Obama suggested we are in our “Sputnik moment”.
And…
Sputnik - meaning “satellite” and roughly translated as “fellow traveler.”
It follows…
Fellow traveler or fellow traveller is a derogatory term referring to a person who sympathizes with the beliefs of an organization or cooperates in its activities without maintaining formal membership in that particular group. In the early Soviet Union the approximate term was used without negative connotation to describe writers and artists sympathetic to the goals of the Russian Revolution who declined to join the Communist Party. The English-language phrase came into vogue in the United States during the 1940s and 1950s as a pejorative term for a sympathizer of Communism or particular Communist states, who was nonetheless not a “card-carrying member” of a Communist party. -wikipedia
So then…Obama is calling for our “communist sympathizing moment”?
As if that was a news flash or something!
Obama is not intelligent enough to make the connection. Some speechwriter suggested he use the term.