So now he's Obama's "good friend"?

At the National Prayer Breakfast today, Emperor Barry I in his remarks greeted the Dalai Lama as his "good friend":

Obama offered a special welcome to a "good friend," the Dalai Lama, seated at a table in front of the dais among the audience of 3,600. Earlier Obama, seated at the head table, pressed his hands together in a prayer-like position and bowed his head toward the Dalai Lama, then gave him a wave and a broad smile.
It was the first time the president and the Tibetan Buddhist leader attended the same public event, with China objecting to foreign leaders meeting with the Dalai Lama because of his quest for greater Tibetan autonomy from Beijing. Obama's three previous meetings with the Dalai Lama have been private because of the sensitivity of the situation.
But in a show of White House support for the Dalai Lama, he was seated at a table with top Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett. Actor Richard Gere, a friend and follower of the Dalai Lama, was also nearby. Meanwhile, outside, hundreds of demonstrators banged drums and waved Tibetan flags under heavy police presence.

Imagine the Dalai Lama's surprise, given his treatment the last time he met his "good friend" Emperor Barry I:

WASHINGTON — Yes, that’s the Dalai Lama leaving the White HouseThursday afternoon via the back door – into a mound of trash. His Holiness had just finished his meeting with President Obama and was heading out to the “stakeout area,” where a crush of reporters awaited him. That’s what the Dalai Lama is pointing at.

That's right -- they made him leave by the back door, trying not to piss off the Chinese:

Yeah, I don't think the Dalai Lama believed him, either.