A year ago, Hugo Chavez banned Lech Walesa from meeting with the Venezuelan opposition. Back then I posted on it at Real Clear World.

Fast-forward fourteen months, and what do you have? Hero of the Cold War, Vaclav Havel, Snubbed for START II by Thin-Skinned President:

More of that smart diplomacy I was promised — major players on the world stage obnoxiously insulted according to where they are on our juvenile president’s “Who’s Hot/Who’s Not” list.

Europe’s most famous Cold War warrior and former communist political prisoner was excluded from a ceremony yesterday where Russia and the U.S. took steps toward world peace.

Vaclav Havel, the president of Czechoslovakia and then Czech Republic for 13 years, was not invited to the signing of the START II nuclear arms reduction treaty by President Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev…

You can’t be in Obama’s or Hugo’s “Who’s Hot” lists if you are a hero of the Cold War.