check out all the winking pictures on Drudge right now
Posted on 09/26/2012 5:00:23 PM PDT by RummyChick
The 2012 U.S. presidential election presents a contrast to the 2008 election in terms of their perceptions by the Russian elite.
In 2008, then-President Dmitry Medvedev expressed a desire to work with a "modern" U.S. leader rather than one "whose eyes are turned back to the past." He was referring to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. But influential Russian elites voiced their support for the Republican candidate, John McCain, despite McCain calling President Vladimir Putin a KGB spy who has no soul and calling to expel Russia from the Group of Eight leading industrial nations.
Even though McCain was more critical of the Kremlin, some members of Putin's entourage favored McCain because they believed he was more predictable than Obama. They insisted that Russia was doing well economically, whereas the United States was losing one position in the world after another. Therefore, when confronted with the U.S. threat, Russia might only get stronger and consolidate its status as a great sovereign power. The elite's main concern is with rebuilding power and geopolitical influence. If McCain were in the White House, the thinking went, Putin would have a convenient anti-Russian bogeyman whom the Kremlin could exploit for domestic political reasons, giving it another pretext to ratchet up its anti-Americanism, increase defense expenditures and crack down on the opposition.
Yet it seems that the Kremlin's support for U.S. hawks is shifting. In March, Medvedev took issue with U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney's characterization of Russia as the "No. 1 geopolitical foe." He said the view "smelled of Hollywood stereotypes" and suggested that it was rooted in the Cold War.
Read more: http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/why-putin-wants-obama-to-win/468837.html#ixzz27ci4G7JT The Moscow Times
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OMG...how many people will be blinded by that pic..hahahaha
Make no mistake, he wants the US disarmed so the US cannot compete for resources.
Sort of odd that Ann Dunham AND Barack 0bama Sr. MET IN A RUSSIAN LANGUAGE CLASS, and that Frank Marshall Davis was a card carrying Communist...
"They met in a Russian-language course at a time when the Russian language was inextricably mixed up with communism."
Obama's entire life is a ball of confusion.. I have no doubts this is INTENTIONAL to foil any attempts to find the ORIGIN or SOURCE of the plot. Throw barbs or make 'tin foil hat' comments but history will prove me right.
Why wouldn’t he want Obama in? Obama offered him more “flexibility” after the election.
“I will transmit this information to Vladimir.” —Dmitry Medvedev
One word:
Post-Sputnik America thought it needed to "catch up" with the Soviets, to beat them in space and science and weaponry. Most of the students taking Russian were anything but Communists. A lot of them were science geeks who figured they needed to learn the language, or else snobs who looked down on Spanish and French classes. I don't know specifics about the UHawaii program, but most of the Russian language teachers in American colleges were Russian emigres who were not sympathetic with Communism.
My eyes! How about a warning? That coulda given me E.D. for a week!
There was an opportunity to turn Russia into an ally sitting there for about decade after the fall of the CCCP until SlicKKK KKKlintler bombed a totally innocent Orthodox nation for eighty days and nights including Easter Sunday for no rational reason other than to take Chinagate and Juanita Broaddrick off the front pages of our own newspapers and it’s possible that opportunity might could be resurrected. We’d have to return Kosovo to its rightful owners of course....
Do you know you can use HTML code to make that graphic larger?
That Granny Lady at the State Department.
One Marxist knows another Marxist.
<————runs away, screaming
Putin wants revenge on America. Obama wants to deliver revenge on America.
Russia can save a lot of money on arms expenditures if it can count on comrade obama to surrender.
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