(Washington Post) Dana Milbank - President Obama won the unstinting support Monday of one of the world's most prominent leaders: His Excellency Brother Leader Moammar Gaddafi of Libya. The man Ronald Reagan dubbed the "mad dog of the Middle East" is professing Obama love. "I really endorse and support the policies that he has adopted so far," Brother Leader said Monday, referred affectionately to the president as "our son Barack Obama." Gaddafi was not done stirring up conspiracy theorists. "The Muslim world welcomed very much the arrival of Obama to the presidency, because the ordinary citizen knows that President Obama is a youth of an African descent....He comes from, originally from a Muslim family, maybe even of an Arab origin." Just what Obama needed: The mad dog of the Middle East is his new best friend.
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