Politicians pose with each other all the time, and specific ones go in and out of favor all the time. Do you need me to dig up embarassing photos of Qadaffi with McCain, Bush, and a host of other right-thinking 'mericans? I never thought highly of the Libyan, but its ammusing how quickly so many people swallowed the party doctrine when Qadaffi turned into a great friend of western democracy because he opened up Libya to the oil multinationals, but then returned to parriah after he started asserting Libyan nationalism and insisted on a larger portion of the profits to boot.