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Does Anyone Know What to Make of Obama's Sanctions?
The Atlantic ^ | December 12, 2016 | David D. Graham

Posted on 01/01/2017 3:57:26 PM PST by Kaslin

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To: EQAndyBuzz
They were designed to turn republicans against Trump’s nominations. McCain and Graham are already fighting Trumps picks.

The Pox to McCain and Graham

21 posted on 01/01/2017 4:39:28 PM PST by Kaslin (Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible)
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To: Kaslin

It is theater from a drama queen. Made you look though, didn’t he?


22 posted on 01/01/2017 4:42:52 PM PST by pfflier
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To: Combat_Liberalism

Of course what else


23 posted on 01/01/2017 4:43:15 PM PST by Kaslin (Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible)
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To: Jim Robinson

No evidence has been released to even suggest a hack occurred. If they had proof to harm trump it would have been leaked or released by now. They have nothing.


24 posted on 01/01/2017 4:43:48 PM PST by matt04
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To: Kaslin
Why has he been declining so many intelligence briefings?

If they are as worthless as 0bama's so-called cyber-security report then the only reason to hear them would be to find out who to fire.

25 posted on 01/01/2017 4:52:20 PM PST by TigersEye (Congratulations, President Donald J. Trump! - Let's MAGA!!!)
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To: Kaslin

If someone was able to hack the RNC emails, I;m betting all it would reveal is the collusion against Trump. So he wins there too,


26 posted on 01/01/2017 4:53:15 PM PST by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #MyPresident #MAGA)
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To: Kaslin

“”What is a bewildered citizen to make of the sanctions that President Obama levied on Russian officials and the Russian government on Thursday?””

We stopped being bewildered after he’d been in office a few months - like June 2009 for his Cairo speech. This is par for the course for that jerk and no surprise to us.


27 posted on 01/01/2017 4:54:25 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: Kaslin
Russia has been hacking the US since the cold war, this is a straw-man argument. Of course we need a strong defense against hacking ,it starts with government officials being threatened with jail for trafficking government business from unsecured bathroom servers , and we need a strong leader , unlike Obama who let putin run right over him for 8 years, The idiocy of and the media that somehow Russia is just now a threat , after laughing from Reagan to Romney when they all warned us years ago..

This narrative has got to stop, leaking emails is not the same thing as hacking an election.... publishing truth and facts is not harmful to our nation, neither Hillary or the DNC have denied the content of the emails. But the Democrats are all about projection, so if we want to know who the Russians really helped win an election, maybe we should start investigating who funded obama and how did he win two terms ?

Otherwise pure BS

28 posted on 01/01/2017 4:56:46 PM PST by seastay
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To: Jim Robinson

The Left is downright schizophrenic.

One day they tell us nothing Hillary has ever did was wrong.

The next day they tell us Russia tossed the election to Trump by revealing things that Clinton has done.

If they weren’t wrong, how did the release of the information move public opinion away from Clinton?

What’s more, all the revelations were written by Clinton and Podesta’s own hands. Nobody was able to spin it.

Despite this, the reporting of their own statements in their eMails, became “fake news”.

Further, nobody has provided proof that Russia was behind the hacking and releases of information.

The man that has been blamed for releasing the information has said Russia had nothing to do with gathering it.

Add to the mix the very agencies that made the claims that Russia did this, are now bickering internally and with each other about whether it is true that Russia was involved at all.

Obama is now kicking foreign nationals out of our nation, and intimates he isn’t done yet.

Then John McCain makes a public statement that we must commit an “act of war” against Russia, and level severe sanctions to boot.

Well meaning Republicans are so gobsmacked over this, they are joining the McCain “circle of subterfuge and chaos” to back his play in some way.

By rights this would be a complex multi-layered propagandist conspiracy for study at our major universities, but we don’t have any top level universities anymore who will be able to appropriately see all this for what it is.

What should be studied for hundreds of years, so it is never allowed to happen again, will instead be studied as a model for criminals everywhere.

How low does it go? How pervasive is it?

Guy runs a red light into oncoming traffic. It’s an open and shut case right. A vehicle impacts his car, and insurance companies are notified.

Six months later my insurance company is still in litigation because the guy claimed I side-swiped him.

Never admit guilt. Always spin. Lie if you have to. Blame anyone or thing you can, but don’t take responsibility.

That’s what our society is becoming, top to bottom.

Bill Clinton and his political machine have done immeasurable harm to this nation since 1992.

Illegal immigration is a part of it. The people who broke our laws are innocent. Instituting the penalties that are prescribed for such things, that is viewed as the real crime by many folks.

These are examples of tearing the nation apart for personal gain.

The Left is dead set on destroying this nation, and if Trump is blocked in his agenda, they will have succeeded.


29 posted on 01/01/2017 5:13:41 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Recall John McCain. NOW, before he gets us in WWIII.)
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To: Kaslin

Obama “the patriot” is protecting America from Russian nationalism like mafia protects a business.

Of course, that he worships a satanist religion which is in agreement in giving a drug dealer’s helping hand to drug addicts lost in the streets so as to own them for hit jobs, flies above the head of the media which fails to see that while entities like Russia or IsIs may be at odds with America, they are in full agreement as to the pimp methods of doing business in the world


30 posted on 01/01/2017 5:14:45 PM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: Kaslin
Dmitry Kiselyov: "...It seems that on the eve of the inauguration - January, 20 - he will have nothing else left to do for himself but to break all the windows in the White House and to leave behind a pile of **** on the steps."

Pretty much. Like the evicted deadbeat who spray paints the walls and blows up the toilets with M80s.

So sad that Russian propaganda offers more accurate commentary than the NY Times and WaPo.

31 posted on 01/01/2017 5:16:02 PM PST by Sooth2222 ("Every nation has the government it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Kaslin

Consider, that a Soviet Defector has told us that the compound at Glen Cove is used for Signal Intelligence. But Obama didn’t close that one. If I had been aware of this since the 80s, Obama should have known. But he didn’t order this closed. Therefore it means that he’s not serious about this. It’s all for show.
That explains Putins response.


32 posted on 01/01/2017 5:22:52 PM PST by njmaugbill (Nj)
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To: Kaslin
Johnny what do you make of this?
33 posted on 01/01/2017 5:29:16 PM PST by null and void ( If you defy federal law, we deny federal funds.)
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To: Jim Robinson

The only “hacks” in this case are the people surrounding HRC and Barack Obama.


34 posted on 01/01/2017 5:42:54 PM PST by oblomov (We have passed the point where "law," properly speaking, has any further application. - C. Thomas)
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To: Kaslin

Not even OBama knows.


35 posted on 01/01/2017 5:48:17 PM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Kaslin

Political move for local consumption. Meant to add meat to the Trump cheated meme.


36 posted on 01/01/2017 5:53:45 PM PST by Mike Darancette (Make lemonade.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

They were designed to turn republicans against Trump’s nominations. McCain and Graham are already fighting Trumps picks.


Shouldn’t be an issue with a cabinet full of Goldman and Exxon types. The Chamber will be going to bat for them and will deploy heavy lobbying muscle. There will be a beltway theater show in the Senate but I don’t expect any problems getting Trump’s cabinet confirmed.


37 posted on 01/01/2017 5:53:47 PM PST by lodi90
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To: Kaslin
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38 posted on 01/01/2017 5:54:45 PM PST by PeteePie (Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: LydiaLong
A hat...

or maybe a Pterodactyl...


39 posted on 01/01/2017 5:55:39 PM PST by Salamander (Beyond the palace hemi-powered drones scream down the boulevard...)
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To: null and void

DMTA.

:D


40 posted on 01/01/2017 5:57:13 PM PST by Salamander (Beyond the palace hemi-powered drones scream down the boulevard...)
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