Another Misstep?

3/24/16
 
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from FoxNews,
3/24/16:

Obama follows up Belgian/ISIS furor over Cuba trip, attending baseball game, doing the wave, and now a dance routine.

First, he caught heat for doing the wave alongside Cuba’s dictator — while the rest of the world was watching images of ISIS carnage in Brussels. Now, new images of President Obama doing the tango – albeit a bit awkwardly – in Buenos Aires are further fueling an “optics” problem as he defends the decision to go on with the diplomatic program in Latin America despite this week’s horrific events in Belgium.

Even Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, said Thursday that the dance number in Argentina was a bad move.

“The advance person who let him do the tango, that person ought to be looking for work on somebody’s … campaign very, very far away,” Haass told MSNBC. “That was a tremendous mistake.”

He disagreed with critics who say Obama should have canceled his trip after Tuesday’s attacks, but said scenes like the U.S.-Cuba baseball game and now him dancing the tango don’t fit with the seriousness of the moment.

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