Posted on 12/31/2016 12:06:13 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
It’s easy to come up with several different reasons for the Obama administration’s moves against Russia and Israel.
The repudiation of his policies in last month’s election would have wounded a normal person’s ego, to say nothing of someone as vain as Obama. To rub it in, the press has left the setting to follow the rising sun, reporting so much about Trump that Obama had seemed quite forgotten.
The extraordinary burst of diplomatic activity over the last week, so unusual for a departing president, might therefore seem a piece of Obama’s petulant claim that he could have defeated Trump had he been able to run for a third term. It reminds one of the party Bill Clinton threw for himself after leaving office on George W. Bush’s Inauguration Day, in order to upstage the new president. When they leave office, recent Democratic presidents find it difficult to withdraw into a customary, dignified obscurity.
But there’s more to it than that. What is behind Obama’s attack on Russia and Israel is a pathetic attempt to tie the hands of the new administration, and to extend his rule beyond the two terms allotted a president.
It’s no secret that Trump seeks an accommodation with Russia and desires an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and that he’d pursue this in a very different manner from Obama and former Secretary Hillary Clinton.
By demonizing Russia, and withdrawing our historic support for Israel, Obama sought to place an insurmountable barrier to Trump’s two major foreign-policy initiatives, even as the flurry of enormously costly new regulations is meant to tie the hands of Trump’s domestic-policy advisers....
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Obama’s “Russian Sanctions” fit has reduced him to the image of a practical joker. He brings to mind the type of prankster who booby traps a doorway by placing a bucket of water set precariously on top of an open doorway.
The person opening the door was meant to be Donald Trump and the bucket of water falling was meant to be a brand new unexpected, unprovoked war with Russia. I war of the superpowers, it this nuclear day and age. Obama plays very dangerous games with both the office of the presidency and the security of the American People. Conduct very much unbecoming!
Only the failed gang of eight could fall for this BS.
What’s next. A whoopie cushion left in the Oval Office?
I worry about a major false-flag from the Uniparty to further de-stabilize the transition. We have a few million really pissed rich guys on our hands.
It’s sad, but these just might be Obama’s best efforts at sabatoge. The guy really is that stunningly inept.
Folks need to realize America has been conned into electing an immature child to the presidency.Obama was elected simply because he was black and we were conned by the media and educational system into electing him because of slavery and the need to repay.
If Obama had been vetted and researched the way Hillary or Trump has the only way he could have been elected was still by the brow beating America has been handed.
If the truth were told no doubt blacks have been mistreated but so have the poor and working class in America,even though not to the extent some blacks have.
Our ignorance and our educational system has brought America to the brink of destruction. In my 77 years on this earth I have not seen the hatred,arrogance and general evil as such as I see now. I have no doubt the Democrat Party is Evil and about to destroy America with the help of the Media and Academia.
Obama is like a rotten,spoiled child.
Doesn’t all the failed efforts of the left, including the man child king,make Trump seem even more invpvincible?
I think Obama is vastly overestimating the people that he thinks will be hanging on to his every word once he leaves office. Without Val Jar to tell him how smart and wonderful he is on a daily basis—how will he cope? Who does he think wants to hear his advice on anything?
Petty, a good way to describe Obama.
About the only thing Obama hasn’t done, is write Trump’s name and phone number on the bathroom stall walls, “For a good time call xxx.xxx.xxxx.
Since the man was fist sworn in, I have said he was a nine year old in a man’s (well sort of) body.
Nothing has changed my mind.
His perception of global dynamics, 9 year old.
His perception of how to deal with global leaders, (Bow) 9 year old.
His perception of the U.S. the evil empire, 9 year old.
His perception of race in the nation, 9 year old.
His grasp of right from wrong, 6 year old.
He is pathetic...
The Unions will always be around for him. So will the NAACP,Black Lives Matter and you can bet American Muslims will be there. He will have a Radical following always.
Obama is nothing but a spoiled child that has never matured. His parents (the media) fawn all over him for eight years and then all of the sudden they are no longer fawning over him as much. So, the spoiled child lashes out — only in this case the tantrum could have very serious international and national negative consequences.
I worry about reparations the last week by EO. There would be race riots if Trump rescind them.
I worry about reparations the last week by EO. There would be race riots if Trump rescind them.
All of a sudden I’m black.
Well,I guess we will have to settle it sometime...?
Otherwise, fear of race riots is no way to live nor should any policies be altered out of any kind of fear..period.
It'll never fly. Completely unconstitutional.
Hey, hey, ho, ho, McCain and Graham have to go.
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