Well, that’s what he said in so many words.
Pardon me for sounding all Visigothy, Mssrs. Moran and Frum, et al., but it sure does seem to me that Obama is telling the Russians — in a message he wants passed along to Putin — that, once he’s re-elected, he can drop all facades and surrender the US strategic nuclear advantage. Killing off Reaganism, as so many of his university-era papers proposed to do. To make the world more “fair.”
Why, it’s almost as if Obama saw the defeat of the former Soviet Union as some unfortunate world occurrence in need of rectification. And that, given a second term — after, he hopes, being elected on phony “pragmatism,” a media-fueled and enabled propaganda campaign, a billion dollar negative campaign ad blitz, and the careful and intentional Balkanization (hah! fitting, that!) of the electorate — he will happily work from the far left and against the will of the majority of Americans, whom Obama and his wife and his entire cadre of intellectual fellow travelers, though they pretend to champion them, clearly despise, to bring about a more pleasing balance to world power. For the fairness.
But hey: maybe this is just another example of how the President is simply in over his head. I mean, how can any “sane” conservative see anything malicious or intentional in such a minor mic gaffe?
It’s paranoia. It’s far-right fringe right far fringy rightwing far far extremist extremism on the wignut far extreme fringe, is what it is. Plus, you know — unhelpful.
I don’t remember who it was yesterday that I read complaining, “Why is it that the Russian President should be privy to more American military and foreign policy than the American people?”
I could only reply that the ruling class recognize their own.
But Jeff, this notable recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize assured us that he isn’t hiding the ball.
Now, running a Three Card Monty? Still in play.
Hey, just because the Cold War is over doesn’t mean that we still don’t deserve to lose it!
Is this helpful?
Actually, this Administration’s whole public façade could well be explained as an elaborate magic trick1, come to think of it… Misdirection, watch the Ball Hand while we run guns to the cartels.
1: “They’re called illusions, Michael. A trick is something a whore does for money.”
Imagine the possibilities with flexibility.
Red Dawn
The Day After
Seven Days in May
The Manchurian Candidate
On the Beach
Mad Max
The Road Warrior
The Postman
Waterworld
The Hunger Games
Idiocracy
I wouldn’t have taken you for a believer in global warming zamoose.
Who gave Obama the keys to the time machine?
It’s Treason, nuff’ said
OT…Someone here recommended ‘ A State of Disobedience ‘. I was intrigued, bought it and it arrived today, Grandchildren are here, but I will dive into it tomorrow!! So, Thank you, person I can’t remember.
frank marshall davis is smiling in some corner of hell
Keep lettin’ that mask slip, Barrykins, and the peasants may begin to notice the syphilitic chancres on your face.
Not that I’m saying your a slut for whoring out missile defense to Putin, darling.
For people to notice, they have to pay attention, and the MBM has to give it more than a single dismissive mention.
Not that I’m saying you’re a slut
stoopid fingers
“Cover me, Comrade!”
I’m a little freaked out.
Not as much as are the Israelis, Poles, Ukrainians, Georgians, Japanese, and South Koreans, though.
Why do I suspect that if Putt gets flexible the American people will be the ones bent over?
If Obama gets the opportunity to be flexible, the American people will be the ones shoveling the dirt over themselves.
What’s being called a hot mic gaffe is our President, on tape, essentially comitting treason; or promising to after the election…
After all the money and time spent developing the most important component of our national defense for the 21st century, an area we’ve got a substantial lead on all the nations of the world in, to be willing to simply throw it all away, and it’s concomitant strategic advantages and initiative, all to realize his hemp-fueled college “nice dreams” of NO NUKES!, is not just preposterous and naive, it’s simply treason…
Memo to The Won: Russia is a declining world power, one that will never really reduce their nuclear arsenal, given their conventional military decline, since that same nuclear arsenal is the only thing that makes them any semblance of a world power. Remember O! great polymath and rara avis, there are more bad guys with nuclear weapons out there who kinda-sorta don’t like us, like, oh, say, the Chinese, Pakistanis, and soon…The Iranians. We’ll need a boatload of nukes to balance their ever increasing nuclear arsenals.
Especially after you give away all of the technical secrets to the Russians; and they in turn promptly pass them around through back-channels to all those aformentioned players-along with the reverse engineered Russian version of the Standard Missile and the Aegis system!
Dude. The Rethugs need to ride this hard. Not only for it’s direct exploitation, but to underscore to the voters that Obama can’t be trusted not to double cross the nation in all ways possible if given a second term.
It’s treason, straight up.
Now how do you expect people to take you seriously when you call the President a traitor?
Stupid visigoth!
I know, it’s unhelpful…But this kind of thing makes my blood boil.
And O! has indicated he’ll do it despite the fact that the recently signed NDAA specifically forbids him from disseminating missile defense technology to the Russians.
But then, he’s done a few other things that the Constitution forbids him from doing. But like many crooked attorneys, his attitude is, so sue me…
But, as you say, visigothery. And of the RAAAAACIST! variety as well.
I’m sure it’s his mother’s contribution to his genetic makeup that makes him do bad things, Bob.
Perhaps Ernst. THE BITCH!
Or Frank Marshall Davis…
A real, old school, card carrying commie. The kind Putin’s predecessors played like a violin. Now Obama’s trying to follow through with the plan-even though the cold war is over, and the Reds lost!
Well, at least the ones outside America…
The Reds lost? Tell that to all the people who lionize Gorbechev, who saved the world from that trigger-happy dinosaur riding cowboy sonofabitch REAGAN!
It seems some people really can win for losing.
Personal anecdote. Back in March of ’08, when we were stuck with McCain and all that stood between us and President Hillary! was Obama, and I was (briefly) hoping Obama would win the nomination and spare us four more years of Clinton melodrama, I remember hearing an excerpt of an Obama interview (probably on Rush) in which Obama was having a Gorbasm, and I distinctly remember thinking Jesus Christ! This Asshole thinks Gorbie won the Cold War by losing!
That was a very bad day.
Cheer up, it could have been worse — it could’ve been January 20, 2009.
And don’t look at me, all I was doing during the Hillary-vs.-Obama smackdown was eating popcorn and vowing to never vote for McMaverick.
Hy, remember that crazy, seditious, right wing lunatic Hutaree militia that was proof of the violence inherent in the Tea Party a couple of years ago? Case dismissed (with the exception of a couple of weapons charges.)
He’s just like Romney!
What’s being called a hot mic gaffe is our President, on tape, essentially comitting treason; or promising to after the election…
It’s what Ted Kennedy would have done.
Is this guy this bad or did they throw the fight? The individual mandate gets tossed and severed but everything else stays. That’s a disaster, which Obama or Romney would be delighted to help fix.
Verrilli will be much, much better today.
Have a few white Russians, lie back, and dream of America…
In the old days we had enough decency to say “Obama said such and such to the Russian premier.” We need to start having more respect for the people from other countries. Obama didn’t say this to “the Russians,” he said it to a representative of the Russian government. Have respect at least for their people.