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April 3, 2009

Comrade Obama

AFP: Russia’s Dmitry Medvedev hailed Barack Obama as “my new comrade” Thursday after their first face-to-face talks, saying the US president “can listen” — even if little progress was made on substance. The Russian president contrasted Obama as “totally different” to his predecessor George W. Bush, whom he blamed for the “mistake” of US missile shield plans fiercely opposed by Moscow. Yeah. That whole “peace through strength”-thing proved something of

Yes. But the real question is, did he give him a toy helicopter or a bitchin’ iPod, too?

Giuliani once practically spit in the face of a presumptuous Saudi Prince. Our President? He fucking bowed. He bowed to religious intolerance. He bowed to misogyny. He bowed to anti-semitism. He bowed to homophobia. In short, he surrendered our country’s ideals, offering up our principles for sacrifice on the altar of Otherness — behaving much as the Brits’ royal class and the continental elites have long behaved, favoring the sumptuous