Posted on 04/10/2022 3:40:29 PM PDT by RandFan
American presidents for the past several decades, since the end of the presidency of Ronald Reagan, have had a pretty abysmal record when it comes to the U.S. geopolitical relationship with Russia and Vladimir Putin.
Of course, some presidents are worse than others, but none have really seemed to understand or want to understand the great existential threat posed by Putin and his blood lust for the glory days of the U.S.S.R.
President George W. Bush infamously said that he looked into Putin's eyes and saw his soul.
When my father was campaigning for the 2008 Republican Party presidential primaries, he responded to Bush's comment.
My father said he looked into Putin's eyes and saw 'three letters: a K, a G and a B.'
No one looks back on the Bush years with much regard to his foreign policy instincts or his intellectual heft as a president, but nonetheless it was a particularly stupid thing for the former president to say.
And it stands out for its incompetence given what is happening today amid Putin's continued drive to strengthen his murderous regime.
President Obama was caught on a live mic in 2012 telling Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that he would 'have more flexibility' to negotiate on missile defense after his November election.
In an another infamous clip from the 2012 presidential debate against Senator Mitt Romney, Obama made fun of the governor for bringing up the looming existential threat of Russia and Vladimir Putin.
Obama said 'the 1980's called and they want their foreign policy back.'
At the time, lapdog journalists, including CNN's Chris Cillizza, cheered the gotcha moment instead of taking Romney's warnings seriously.
They applauded like seals over Obama's cheap line – calling it the best moment of the debate.
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Meghan, I consider your dead father an American traitor.
I remember when he met with ISIS leaders in the Middle East and then lied about it back in the US.
It was face-palm embarrassing to see folks post cell phone pics of him there...
I also remember McCain needing to abide to McCain Feingold and not being able to raise money in his own presidential bid. How ironic that one was, crushed by what he championed and even with his name on it! Hahaha
He was a douche.
Trump had it right.
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No, stupid Idiot still spending Dad’s Ill gotten gains, what happened is you ignored major Corruption to get a fellow Deep Stater using Ukraine as a Slush Fund.
Almost 10 yrs ago, Ukraine asked for help to become Energy Independent from Russia / Putin.
Joe Biden sent them Junkie Hunter Biden to help them with their Energy independence, and Joe did it openly and boldly because Corrupt Deep State Oligarchs like John McCain that were supposed to be Oversight were actually Dirty and they simply sold out the American people for their own fortunes.
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Unfortunately the leftwingnuts and their enablers are a bigger threat to this country than Russia and China combined.
Why do I feel like Pizza tonight?
Make that 3 for 3 now.
All McCain or Romney either one had to do was spend ten minutes talking about that wretched preacher at the church Obama aattended in front of the American people and Obama would have never seen the inside of the white house without buying a ticket.
..and if he wasn’t so interested in pleasing his dem buddies and the msmwhores, obamacare would be gone…
“if we had listened then maybe Russia would not be on the march today”
Where exactly is Russia marching to? They can’t even get through Ukraine.
There wasn’t a single country on earth John McCain didn’t want us to go to war with. You would think someone with his experience would be a little less enthusiastic about war.
No shortage of MCCAIN SUPPORTERS on this site, I guess.
Your father was a complete jerk. The only time he showed up at the dinner party is when someone told him there may be a war. He was an indiscriminate globalist lover of wars to bring Democracy, always giving short shrift to vital national security interests.
Maybe we should have sent dresses.
Obama won the election, do his boy Putin gets to absorb Ukraine.
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