Posted on 07/08/2009 1:00:50 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
GOP senator: Obama's Russia trip like 'pile of manure' @ 3:31 pm by Michael O'Brien
President Obama's trip to Russia has produced little more than a "pile of manure," the top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee said Wednesday.
Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.) said that Obama had failed to raise a number of important issues with Russian leaders during meetings there in the first half of this week.
"President Obama, as far as I know, hasn't raised any of those questions — like including cybersecurity, including sanctions on North Korea and Iran," Bond said during a conference with Missouri reporters. "I'm still digging through the manure pile to see if there's a pony in it, but I haven't seen any coming out of the meetings with [Prime Minister] Vladimir Putin and [President Dimitry] Medvedev yet."
Bond also saved some tough words for the Russian government itself, calling it "brutal" and a "despotic kleptocracy." (Kleptocracies are defined by a government that enriches its leaders or ruling class at the expense of the general populous.)
"Sadly, Russia's continued to devolve from what was formerly an evolving, democratic society after the Cold War back into a despotic kleptocracy," Bond said, "A brutal kleptocracy where opponents and journalists are murdered if they speak out against it."
The Missouri lawmaker, who's retiring at the end of this term in Congress, said that Russia needed to diversify and open up its economy, and called on the government to provide more assistance to bolster both the U.S. and Russian governments' cybersecurity efforts.
From time to time, Bond hits one outta the park.
Family Night for Obamas Miffs Some in Moscow (Tired Obama's Gaffes)
Given what they see as American disdain for their interests, the Russians drag their feet on U.S. security worries such as the Iranian nuclear program. "Iran is an American mania," says another Putin adviser dismissively. "Maybe it goes back to your fear of the Indians (in the Wild West). We don't know. Iran is a problem of yours, not of ours."
That is an insult to every pile of manure I’ve ever smelled.
I remember him standing up to the ghetto-voter corruption of Kansas City and St. Louis 2000 or 2004, but that was back in the days of yore, when Republicans still had their man orbs.
“...like a pile of manure.”
Sorta fits with my most used phrase as of late: “I don’t give an Obama.”
Different names, same stuff.
Nice.
Less than that.
another trip the America Tax payers have to pick the tab up for...............where oh where will he jet off to next?
President ‘Pinch-A-Loaf’
It was more like a combination of Yalta and the Treaty of Versailles.
BHO cannot wait to trade away our ballistic missile defense systems like he promised he would during the campaign.
That would be "populace", for those of you playing along at home.
And why does that description sound so familiar???
And this guy is also trying to give Russia economic advice? This coming from a government that is trillions of dollars in debt and contemplating much more?
I'm sure the Russians are soiling themselves in laughing at these comments.
Wonder if Michelle took her harem.
If so, it was just another junket.
Writer totally misses the inherent usefulness of a nice pile of manure.
That’s a pile of hamburger, Kit. It’s the new global commodity for nuclear powers.
While unimportant events like meeting with the Russian premier goes over obozo the clown’s head, obozo is still trying to find out who misspelled his name while taking his first taste of Russian ice cream. Mainstream media has failed to mentioned what kind of ice cream the prez puts in his mouth this time.
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