptionalism was on display for the whole world to see yesterday when he shamed his country by lowering himself to shake the blood-stained hand of Cuba’s Communist dictator. In a brief but cordial encounter in a funeral receiving line at the southern tip of the African continent, Obama shook the hand of Cuba’s octogenarian tyrant, President Raul Castro, granting a kind of legitimacy to the caudillo who leads America’s Cold War enemy 90 miles from the … Continue reading The Handshake Heard ‘Round the World