Posted on 12/31/2016 5:11:05 AM PST by SkyPilot
Scathing criticism of President Obama’s decision to expel 35 Russian diplomats is pouring in, with the perhaps curious exception of the leaders of the Republican establishment.
A senior congressional staff member told WND, “What’s amazing to me is how the Obama administration is pursuing a scorched earth policy and attempting to destroy our international relationships across the spectrum from Russia to Israel on their way out the door.”
The aide noted the U.K. and Australia “are openly at odds with them.”
“It’s a mess – and what’s worse, it’s an unnecessary one,” the top staffer concluded.
Rep. Dave Brat, R-Va., said Obama “seems intent on setting the world on fire the month before he leaves office.”
“First he betrays our ally Israel, and is now taking retaliatory action against Russia all within a week,” the congressman continued.
“And he’s doing this without any consultation with Congress, that has yet to see a promised report providing proof that Russia interfered in our election. So, why now?”
“Memo to the president: You lost,” editorialized the New York Post.
“In his waning days in the White House,” the paper continued, “President Obama is desperately trying to make his policies as permanent as possible by tying the hands of his successor,” by presenting President-elect Donald Trump “with a foreign-policy crisis immediately upon taking office.”
Even the left-leaning New York Times conceded Obama’s move “appeared intended to box in President-elect Trump, who will now have to decide whether to lift the sanctions on Russian intelligence agencies when he takes office next month.”
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Trump will put out the fire with an extinguisher.
I wish more people's eyes were opened. I just had lunch with an old friend who dumped every NBC/DNC talking about Mr. Trump on me. It was disturbing and saddening. I am so out of step with my world ... at least here in Maryland.
Obama has ruled his agencies with sheer power, including harassment of whistleblowers. Now that he has no real power and people are seeing what he is really like, hopefully the military and governmental agencies will realize there’s a new sheriff in town and they can do exactly what Putin did - bide their time until the tyrant is gone.
As somebody else on the thread mentioned, if Obama orders a nuke strike, the military may just say, “We’ll wait a few weeks and see...”
That reduces Obama’s arsenal of what he can do. He may be stuck with just what the riff-raff and Islamists enable him to do - which is decidedly better than if he had the full weight of the US military to use against the US.
Putin —does— have a black belt, I think its in karate...
I wouldn’t wanna mess with him either.
Luckily, the Putin and other world leaders know who Obama is even though Americans can’t do anything about it. So they will bide their time until Trump. They know Trump is a tough customer but doesn’t wish to destroy their governments and replace their way of life with an Islamic one.
Luckily, the Putin and other world leaders know who Obama is even though Americans can’t do anything about it. So they will bide their time until Trump. They know Trump is a tough customer but doesn’t wish to destroy their governments and replace their way of life with an Islamic one.
You sound like McCain and Linsey. Thug versus 'smart' used by Trump is a better description of Putin.
Get on board!
If Trump's ego doesn't get the best of him, they should make a great team.
Did you get out of it? I admit I had to walk away from mine in the end. One of the houses I used to live in but had to move due to the increasingly hostile environment and crappy schools. Became a landlord mostly by default.
There are those here that do accuse you of Putin worship at the drop of a hat, that is true.
I know what he is, and he has murdered people, poisoned people, and many other nasty things. He is not the "defender of Christianity" that people claim, nor is he "fighting ISIS." He is working for Russian interests alone. However, for someone like him, that is what I expect him to be.
As wicked as Putin can be, however, at least he loves his country. I have to say that for him. Obama clearly hates America (if this really is his country). God used other empires and individuals in the past to punish other empires and individuals.
I would have no problem if God chose to curse, embarrass, and bring justice to Barry Hussein.
Clearly, they are talking behind the scenes. We already know this. I would not be surpised at all if what you posted were true.
He is going to get more than the most generous pension in Federal service.
I have no doubt he has laundered millions of dollars already. Some of that "stimulus" package worth almost a Trillion went somewhere, much of it overseas to banks and Muslim governments. $6 Billion in State Department funds are "missing." The Billions (in cash and gold bullion) that went to Iran? I bet Barry has a piece of that.
Oh, and not to mention, but Barry is starting his own version of the Clinton Crime Foundation.
It is called (surprise): "The Obama Foundation."
I am not joking.
https://www.barackobamafoundation.org/
Barry and Sasquatch watched Bill and Hillary illegally skim hundreds of millions of dollars from their "foundation." You think they don't want a piece of that? They sure do.
So sorry that happened to you.
Betrayal is the correct word.
If misery loves company at all, I will tell you that my little sister was phyically assaulted and robbed on the Boston blue line near the Acquarium by a gang of black thugs, and as I intervened, they held a knife to my throat.
And we were just riding the subway.
People can be very evil.
Obama is trashing the place, and holding a knife to the nation's throat.
I pray that God protects us these last 20, crucial days.
I know he is brutal and basically a dictator - but if he drags down Obama, I will cheer from the rafters. Believe me.
Correct. He is a classic bully, and like most bullies, he is a coward. Confront him one-on-one, and he is exposed as the coward that he really is.
Obama has abused everyone and everything.
- The Democrats themselves, who have lost hundreds of seats, legislatures, governorships, and power these last 9 years
- The Media, whom he has treated like a used condom (while they in turn have been sick with their sycophant worship)
- Federal workers (including FBI agents, CIA agent, DoD civilians, VA doctors, Border Patrol agents, etc). He froze their pay, allowed them to endure unpaid layoffs (see Sequestration furloughs), and blamed them for his failures. Obama even promised to take pay cut while he laid off employees, and then never even took the pay cut.
- The American people (enough said)
In spite of all of this, Obama believes that people ACTUALLY LOVE AND LIKE HIM!
Many or most don't. Most hate him, or fear him (as in current democrats or the fawning press). When he is finally out of power, he may see all that "support and love" he thought he had go right out the window.
He has been the biggest pri_k on the block for a long, long time. Even when he didn't have to be. It's who he is. A big fall might be coming his way.
I have no way of knowing, but if Barry tried to launch a war right now, some in the Pentagon might be on the phone with General "Mad Dog" Mattis and Trump - pronto. Just a guess.
This particular sister (whose eyes were opened) has been “unfriended” on FB for expressing her opinion. She is starting to understand what i have been going through for YEARS.
We eventually sold the house and moved into a single. I have been a homeowner, a tenant, a landlord, and back again (I own my trailer but I rent the land it’s on).
I still live in MA, but NOT in Boston.
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