Posted on 03/14/2014 8:39:54 AM PDT by managusta
For the America which is well aware that sometimes in life you get beaten up by someone on the street, two things are clear. Firstly, instead of being surprised and naively trying to change the world, you have to equip yourself with a shotgun.
Secondly, if the Republicans were in power right now, things would look completely different. Did Mitt Romney not point to Russia, saying that it is the biggest threat to the U.S.? He was not wrong! Did Sarah Palin err when she fired off that comment in 2008, saying that if Obama became president, Russia would invade Ukraine? This woman did predict that! A prophecy worthy of Nostradamus — and Palin did not hesitate to bring it back a few days ago on her Facebook account.
John McCain, Obama’s competitor back in 2008, triumphs, pointing to the damaging effects of the infamous “reset” with Russia and to the inefficacy of Obama’s administration, because this is what this administration’s foreign policy is all about. Obama’s America betrayed its allies in Poland and the Czech Republic, leaving them at the mercy of their Soviet neighbor.
Radosław Sikorski, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, did ask and still urges Americans to open an American base in Poland. Under Reagan and Thatcher it was no different; even Russian dissidents and Ukrainian oppositionists agree with this, according to an interview published in Gazeta Wyborcza.
It boils down to the regret that Obama is a terrible leader, and more specifically, not a leader at all. The deeper right wing indulges in speculation that Putin not only arouses natural hostility in Obama, but also impresses him as a socialist, in the way that one socialist can be impressed by another socialist.
As Nicholas Kristof writes in The New York Times, in the discussion on Obama’s passivity toward Ukraine, Americans completely forgot about Russia. There are so many insults in the U.S. media directed at the president that a completely clueless passerby who had just opened a newspaper would initially think it was not Putin who attacked Crimea, but Obama.
McCain advises incorporating Georgia into NATO and starting to think again about a missile defense system being placed in the Czech Republic and Poland. Hillary, here is your “reset”! Obama, here is your flop! How could the Middle East possibly be scared when, as Washington gossip has it, Sasha and Malia are not afraid of their dad?"
I don't know about that. There seems to be plenty of bipartisan incompetence to go around (as usual) when it comes to Russia & Putin.
Putin's last invasion of a sovereign country - Georgia - happened on GWB's watch & no one seemed to pay much attention.
Obama Calls Putin and …
Sets up a golf date.............................
Gets his voicemail.
Obama Calls Putin and …
Putin hits the FU Button..................
Shotgun? Are you ready for an atomic bomb?
....tries to sell him health insurance.
Is placed on hold IGNORE!
Barry is Putin’s boy. He’ll do whatever Putin tells him to do.
Obama Calls Putin and …
Gets a Recording: ‘Press one for Russian.......
Obama Calls Putin and …
Gets a Muzak recording of ‘The Way we Were’........
I don’t know. Putin may pick it up just to have a good laugh.
Yeah Barry, what is it now?
Er ah, well, ah ah ah, I was hoping you would change your mind on the Crimea.
Yeah Barry I did, I am not stopping with just the Crimea, I want the whole country.
Er, ah ah ah, well, that is not 21st century politics.
Yeah Barry, it is not, so what and good bye.
Way We Were
Songwriters: Hamlisch, Marvin
Memries,
Like the corners of my mind
Misty water-colored memories
Of the way we were
Scattered pictures,
Of the smiles we left behind
Smiles we gave to one another
For the way we were
Can it be that it was all so simple then?
Or has time re-written every line?
If we had the chance to do it all again
Tell me, would we? could we?
Memries, may be beautiful and yet
What’s too painful to remember
We simply choose to forget
So it’s the laughter
We will remember
Whenever we remember...
The way we were...
The way we were...
Obama Calls Putin and …
Gets a Muzak recording of You Don’t Bring me Flowers’......
“You Don’t Bring Me Flowers”
NEIL DIAMOND
You don’t bring me flowers
You don’t sing me love songs
You hardly talk to me anymore
When you come through the door
At the end of the day
I remember when
You couldn’t wait to love me
Used to hate to leave me
Now after lovin’ me late at night
When it’s good for you
And you’re feeling alright
Well, you just roll over
And you turn out the light
You don’t bring me flowers anymore
It used to be so natural
To talk about forever
But ‘used to be’s’ don’t count anymore
They just lay on the floor
‘Til we sweep them away
And baby, I remember
All the things you taught me
I learned how to laugh
And I learned how to cry
Well I learned how to love
Even learned how to lie
You’d think I could learn
How to tell you goodbye
‘Cause you don’t bring me flowers
Anymore
Well, you’d think I could learn
How to tell you goodbye
‘Cause you don’t bring me flowers
Anymore
Does anyone, anyone at all (that is paying attention, low information voters excluded for obvious reasons) believe that for one minute that this president was elected because of content of his character, extraordinary executive skill, and commanding presence.
How many would believe that he would easily find himself in over his head time and time again when dealing with issues that demand rigorous, thoughtful contemplation, and action.
But because this president was elected because of “who” he was and not “what” he was much in the manner that American idol contestants are selected – Because more people “liked” him and not because he was better.
So here we are – the first American idol president is trying to lead from behind in a world that does not reward cowardice or impotence.
How many believe young Americans are going to die because we elected the wrong president…Would Putin be as aggressive as he is now with a stronger, more experienced, competent, firm, and direct president, I most certainly think not.
Ambiguity gets people killed every time.
Time will tell just how wrong half of this country was in electing this amateur either with the lives of Ukrainians and/or young Americans as the result of a very shallow thinking electorate.
Elections do have consequences – I sure hope we do much better next time.
Obama Calls Putin and …
Is placed on hold IGNORE!
____________________________________________________________
Hussein needs to once again decide “who’s ass to kick”......
“Hussein needs to once again decide “who’s ass to kick”......”
That’s easy...US Senate rino’s never fight back...
I like that one ignore call LOL!
...is instructed to fetch tea and canapes.
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