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It's 3 A.M., and Obama's Phone is Ringing
Townhall.com ^ | March 5, 2014 | John Kass

Posted on 03/05/2014 10:09:38 AM PST by Kaslin

As he seeks to rebuild the Russian empire, strongman Vladimir Putin has developed a terribly obnoxious habit.

He keeps dragging the Obama White House back to a difficult place.

It's called "reality."

Putin's military capture of Crimea, a region of Ukraine, is just the latest example. His could be an act of willfulness, or a desperate attempt to stave off Russian decline. But in any case, no sane American would argue for a shooting war over Ukraine. The point is to avoid miscalculations that could lead to one.

It's like that phone call at 3 a.m. to a White House run by an inexperienced leader, that call Hillary Clinton warned America about years ago.

Her devastating 2008 campaign spot of that ringing phone, arguing that Barack Obama was not ready for the call, was profound. And it was profoundly forgotten.

It faded away as America was captured instead by his soaring rhetoric and the messianic politics orchestrated by Obama's mythmakers.

Clinton's campaign was gutted by Obama's expert and cynical use of the race card. The Democratic Party arithmetic made it impossible to win without African-American voters. And she lost them when he said hello.

As Clinton receded, wounded, humiliated by the devastating label of racial insensitivity, the American media grew bored with her. But journalists found a new hobby: placing laurel wreaths upon the head of Mr. Obama.

Vesting a nation's leader with unearned virtues isn't particularly American. The same goes on in the Russian media.

Putin is portrayed at home as man of action, the strongman of Russia who tames bears and conquers other wild beasts, sometimes with his will alone, and sometimes with his shirt on.

But good intelligence services are not run by sentimentalists. These are people of cold mind.

And somewhere in the Kremlin, there must be a dossier on Obama, something a bit more comprehensive than media gushing about his use of symbolism.

What would such a Russian dossier tell Putin about the nature of the man?

It would tell Putin that Obama rose on the wings of an America tired of war.

And that Obama flew skyward, preaching about ethics, and promising hope and change we could believe in, all of it orchestrated brilliantly by David Axelrod, who doubled as the mouthpiece of Chicago's supremely cynical political boss, then-Mayor Richard M. Daley.

Putin already knew that Obama had absolutely no executive experience before taking the most important executive job in the world. And that he charmed his way into the job. America, tired of war and fearful of a collapsing economy, reached for the president from Chicago in the way a drowning man reaches for a chunk of floating wood.

But the Obama dossier would mention what many here have ignored about the president's formative years: Obama challenged power only once.

And when he did so, U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush branded him as not black enough for the South Side. It was a lesson Obama never forgot.

From then on, Obama didn't challenge power. He accommodated it.

He got down on his knees before it, asking Illinois Senate President Emil Jones to make him a United States senator.

And so Obama climbed out of Chicago.

Young, risk-averse people who teach themselves never to challenge power can and do succeed. They can prosper in an America that has reshaped itself as a kind of modern Byzantium.

They do well in corporate and political life. They punch their tickets. They make their connections. They gather support among like-minded bureaucrats and clerks, as the Byzantines once did.

They rise. They prosper.

But they don't grow up to be William Wallace.

Instead, they become older men who can always find practical reasons for acquiescing.

That kind of man can turn his back on Poland, after that nation agreed to a U.S.-backed missile defense shield, and feign shock that Russia would see an opening.

Though Obama was a gentle stalk of asparagus when it came to Chicago's City Hall, he has shown flashes of backbone as president.

For example, during a tough re-election campaign, he fended off calls by Israel to support a military strike against a nuclear Iran that had threatened to obliterate Israel. His resolve was vastly underrated.

He's withdrawn our troops from Iraq. He's getting us out of Afghanistan, too. And he gave that order to take out Osama bin Laden.

But it's his desire to avoid confrontation that must whet Putin's appetite.

Like at the famous 2012 photo-op in Seoul with Putin's acolyte, Dmitry Medvedev. On a hot microphone, Obama asked Medvedev for time on missile defense issues until he put his own politics in order.

"This is my last election ...," Obama was overheard to say. "After my election I have more flexibility."

"I will transmit this information to Vladimir," said Medvedev.

Imagine Putin smirking at Obama being so eager to make friends.

Later, in a debate with Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, Obama attacked Romney for daring to call Russia our leading geopolitical foe.

"Gov. Romney ... the 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back," Obama said. "Because the Cold War has been over for 20 years."

It was a snarky bite, like a Twitterverse rendition of complicated and dangerous history.

President Obama, the '80s aren't alone in calling for their foreign policy back.

The '60s and '70s are calling now, too.

And your White House phone is ringing.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: 3am; globalsecurity; momjeans; resident0bama; vladimirputin
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1 posted on 03/05/2014 10:09:38 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

The phone is still ringing form Benghazi.


2 posted on 03/05/2014 10:11:34 AM PST by mountainlion
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To: mountainlion

Yup... and the lights are on, the dog is barking... and no one is home!


3 posted on 03/05/2014 10:31:16 AM PST by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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But, but, but he has a peace prize. The world thinks he is historic...he, he, he....why is the world picking on him. It’s because he’s black isn’t it...the world is picking on him because he is black. I suppose they are going to call Putin a racist next, or homophobe...I can’t believe my country has devolved to this point. Our founding fathers would literally be appalled at this bumbling idiot!


4 posted on 03/05/2014 10:36:55 AM PST by areukiddingme1 (areukiddingme1 is a synonym for a Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and tired of liberal BS.))
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To: Kaslin

Yeah I think that phone call went to VOICE MAIL LOL!


5 posted on 03/05/2014 10:37:01 AM PST by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: Kaslin

Affirmative action on display with horrible results to come.


6 posted on 03/05/2014 10:41:42 AM PST by Texas resident
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To: Kaslin
He [Putin] keeps dragging the Obama White House back to a difficult place.

Awwwwww - is poor widdle President Momjeans getting uncomfortable?

7 posted on 03/05/2014 10:43:24 AM PST by kiryandil (turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))
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To: SMARTY

But no one cares cause the SNAP cards are still scanning.


8 posted on 03/05/2014 10:44:07 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: SevenofNine; All

“Yeah I think that phone call went to VOICE MAIL LOL!”

Hello, you have reached Barrack Hussein Obama, I am not home right now because I was out of ideas 30 days into my presidency, quite frankly I wasn’t supposed to be elected but enough of you idiots pulled it off. I am out hiding, doing some lame BS to keep from having to address any serious issues. I will be checking this VM periodically to see if my tee times have been reserved. God you people are stupid...can’t you see how far over my head I am. Don’t bother leaving a message, I probably don’t/won’t have any answers for your problems anyway. Beeeeeppppp


9 posted on 03/05/2014 10:44:19 AM PST by areukiddingme1 (areukiddingme1 is a synonym for a Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and tired of liberal BS.))
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10 posted on 03/05/2014 10:48:37 AM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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11 posted on 03/05/2014 10:48:50 AM PST by LucyT (If you're NOT paranoid, you don't know what's going on.)
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To: Kaslin
Hello. Hello. Pootie? Pootie is that you? Hellooooo.....


12 posted on 03/05/2014 10:49:36 AM PST by Iron Munro (Albert Einstein: The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits)
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To: Kaslin
I followed up the reference to William Wallace. Yikes! That gentleman paid a high price for his Scottish bravery.
13 posted on 03/05/2014 10:52:52 AM PST by AZLiberty (No tag today.)
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To: SMARTY

The saga continues.


14 posted on 03/05/2014 10:56:22 AM PST by mountainlion
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To: Kaslin

It’s 3 A.M., and Obama’s Phone is Ringing

Michelle’s calling from China...she left something behind...


15 posted on 03/05/2014 11:02:18 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: Kaslin

He disconnected that phone a long time ago... sometime around 9.11.2012.


16 posted on 03/05/2014 11:05:01 AM PST by ponygirl (Be Breitbart.)
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To: ponygirl

He sure did


17 posted on 03/05/2014 11:08:22 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Tennessee Nana

I wouldn’t mind her staying there


18 posted on 03/05/2014 11:14:28 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin

I couldn’t think of anything she might have left behind that might be funny

:)


19 posted on 03/05/2014 11:15:17 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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It WAS 3am and the Obama phone was ringing. He kept hitting the snooze button to make the phone stop and then rolled over.


20 posted on 03/05/2014 11:15:28 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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