Posted on 06/20/2011 9:31:54 AM PDT by Cincinatus
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday he wanted his US counterpart Barack Obama to win re-election next year, fearing that the two men's efforts to improve ties may lose steam under a new administration.
"I can tell you directly -- I would like Barack Obama to be re-elected president of the United States maybe more than someone else," Medvedev said in an interview with the Financial Times whose full transcript was released by the Kremlin early Monday.
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Bingo!
Speaks volumes, doesn’t it?
Yet I haven't heard a single Republican legislator or Presidential candidate talk about this incredible national security risk.
or improving the likelihood America fails?
Reagan wanted to do the same thing.
Further proof of Obama’s incompetence in foreign policy. A Russian agent pretending to be the US President could not have done any better than Obama has in sabotaging our allies and promoting our enemies.
...we could only hope....if I was in charge, I would revisit Gen Patton's plans for Russia....
....it is sooner or later.....in this case, it is later.....but inevitable, I fear.
You know, during WWII the allies decided against a plan for assassinating Hitler because they knew that all of his screw ups would result in an quicker allied victory. Just sayin’...
New campaign slogan for Obama’s re-election: “9 out of 10 enemy leaders can’t be wrong! Vote Obama in 2012!”
What a different world it would have turned out to be if Russia were defeated and chopped into a 100 pieces at the time.
I thought it was a mistake then; Reagan wasn't perfect. It's a much bigger mistake now because we actually have the technology, which we didn't in Reagan's day. Reagan may have been looking for a way to get the program passed, because the Commie-funded international "antiwar" movement and its domestic counterpart were fighting funding of "Star Wars."
0 wrote a thesis on disarmament w/respect to the Soviets, which has been sealed. I bet it deals with unilateral disarmament by the U.S. The latest START treaty does just that.
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