Posted on 03/01/2014 5:32:30 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Perhaps because President Obama is looking pitiably weak in his mano a mano with Vladimir Putin over the Ukraine, ABC News chose to bury the story during today's Good Morning America. Incredibly, the Ukrainian crisis the show-opening teaser didn't mention the Ukraine--but did highlight the latest on The Real Housewives of New Jersey. As the program unfolded, and before saying a word about the Ukraine, GMA inexcusably chose to air segments on rain in California, snow in the North, a laser being shined into a plane's cockpit, an airplane bird strike, the arrest of a Mexican drug lord, the cause of Philip Seymour Hoffman's death, and Mardi Gras in Brazil.
When GMA finally got around to the most serious story in the world right now, it did its best to protect President Obama. Two nights ago on FNC, Charles Krauthammer did a devastating take-down on President Obama's feeble statement, saying “the Ukrainians, and I think everybody, is shocked by the weakness of Obama’s statement. I find it rather staggering.” So how did GMA's reporter Alex Marquardt describe the Obama statement? As a "harsh warning."
Gag me with a kalashnikov, and view the video here.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Kerry and White House spokesman Jay Carney both said any Russian military intervention in Ukraine would be a "grave mistake" and that the United States was watching closely to see if Russian activity was "crossing a line." They did not, however, spell out any consequences for such an intervention.
"Crossing a line"!!??!!
We are being led by the biggest pansies in American foreign policy in HISTORY.
Laughing at that graphic, half with tears of hilarity, half with tears of remorse over the demise of our nation.
I see a cartoon with Obama drawing a line in red and Putin being way across the line and moving out.
The Post-American order stands for nothing except its own dismantling. That is why Obama sets red lines that he won’t enforce and issues threats that he doesn’t mean.
The only thing less appealing than selfishness is the complete absence of self. The only thing less appealing than empire is an anti-imperialism that so thoroughly negates its own power that it has no influence and no reason to exist.
Post-American America exists to destroy itself. Until that changes, it has nothing to offer the world except membership in a suicide pact.
I seem to reccomember that “ditz” of a VP candidate in 2008 predicting something like this.
At least that is what all the wizards of Smart called her back then.
But wait, Not just “something like this”, she made a statement saying, Russia would probably take Ukraine just as they had taken Georgia in 2008. Damn, she was RIGHT again. RUN SARAH RUN”
I seem to reccomember that “ditz” of a VP candidate in 2008 predicting something like this.
At least that is what all the wizards of Smart called her back then.
But wait, Not just “something like this”, she made a statement saying, Russia would probably take Ukraine just as they had taken Georgia in 2008. Damn, she was RIGHT again. RUN SARAH RUN!
Jim, what’s his name posted this yesterday to remind us of Sarah’s prediction.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3128116/posts
PALIN MOCKED IN 2008 FOR WARNING PUTIN MAY INVADE UKRAINE IF OBAMA ELECTED
Breitbart ^ | Feb 28, 2014 | By Tony Lee
Posted on by Jim Robinson
During the 2008 presidential campaign, Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin warned that if Senator Barack Obama were elected president, his “indecision” and “moral equivalence” may encourage Russia’s Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine.
Palin said then:
“After the Russian Army invaded the nation of Georgia, Senator Obama’s reaction was one of indecision and moral equivalence, the kind of response that would only encourage Russia’s Putin to invade Ukraine next.”
For those comments, she was mocked by the high-brow Foreign Policy magazine and its editor Blake Hounshell, who now is one of the editors of Politico magazine.
In light of recent events in Ukraine and concerns that Russia is getting its troops ready to cross the border into its neighboring nation, nobody seems to be laughing at or dismissing those comments now.
Hounshell wrote then that Palin’s comments were “strange” and “this is an extremely far-fetched scenario.” “And given how Russia has been able to unsettle Ukraine’s pro-Western government without firing a shot, I don’t see why violence would be necessary to bring Kiev to heel,” Hounshell dismissively wrote.
Palin made her remarks on the stump after Obama’s running mate Joe Biden warned Obama supporters to “gird your loins” if Obama is elected because international leaders may test or try to take advantage of him.
Oh yes, and to earn his Nobel Peace Prize, he reducing our military to before WW2 strength. Happy Days are here again!
You can bet that he's not shaking in his 'mommy jeans' unlike others that may be.
Sure hope another important call doesn't come in at 3 a.m.
“Sure hope another important call doesn’t come in at 3 a.m.”
Or any other time.
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