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Obama: Putin's Gift That Keeps On Giving
Forbes ^ | Sept 17, 2013 | By Larry Bell

Posted on 09/17/2013 10:59:27 AM PDT by Jim Robinson

The strategic mismatch between a seasoned KGB veteran and a neighborhood community organizer has been a disaster for America that has “reset” American-Russian relationships backwards. As former New York Mayor Giuliani told Fox and Friends: “The KGB agent is working him over… And unfortunately, he’s our president and he makes our country look so weak that it’s dangerous.”

Little could we have imagined the consequences that would later unfold following Obama’s provident statement just prior to his first election: “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” He has kept that promise. Not since the disintegration of the Soviet Union has the world witnessed such a transformation, and the consequences for us aren’t pretty.

Peggy Noonan recently wrote in the Wall Street Journal: “Twelve years of war. A sense that we’re snake-bit in the Mideast. Iraq and Afghanistan didn’t go well, Libya is lawless. In Egypt we threw over a friend of 30 years to embrace the future. The future held the Muslim Brotherhood, unrest and a military coup. Still, the administration has no discernible strategy.”

It’s particularly distressing to witness someone presumed to have special understanding of Mideastern cultures be so completely outmaneuvered by a seasoned strategist who understands something far more important about leadership…namely that serious players on the world scene scorn weakness and respect power.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: epicfail; obama; putin; russia; syria

1 posted on 09/17/2013 10:59:27 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
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To: Jim Robinson
The strategic mismatch between a seasoned KGB veteran and a neighborhood community organizer:


2 posted on 09/17/2013 11:01:25 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Is John's moustache long enough YET?)
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To: Jim Robinson
Still, the administration has no discernible strategy.

They do have a strategy. And, it is even discernible. However, they cannot speak it out loud, as even their base would not like it.

3 posted on 09/17/2013 11:04:55 AM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: Paine in the Neck

Jay Leno says he is losing weight on the “Obama diet”.

What is that?

Putin eats your lunch every day.


4 posted on 09/17/2013 11:05:06 AM PDT by donmeaker (Youth is wasted on the young.)
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5 posted on 09/17/2013 11:05:40 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Jim Robinson
"he makes our country look so weak that it’s dangerous.”

It's not the appearance that is dangerous.

6 posted on 09/17/2013 11:10:55 AM PDT by Savage Beast (The forces of decadence are the forces of evil.)
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To: Jim Robinson
"serious players on the world scene scorn weakness and respect power"

"We dare not tempt them with our weakness."
John Kennedy

7 posted on 09/17/2013 11:15:09 AM PDT by Savage Beast (The forces of decadence are the forces of evil.)
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Little could we have imagined the consequences that would later unfold following Obama’s provident statement just prior to his first election: “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”

Nonsense! ALL thinking Americans understood what a disaster Obama would be for the country and western civilizations. Of course, that automatically excluded Democrats, the MSM, liberals (but I repeat myself), RINOs, and the GOPe.

8 posted on 09/17/2013 11:32:54 AM PDT by DakotaGator (Weep for the lost Republic! And keep your powder dry!!)
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To: dead

JUst realized what’s in the background of this picture. Your humor’s more mordant than I had first thought.


9 posted on 09/17/2013 11:33:12 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Without justice, what else is the state but a large band of robbers?" - St. Augustine of Hippo)
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To: Jim Robinson

Putin the Judo expert plays chess. Obama the golf amateur plays “tiddly winks”


10 posted on 09/17/2013 11:47:25 AM PDT by capt B
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To: C210N

It’s like Lord Voldermalt. It’s name must not be mentioned.


11 posted on 09/17/2013 12:26:20 PM PDT by The Public Eye
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To: donmeaker

Love it—Obama has become Mini-Me to Putin.


12 posted on 09/17/2013 1:09:26 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Thanks for noticing! 8-)


13 posted on 09/17/2013 1:23:52 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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