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President Obama danced the famous Argentine tango with a lithe dancer in a shimmery gold dress during the official state dinner at the Centro Cultural Kirchner in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Wednesday night.
The image of the president dancing the tango fueled criticism that he’s had a muted reaction to Tuesday’s Brussels terror attacks, which killed 34 and injured 200. The president has been criticized for remaining in Cuba, where he attended a baseball game following the attacks, and pressing forward with his Latin American tour, which included paying an official visit to Argentina’s newly elected, centrist president, Mauricio Macri.
“Baseball games and tangos, that’s inconsistent with the seriousness of the day,” Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, said today on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.
President Obama repeatedly declined the dancer’s invitation, according to an Associated Press report, before relenting. But Obama aides say the president’s reaction, and his decision to continue his Latin American tour, is “by design,” The Wall Street Journal noted, an effort to send a message to Islamic terrorists that they don’t wield the power to halt everyday life.
“What they can do is scare,” Obama said in Havana, “and make people afraid and disrupt our daily lives and divide us. And as long as we don’t allow that to happen, we’re gonna be okay.”
Agencies/Canadajournal
