None dare call it treason

BEIJING -- President Obama is again receiving harsh criticism from American conservatives, this time for shaking hands with Hu Jintao, President of the People's Republic of China (or "Red China," as these critics refer to it). These latest criticisms follow the recent uproar in response to photographs of the American president extending the courtesy of a bow to the Japanese emperor.

Photographs of the American and Chinese heads of state shaking hands are being posted on Fox News and other conservative journals, accompanied by comments deploring President Obama's gesture.

"The handshake is historically a gesture from one warrior to another, proof that he is bearing no arms. Frankly, I don't believe that is the sort of message we should be sending the murderous cabal in Beijing, bloated as they are with outsourced American jobs and fistfuls of underpriced yuan," exclaimed one Republican source, speaking not for attribution. "I literally vomited. I never thought I'd live to see an American president -- even one possibly not American-born --stand before some foreign potentate so openly confessing that he and his nation are disarmed."