‘We’re screwed’: Obama won’t concede Romney was right, writes off Russia as ‘regional power’

Obama won’t admit he was wrong on the surge, on the “stimulus”, on Obamacare, on the budget, on the economy, on Iraq, on Iran, on Afghanistan, on Libya, on Syria, on Egypt, on Benghazi, he damn sure isn’t going to say Romney, much less Palin, had the right attitude on Russia while he was misspelling “reset”.

@Kraken: It’s OK; Obama has a bunker he can run to.

@Kraken: To avoid being collateral damage when Putin wipes out those who might actually stand and resist.

Did anyone ask Obama why he is visiting Saudi Arabia?
His excuse of a reason, some conference, was cancelled.
Weird, just weird.
But as to Obama admitting being wrong about anything, I haven’t seen much humility from him.
Russia is only a regional power?
No.
Russia is a demographic basket case.
20 years from now, even if Putin forces Ethnic Russian women to make lots of babies, Russia will not be a Russian-speaking country!
All of Putin’s bluster about ”worrying” about the Russians in other places (ex-USSR) is simply excuse-making for annexing more Russian-speaking warm bodies.
But, demographic suicide is already past the point of no return in Russia.
See, 2.1 babies per woman equals Zero-Population.
Russia is at a devastating 1.61 children born per woman.
There is no turn-around from that.

Now, was Obama correct that all this means Russia is only a regional problem?
No.
almost every country with Russian population (including Ukraine) had treaties with the USA, Europe and or NATO that obligated one or more of those places should Russia pull such actions as Putin has pulled.
Obama would rather not live up to international agreements he did not personally sign.

But he is taking our troops and invading Uganda.

AFGHANISTAN IS WELCOMING RUSSIA, WHAT A TURN AROUND,
ALONG WITH CHINA SIDING WITH RUSSIA BUSINESSWIZE,
THEY TOO PLAYED OBAMA FOR A SUCKER,

@Kraken: Your list reminded me of the movie “The Mouse That Roared” c. 1959, after the tiny country has absconded with the ultimate bomb and the US has surrendered to it — there is a (I believe) BBC news broadcast where the announcer has a stack of papers and he is reading down through them, “This just in from ‘name of a country’ :” — and some comment re the international situation from some gov’t official of the country — goes through 4-5 and then “This just in from the US: NY has just beat Boston 5-3 in the 3rd game of the World Series” — then the announcer goes to another countries’ input re the international situation. Not much change in 55 years – eh?

@ilovebeeswarzone: No — the American people – such as they are — are the suckers — Obama is working for the internationalist revolution — he IS working FOR the Putins and ChiComs, NORKS and moo-slime Bro-Hood — the idea is to get the US outta the way while the rest of these named entities divide up the world! And do not fall for the middle East crapola — it is all one big blackmailing scam — ever wonder why none of the age old ‘conflicts’ over there ever get settled?

Budvarakbar
NOW THAT YOU MENTION IT, YES
HOW COME THE COFLICTS NEVER GET FIX FOR GOOD,
WELL IT’S LIKE AFGHANISTAN, HE MADE THE ROE, NOT TO KILL THE ENEMY,
IF THEY DROP THEIR WEAPON AFTER KILLING OUR WARRIORS,
AND PASS THE WORD BECAUSE THE ENMY START DOING IT,
AND COULD NOT DECIDE HOW TO WIN A WAR,
SO HE SAID A DATE OUT OF A BLUE SKY TO LEAVE,
AND KARZEI HAS ALREADY MADE A DEAL WITH RUSSIA,
AND TOLD OBAMA, GET OUT NOW, I DON’T WANT TO WAIT,
BYE

GREG
CHINA DID NOT INVADE ANOTHER COUNTRY WHICH WE ARE INTERESTED,
IN THEIR WELL BEING, BUT PUTIN DID,
ROMNEY HAD PREDICTED IT YEARS AGO,IN THE DEBATE
WHERE OBAMA GAVE HIM A STUPID REPLY,
HEY, CHINA WOULD NOT INVADE UNTIL WE PAY HIS MONEY,

@Greg:

Romney wasn’t right. As the 21st Century progresses, our greatest geopolitical adversary will most likely be China, not Russia.

It’s amusing how the Collective thinks that 6,000 years of documented human behavior will suddenly change merely because they think the phrase “21st Century” sounds all future-y and evolved and stuff. It’s beyond entertaining to watch the Collective Drones scurry about the internet as daily unfolding events disprove their assigned parrotings.

Obama knows this, although, unlike Romney, he’s smart enough not to make public pronouncements.

This of course is incorrect. President Obama isn’t at all smart, just highly indoctrinated. Sure he knows a lot of stuff, but the stuff he knows is made-up academic garbage. After all, he taught the Marx influenced ramblings of Alinsky as a professor, embrace of which is of course one of the primary signs of premiere dullardry. Let’s take a look at some of the dippy hippy choom-gang garbage coming out of the President’s mouth:

“We must commit perennially to peace, which binds us across oceans.”

The President, as with the rest of the Collective, is under the misguided impression that if they’re nice to Putin, and maybe gives him some stuff, and if they remain flexible, and they listen to him with wide-teary-eyed interest, that Putin will somehow become a friend and international partner. Shower them with unicorn glitter and rainbow flags and all will be well. This of course is laughable to grown adults who understand the world in which they live.

Putin views Obama as a patsy; and he’s correct. Patsy’s are never respected or befriended, they’re just taken advantage of. Putin is using Obama’s academic naivete to his obvious advantage.

After all, President Obama is the man who claimed to be concerned with a nuke being detonated in Manhattan, while simultaneously proposing to “slash the budget for the one initiatives designed to protect Manhattan from nuclear threats.” How bright can he be? He’s either woefully ignorant, or some sort of Manchurian candidate. I’m on the fence as to which.

Budvarakbar
DID YOU KNOW HE IS GOING THE VISIT ARABIA AFTER THIS,
BY

@Budvarakbar: #20

And the current trip of the FLOTUS may well be to give them the green light.

Michelle’s mom has gotten the red light from the hotel help.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2586367/Beijing-hotel-workers-fed-Obama-entourage-3400-square-foot-8-350-night-suite-inconveniencing-pretty-ladys-mother-barking-staff.html

@Kraken: #19

How bright can he be? He’s either woefully ignorant, or some sort of Manchurian candidate. I’m on the fence as to which.

This is what happens when obama doesn’t have his TOTUS in front of him. When he has to think on his own, this is the stuff that comes out. obama is a computer that has been programmed to do certain things. Since no computer can be programmed to handle all situations, obama sometimes has the, “DOES NOT COMPUTE” come up on his monitor, and he is on his own from there on. He doesn’t do very well on his own, does he?

It’s been another interesting day watching drones scurry about the internet in a futile attempt to retcon reality into fitting their adolescent rhetoric. Funny, funny stuff.

While our President is busy reasserting that “this is not another Cold War that we’re entering into” with a former KGB man who feels that the collapse of the Soviet Union was the “catastrophe of the century,” Putin continues to build up troops on the Ukraine border, a situation that I’m sure has Ukranians understandably worried, particularly now that it seems that Kiev is forcibly disarming its citizens in preparation for invasion. It’s beginning to make the Putin appeasers look more foolish than their Hitler appeaser predecessors. Maybe that’s why Americans disapprove of the President’s handling of the situation in Ukraine 57-40, even though he’s still apparently waiting for Al Qaeda to unclench their fist, in the 21st Century.

@Kraken, #27:

Maybe that’s why Americans disapprove of the President’s handling of the situation in Ukraine 57-40, even though he’s still apparently waiting for Al Qaeda to unclench their fist, in the 21st Century.

What should have been done differently? Are you suggesting that we should have gone to war with Russia?

You people are quick to criticize, but slow (as always) to state specifically what should have been done differently. Most likely because you realize you’d scare the bejesus out of all rational people who realize that Crimea really isn’t our problem.

I don”t remember seeing what i see today,
a mega snow storm where there are wind blowing ferociously from 3 different directions,
in the same time,
reminding me of the war of the WINDS, bringning snow on a whirlwind ,

@Greg: “What should have been done differently? Are you suggesting that we should have gone to war with Russia?” With a few exceptions, nothing can be done differently now; however, what should have changed should have changed 4 years ago. The ABM system, the apologies, the retreats, the over reliance on charisma (which isn’t even there), the red line, leading from behind, Benghazi… the list of ongoing mistakes can go on endlessly.

Currently what is being done wrong is that he and Kerry apparently cannot get synced up and say the same thing. Kerry says that NATO can depend on the US, Obama says we are chopping our military power. Further, while Putin builds force levels on the Ukraine border, Obama cannot seem to repeat enough that military options are off the table; that should have been his campaign slogan. Continuing to go forward with the military cuts tells Putin he has no concern about opposition from the US and, as such, from NATO or Europe for some time to come.

We can see that projecting weakness has got us to this point. Perhaps it would be fantastic to expect Obama to convincingly seem strong and determined, but he has to figure out how to do it. If it was possible to talk Putin out of aggression, Putin would have come before the UN with his grievances. Putin CANNOT be “talked” out of his aggression.

Do you seriously not want to go to war? You had better support at least acting like you are willing to kick someone’s ass.

@Bill Burris: #33

Do you seriously not want to go to war? You had better support at least acting like you are willing to kick someone’s ass.

As I have mentioned before, I am no expert on foreign affairs, but the world sat by while Italy started taking over countries, and it led to WW I. The world sat by while Germany started taking over countries, and it led to WW II. We also sold war goods to both Japan and Germany until we decided to get in the war. How many countries should we let Russia take over before we get involved?

If the world were a school, the USA should be like the teenage boy in a video who was being bullied by another teenage boy. The first boy kept backing away until the bully started hitting him. That is when the bully found out that the other kid knew martial arts, and took down the bully in a few seconds. The first kid didn’t want to flaunt his martial arts, but he wasn’t going to let the bully beat him up.

The USA should be like that boy in the sense that we don’t want to flaunt our military, but we should also want the world to know that we are the biggest and the baddest person in the school, but we want to live in peach, but if we are provoked, we will destroy you.

I’m watching Fox News as I typed the above, and they played obama’s speech warning Russia. Has anybody else noticed that there is NO EMOTION AT ALL in any of his threatening speeches? I have very seldom heard obama have any emotion in his voice. He sounds like a computer voice, and computer voices aren’t scary.

Try to imagine what it would sound like if obama said, “Putin, tear down this wall.”

@Smorgasbord: World War II was preceded by these exact same actions; they are so similar it is frightening. What is even more frightening is, apparently, I see it far sooner that Merkel, Obama, Kerry, Hollande or the media in the United States. Perhaps I should be President?

In 1938 we saw the exact same aggression for the exact same weak premise. Sadly, we saw the exact same reaction from western powers, hoping to appease an aggressor rather than confront him. England and France were in a much stronger position then to effectively stop Hitler than we are today to stop Putin, but we should at least be overtly acting like we are not going to tolerate a piece by piece disassembly of eastern Europe to effect a piece by piece reassembly of the Soviet Union. I hardly consider myself as the best and the brightest, but even I can see this coming.

I have 5 grandsons and 3 granddaughters; the last thing I want is for them to be sent to fight in an European land war, starved into submission by being isolated in the world markets or incinerated by a nuclear strike. I probably won’t see any of this in my lifetime, but unless we do something radically different from “reset”, it’s coming.

Bill Burris
yes very scary,
i think you’are one of the smart here, and i usly like to look for solutions,
when i read of it, but this one is beyong my think tank,,
i won”t give up on trying hope other like you do it too,
you have a good excuse to find it first,
BY THE WAY, i’m sure i heard OBAMA TALK ABOUT HAVING A KIND OF
MILITARY GAME MEETING WITH OTHER COUNTRIES AND IN UKRAINE WITH THEM,
but this one could make the bully want to play oponent,
and change the name of the games into more appropriate
name he would choose himself, that we all better be ready for everything,in case PUTIN WANT TO SHOW THEM ALL HIS
NUCLEOR COMPONANTS, i hear he is loaded in that,
bye

@Greg:

You people are quick to criticize, but slow (as always) to state specifically what should have been done differently. Most likely because you realize you�d scare the bejesus out of all rational people who realize that Crimea really isn�t our problem.

Reading the But-Bushing crowd accuse others of being quick to criticize is certainly chuckle worthy. But the reality is it takes more time to research a thoughtful alternative. Real world military strategy isn’t the table-top game of Supremacy that’s played in the teacher’s lounge. Knee jerking like the typical unthinking drone won’t produce any viable solutions, nor will the application of academic fantasy making, as is evidenced by the current administration.

Furthermore, it should be noted that it’s quite impossible for the average blog commenter to come up with an educated alternative, simply because we’re not privy to classified information that would be vital to such decision making. Now, this doesn’t play into the omniscient play-acting that drones like to engage in, but that’s reality anyway. Real thought requires time, not frantic emotive reaction.

What should have been done differently? Are you suggesting that we should have gone to war with Russia?

Despite not having all of the information necessary, there are still a number of actions that can be pointed to.

First of course is serious education reform. America’s education system needs to be entirely gutted. Public support will always be in the wrong place as long as we have activist professors wasting student’s time teaching them the imaginary virtues of brutal executioners like Che Guevarra, simply because they think the graphic art of his face looks cool hanging in their windowless academic office. If the general population has no clue what is going on in the world because their professors are wasting their time indoctrinating them with notions of white privilege and other social justice nonsense rather than real knowledge, then there isn’t much point in doing anything other than heading to the hills and hunkering down. Requiring professors to shower, shave, and dress like grown adults would be a good start. If we can get the electorate to vote wisely, that will solve many of the problems we face including international conflicts.

Along with this is the need to teach people not to receive their history and political education from movies, comedians, talk show hosts, and other entertainers.

Next, is wiping out elected officials who engage in the adolescent romanticism of socialism, and who think that international diplomacy is a Coca-Cola commercial. Most of these officials are hopelessly corrupt anyway. In fact, it’s getting hard to keep track of all the Democrats getting in trouble today.

We need voter integrity measures in place, so that Democrats are unable to lure hordes of migrating South Americans to the United States, with seductive promises of free stuff in exchange for votes. We also need a President who is as serious about guarding our own southern border, as the Mexican President is about guarding his own southern border to prevent the La Raza and Reconquista movements to this end. How can Putin take a world leader seriously, who isn’t even concerned with the security of his own border? He can’t.

We need to elect a serious President, as opposed to a community organizing celebrity. We need to place a higher value on experience, rather than the talent to cause audience members to weep and faint. We need a President who will take a serious tone with rivals and enemies, as opposed to communicating with them via pedantic starry-eyed prose in speeches written by half-baked liberal arts majors. We need a President who understands who our enemies are as 68% of Americans have now come to realize, instead of stupidly misperceiving private U.S. citizens at home as bigger threats. We need a President who leaves the Reset Buttons with the busy-body morons of corporate America. We need to rid ourselves of a President who refuses to believe that Russia is engaging in another extended stand off. We need a President who understands actual reality.

We need a President and Congress that will not abandon their Eastern European allies, and who understands that insipid platitudes about the 21st Century will not help them defend themselves. We need a President who understands that Europe hasn’t been spending on their own defense because they’ve been pissing their money away on social experimentation. We need a President that is willing to spend on defense, rather than Climate Change Musicals.

Now, once proper public servants are elected, they can begin to focus on international issues. To do this effectively, the President needs to surround himself with knowledgeable and experienced personnel. He needs to listen to military advisers with real world experience, as opposed to the academic activist nitwits he’s replacing them with. These are the people who are able to offer the strategic and tactical details you seek, not you nor I.

The bottom line here, is that the scenario which Ms. Palin predicted and the fringe left mocked as preposterous, is now about to happen. This alone clearly indicates that the Collective has absolutely no idea what it’s babbling about on any level. Drones need to occupy their mouths with their favorite bong and pass out while they leave international economic and military affairs to the adult professionals.

Am I suggesting that we should go to war with Russia? My friend, we are at war.

GEG
YES , KEEP IT TO YOURSELF,
WE DON’T NEED TO KNOW YOUR NEGATIVES SMEAR
ON MITT ROMNEY,
WE KNOW MUCH POSITIVE TRAITS ON HIM,
AND WE KNOW HE HAS TO MUCH CLASS TO GET TO YOUR LEVELS OF ATTACKS, AND ANYONE ELSE,
WE KNOW HE WOULD HAVE WIN IF THERE WHERE NOT FOR THE
CORRUPTION OF MANY DISHONEST PEOPLE LEAD BY DISHONEST LEADERS,
I’M NOT GOING TO WASTE MY TIME TO ELABORATE ON
THAT CORRUPTION,

@Greg:

The manner in which the opinions of drones shift depending on what argument they’re engaged in at any given moment, in the absence of solid talking point directives, is such a fascinating aspect of the Collective’s unstable psychopathology.

No, that isn’t my contention. Why would Vladimir Putin care what Mitt Romney thinks?

I don’t know. Weren’t you the one who stated:

How do you imagine Russia perceives the expansion of NATO? Albania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey… North Atlantic? WTF, indeed. There’s the clueless Mr. Romney, publicly proclaiming Russia to our most dangerous geopolitical adversary—one of a number of things that no one running for president should be publicly proclaiming, even if he or she is thinking it. The whole damn GOP engages their mouths before putting their brains in gear. Don’t they realize that people are listening beyond our own borders? That some people, like Vladimir Putin, can actually react to what he hears them saying?

So you tell me, brainiac. How can someone be “entitled to an opinion and entitled to express it”, while simultaneously being “out of line” for expressing it? lol

I mean, if we take your words seriously, shouldn’t Putin likewise be reacting to Hillary Clinton comparing him to Adolf Hitler, if he’s listening beyond his own border?

In that highly volatile situation, his politically motivated pronouncements might actually have adversely affected the course of events. It was at that point when I realized what his priorities revealed about him.

Really. So are you saying thatObama’s never made any politically motivated pronouncements whatsoever? Never?

And how could Romney’s “politically motivated pronouncements” have “adversely affected the course of events” if Vladimir Putin doesn’t “care what Mitt Romney thinks?”

If you can’t understand how these two situations differ, I’m not going to waste time trying to explain it to you.

I particularly enjoy how the drone states that he’s not going to waste his time trying to explain it to me, directly after he attempted to…er…explain it to me. Only college professors are capable of being this dumb.

Now Greg, I understand that lazy socialists want everyone else to do their work for them, but remember, it’s your job to effectively articulate your position, not mine.

Anyone who can’t discern the difference has no business occupying the Oval Office.

I’m not seeking the Oval Office.

Incidentally, if you’re in the mood, you can peruse post 41 at your leisure. You can blame Captcha for it not appearing fast enough to sate your anxiety.

Kraken
don’t go anywhere, we need more of that,
bye

@Kraken: Obviously you’ve got a lot of time on your hands.
My 2 cents. Obama should have bombed Assad into oblivion–Given Putin a “thanks but no thanks.” There would be no confrontation in The Ukraine.
Don’t get your continued fascination with that Australian boy band??