Posted on 10/03/2015 3:33:30 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
President Obama is pushing back against the idea that he’s been outmaneuvered in Syria by Russian President Vladimir Putin since the two met at the United Nations on Monday.
Obama appeared frustrated by the suggestion during a press conference this afternoon, dismissing it as a notion only talked about in the Washington D.C.
“Sometimes the conversation here in the Beltway differs from the conversation internationally,” Obama responded.
Obama accused Putin of acting in Syria “out of weakness,” repeatedly referring to Russia’s weakening economy. He also compared his coalition to act against ISIS in Syria to Putin’s unilateral decision to prop up Assad.
“Iran and Assad make up Mr. Putin’s coalition at the moment,” he said. “The rest of the world makes up ours.”
He repeatedly assured reporters that he was “very clear” with Putin about where America stood on Syria, ....... Obama: I’m Not Losing To Putin In Syria.
“This is not some, you know, super power chess board contest and anybody who frames it in that way isn’t paying very close attention to what’s been happening on the chess board,” he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Fool's Gambit is what they call this Zero you effin' moron...
Amen. Remember this; whispered unawares, near a hot microphone? “Please tell Vlad that I’ll have much more flexibility after the (2012) elections.”
"Obama was talking with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev when neither of them realized that their conversation was being picked up by microphones. Here is what they said:
Obama: “On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved, but it’s important for him to give me space.”
Medvedev: “Yeah, I understand. I understand your message about space. Space for you ...”
Obama: “This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility.”
Medvedev: “I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir.”
“This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility.” That statement tells us much about the president’s mindset.
The specific mention of missile defense is worrisome enough. Mr. Obama has retreated from the missile defense plan that was negotiated with European allies during the George W. Bush administration. Apparently, he is signaling Moscow that he intends to retreat further. The clear implication from the president’s comments is that he cannot tell the American people before the election what he plans to do after the election.
In addition, there is the phrase “on all these issues,” implying more is at stake than just missile defense.”
Article: Obama plans double cross on missile defense
When it comes to keeping America safe, we shouldn’t be too flexible:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/29/obama-plans-double-cross-on-missile-defense/print/
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From Investor’s Business Daily, Jan 2012:
Obama To Betray Missile Defense Secrets To Moscow
Investor's Business Daily ^ | January 9, 2012 | IBD staff
Appeasement: From ObamaCare to recess appointments, honoring the Constitution has not been an administration hallmark. But when it comes to betraying secrets to mollify the Russians, it becomes a document the president hides behind.
It was bad enough that the 2012 defense authorization bill signed by President Obama set America on a downward spiral of military mediocrity.
He also issued a signing statement, something he once opposed, saying that language in the bill aimed at protecting top-secret technical data on the U.S. Standard Missile-3 — linchpin of our missile defense — might impinge on his constitutional foreign-policy authority.
Section 1227 of the defense law prohibits spending any funds that would be used to give Russian officials access to sensitive missile-defense technology as part of a cooperation agreement without first sending Congress a report identifying the specific secrets, how they'd be used and steps to protect the data from compromise.
The president is required to certify that any technology shared will not be passed on to third parties such as China, North Korea or Iran, that the Russians will not use transferred secrets to develop countermeasures and that the Russians are reciprocating in sharing missile-defense technology. ..."
“In his signing statement, Obama said he would treat these legal restrictions as “non-binding” and that “my administration will also interpret and implement section 1244 (sic) in a manner that does not interfere with the president’s constitutional authority to conduct foreign affairs and avoids the undue disclosure of sensitive diplomatic communications.”
Betraying our secrets is easy for a president who betrayed allies Poland and the Czech Republic to placate Moscow.
Poland was to host ground-based interceptors such as those we’ve deployed in California and Alaska, with missile-tracking radar deployed in the Czech Republic.
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Obama pulled the plug when Moscow objected. Never mind, he said, we have a better approach: a four-phase plan that calls for using three versions of the Navy’s Standard SM-3 interceptor missile that forms the backbone of its Aegis missile-defense system.
The fourth phase consists of a missile still on the drawing board scheduled for deployment by 2020, a version of the SM-3 called the Block IIB. It would intercept hostile missiles in the “early intercept” phase before an enemy missile could release its warheads and decoys. The Russians want the SM-3’s secrets, and Obama appears to be willing to turn them over.
The president wants to save the New Start Treaty, which the Russians have threatened to abandon if we try to fully implement President Reagan’s dream of defeating a nuclear missile attack.
Russia has unilaterally asserted that any qualitative or quantitative improvement in U.S. missile defenses would be grounds for withdrawal from the treaty.
Read More At Investor’s Business Daily:
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/010912-597158-obama-gives-russia-missile-defense-secrets.htm#ixzz3jXmMbVwY
Obama is winning by the only measures that are important to him. He is destroying the power and prestige of the country, he is leaving a mess for which his successors will be blamed, and he has moved the country to the left. All three are noble goals to him. And he has succeeded with the help of both Democrats and Republicans.
Obama is sounding like a candidate for the nervous hospital. I am not being a wise guy here. His tone of voice (all I am going on - no TV here) has been markedly different.
I think that for a moment the Emperor realized he has no clothes. He’ll probably get over it.
Yes, you are.
Back on thefarm, Russia just drafted another 150,000 ...
Agree.
They both have a vested interest in reducing America's stature in the world.
So Putin “won” the chance to commit air and ground forces in Syria? Congratulations.
Obama’s goal is the degradation of American power. So in his mind, he is WINNING.
Just in case any of you think we will be through with this (fill in the blank) on Jan 20, 2017, Remember Jimmy Carter.
I expect Carter to shuffle off this mortal coil sometime in 2016 and be replaced as the international justifier of dictators and apologist for the United States by “dear leader”.
On our dime. For the next 30 years.
BINGO!! What ELSE could have explained his “tell Vlad I’ll have more “leeway” ( I know it’s not Leeway but it;’s close) after the election!!!!!
Obama know how inferior and gay he is compared to Vlad Putin. This makes is super easy for ol Vlad to push this punks buttons. Putin is making Obama look bad for the history books.
Obama’s use of language is pathetic.
Sadly, yes. Power seeks a vacuum and Obama provides the suck.
The JugEared Kenyan needs to quit while he is behind.
Ovomit actually believes he is handling US and Western foreign policy well when in fact he is blending the worst characteristics of Neville Chamberlain, Jimmuh Carter and Marshall Petain. This is nothing short of a (in the meantime) quiet Pearl Harbor every day.
This is the last series of events involving the dope:
Goes on TV quickly to whine about need for gun control (confiscation). Reason for it, he needed to deflect away from the news of the day about Russia/Syria and how he looked like the fool he is.
Next afternoon goes on TV to whine again about gun control (confiscation) while speaking a bit about Syria and HIS relationship to what is happening there.
This guy is going to continue to chase windmills internationally while subjecting the country to a continued bout of seeing his mug on the TV espousing BS lefty crap for the next 15 months. Worse as the day of his departure gets closer, he will begin issuing edicts which will turn this place into a lefty hell hole. Expect paroles for Clinton if they get too close also.
“This is not some, you know, super power chess board contest and anybody who frames it in that way isn’t paying very close attention to what’s been happening on the chess board,” he said.
Boy Zer0 apparently forgot to make that point clear to Putin, who is quite assuredly playing chess. The Boy is busying himself with finding “transgenders” a place to pee.
“Obama: I’m Not Losing To Putin In Syria” rest of quote - “because I’ve already drawn a red line so there!”
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