Posted on 06/04/2008 10:07:03 PM PDT by neverdem
Europeans starting to focus on the post-primary debate in America — and on what an Obama administration might mean — will want to pay particular attention to the op-ed dispatch in the Wall Street Journal yesterday from Senator Schumer. The Democrat of New York proposes that America deal with the Iranian nuclear crisis by turning Eastern Europe back over to Russia. If that sounds like an exaggeration, we commend a reading of the article in full at WSJ.com.
Sure enough, the senator claims that Prime Minister Putin "is an old-fashioned nationalist who seeks to regain the power and greatness Russia had before the fall of the Soviet Union." What greatness was that exactly, senator? The part where the political prisoners were sent to the Gulag? Or where the East Germans trying to escape over the Berlin Wall to freedom were shot and killed? Or where the Jews weren't allowed either to worship or leave?
Mr. Schumer proposes to please Mr. Putin by abandoning NATO's plans to provide Poland, the Czech Republic, and Romania with a missile defense. That defense, quoth Mr. Schumer, "mocks Mr. Putin's dream of eventually restoring Russian hegemony over Eastern Europe." What is Mr. Schumer saying here — that he sides with Mr. Putin's plan to gain hegemony over Eastern Europe? What message would it send to our NATO allies in Warsaw, Prague, and Bucharest to bow to Mr. Putin's dream of putting Europe back under the Russian boot?
Mr. Schumer claims that the missile defense sites are "to thwart the threat of a nuclear missile attack by Iran," a threat that Mr. Schumer describes as "hypothetical and remote." Well, if the governments in Poland, and Czech Republic, and Romania thought the threat was so remote, they would not have invited the missile defense sites to be...
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I'm still waiting for Chucky's hearings on drug companies, SSRIs and multiple school shootings.
I’m actually shocked anyone would suggest this. This isn’t our choice to make! It’s totally NUTS.
Forget Hillary! I nominate Schumer as barak’s VP!
Did Schumer suddenly forget about his constituents with Eastern European non-Russian heritages?
Schumer IS a problem himself.
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Russians have replaced Italians as the main white ethnic group in the southern part of Brooklyn. Although the original wave were Jews under Jackson Vanick, most that have come since the late 1980s have been Orthodox and Pentecostal Christians, many of whom are pro-Putin.
LOL! He was supposed to have gotten 1600 on the old SAT. I read that in the NY Times.
Why in the world would a Pentecostal Christian be pro-Putin?
“National Pride.” That’s what they will tell you.
NY State's population as has been remarkably stable, close to a little over 18 million for at least 4 decades now, IIRC, after probably millions of foreign and domestic immigrants. The emigrants from NY left for good reason, no doubt.
Pentecostals are persecuted by the Russian govt and the Orthodox as a ‘sect’.
Is Schumer a Russian Jew?
Or simply an ignorant SOB?
Perhaps BOTH?
once again schmuckie proves that he is the worst senator in united states history.
To abandon East Europe to Russia would surely be one of the first actions of an Obama Administration, much of whose base still despairs over the falling of the former Soviet Union.
Obama has indicated that he would cancel the missile defense system and dramatically lower the number of nuclear weapons of the U. S.
That is the tip of the iceberg when one considers the present left orientation of the Democratic Party - not to mention the large radical base of Obama and huge money input from George Soros and his longing for a “one-world” government (i.e., one-government world).
Wow. Carol Mosely Brown loses the crown!
“National Pride”, apparently honorable for the future USSR, but condemned by every Democrat here in the USA.
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