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Obama: Putin's So, So Weak
Putin: I Wouldn't Say Obama is Weak At All
You understand the dynamic here, right? The weakling who's getting pummeled has to puff himself up and insist that the bully that's beating the shit out of him is really the weak one, while he himself is the strong one.
Meanwhile, the bully, who is getting everything he wants from the weakling, wishes to assuage the weakling and tell him to keep on doing what he's doing. After all, if the Weakling is rolling over for you, you don't want to say anything that could inspire any manly resistance which might, possibly, be buried under thick fatty layers of cowardice and passivity. Steve Krofft got an earful of the Weakling's upside-down view of the universe, and, as Allahpundit says, "Kroft can hardly believe he’s hearing."Steve Kroft: A year ago when we did this interview, there was some saber-rattling between the United States and Russia on the Ukrainian border. Now it's also going on in Syria. You said a year ago that the United States-- America leads. We’re the indispensable nation. Mr. Putin seems to be challenging that leadership. President Barack Obama: In what way? Let-- let's think about this-- let-- let-- Steve Kroft: Well, he's moved troops into Syria, for one. He's got people on the ground. Two, the Russians are conducting military operations in the Middle East for the first time since World War II. President Barack Obama: So that's-- so that's-- Steve Kroft: bombing the people-- that we are supporting. President Barack Obama: So that's leading, Steve? Let me ask you this question. When I came into office-- Ukraine was governed by a corrupt ruler who was a stooge of Mr. Putin. Steve Kroft: Right, right, right. President Barack Obama: Syria was Russia’s only ally in the region. And today, rather than being able to count on their support and maintain the base they had in Syria, which they’ve had for a long time. Mr. Putin now is devoting- his own troops, his own military, just to barely hold together by a thread his sole ally. And in Ukraine-- Steve Kroft: He's challenging your leadership, Mr. President. HeVideo of the link above. Worth watching to see the Weakling sputter about how manly he is. A couple of weeks ago, Charlie Rose interviewed Vladimir Putin. Peggy Noonan digests it:
s challenging your leadership-- President Barack Obama: Well-- Steve, I got to tell you, if you think that running your economy into the ground and having to send troops in, in order to prop up your only ally is leadership, then we’ve got a different definition of leadership.
The guy who's winning the fight doesn't have to keep whining that he's winning the fight. You can tell from the blood on his knuckles and the blood on the Weakling's face. It's simply extraordinary how America has collapsed as any kind of plausible actor on the world stage, and how little remarked upon this is in America. Both our allies and enemies see that America has chosen to curl up in the fetal position and wait for death to take us. It will, of course, get worse. The damage wrought by Obama will haunt America for a century. Even if a President seeks to undo his shameful legacy, our would-be allies will always know America could elect another Weakling at any moment, and they will factor that into their calculations as to who to align with. Oh, Putin did take this dig at Obama, which he pretended was not a dig, just simple statement of fact. Actually, he's right; this is just a simple statement of fact:
Asked what he thinks of President Obama, he deflected--coolly. "I don't think I'm entitled to give any views regarding the president of the United States... Our relations are businesslike. I believe that’s quite sufficient to comply with our functions." Do Mr. Obama’s foreign policy actions "reflect a weakness"? "I don't think so at all," said Mr. Putin. "I don't think that’s the case and I don’t intend to get involved in a domestic American skirmish." One got the impression he wished it understood that he doesn’t outfox weaklings, he only beats champs.
[Putin said,] "I want you and your audience to finally realize that no one except for the Assad army is fighting ISIS and other terrorist groups now in Syria." U.S. efforts have been wanting: "It has to be said frankly this is a very low level of effectiveness. I'm not trying to be sarcastic here. I'm not trying to call someone out or to point fingers."See, Putin is weak because he commands effective military action that has real impact in geopolitical terms; Obama, on the other hand, is strong, because he snipes at and bitch-talks other people. Oh: And the actual big news from the first link is that Putin is bombing the hell out of the Free Syrian Army positions, thus freeing up Aleppo to be swarmed and captured... by ISIS. You know, the guys Obama thinks Putin is bombing.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: donna at October 09, 2015 04:24 PM (hUdMz)
The guy who's winning the fight doesn't have to keep whining that he's winning the fight. You can tell from the blood on his knuckles and the blood on the Weakling's face.
This does not explain the Donald.
Posted by: jwb7605 at October 09, 2015 04:25 PM (DofIg)
Posted by: shibumi, RIP USA at October 09, 2015 04:26 PM (JkjdY)
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 09, 2015 04:26 PM (uJS/X)
Good grief, it's not bad enough I can't stand hearing that clowns voice, now I can't stand even reading the words he uses.
Posted by: BurtTC at October 09, 2015 04:26 PM (TOk1P)
I know right now he's the one leading the retreat but we're only along for the ride because of how our government works.
And for now he has the power to do what he's doing and when he no longer has the power then we'll have someone else to represent us. Hopefully more accurately and more positively.
The reason it's being ignored is because there's not much we can do about it that we haven't already done and the others are either afraid or all for what he's doing.
That will change. We can recover from this.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at October 09, 2015 04:27 PM (Xo1Rt)
Sir Golfsalot is just flat out pathetic in that first box's dialogue with Kroft.
World class pussy...
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 09, 2015 04:27 PM (BK3ZS)
Is it just me, or while reading the words, can you just hear the sneering, snotty, whiny little boy tone?
Good grief, it's not bad enough I can't stand hearing that clowns voice, now I can't stand even reading the words he uses.
Posted by: BurtTC at October 09, 2015 04:26 PM (TOk1P)
THIS. Yes, I can actually hear his voice through typewritten words. Ugh.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 09, 2015 04:28 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Max Power at October 09, 2015 04:29 PM (q177U)
Posted by: Dang at October 09, 2015 04:29 PM (2oWD2)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 09, 2015 04:30 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Chase at October 09, 2015 04:30 PM (eHjNP)
Posted by: MTF at October 09, 2015 04:30 PM (TxJGV)
Liberals always want the US to be Canada. But Canada can be Canada because we are the US. If we are the Canada, who will be our US?
Posted by: blaster at October 09, 2015 04:30 PM (2Ocf1)
Posted by: Rule #2 at October 09, 2015 04:30 PM (E49m9)
He was the biggest pussy I've ever met in my life.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at October 09, 2015 04:32 PM (oKE6c)
Yeah. Obama's definition of leadership includes walking away from your allies. Running your economy into the ground is definitely part of his definition though.
Posted by: buzzion at October 09, 2015 04:32 PM (z/Ubi)
Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at October 09, 2015 04:32 PM (BZAd3)
The Chinese economy might take another plunge.
Obama's last year.
Based on these 3 factors, watch out for a Chinese move on Taiwan in Jan/Feb.
Not a 100% prediction...more of a "percentage chance went up a few points" thing.
Posted by: Harun at October 09, 2015 04:32 PM (UBBWX)
No wonder the left loves him so.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2015 04:32 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Prez'nit Shit Midas at October 09, 2015 04:33 PM (N6Gqp)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 09, 2015 04:33 PM (GFzi9)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at October 09, 2015 04:33 PM (LUgeY)
Posted by: dantesed at October 09, 2015 04:33 PM (88xKn)
Posted by: blaster at October 09, 2015 04:30 PM (2Ocf1)
Liberals never get this. Not even when you point out that the Canadian Army is smaller than the NYC police department do they take the point.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at October 09, 2015 04:33 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 09, 2015 04:33 PM (GFzi9)
Too bad they both can't lose.
Posted by: blaster at October 09, 2015 04:34 PM (2Ocf1)
Is it just me, or while reading the words, can you just hear the sneering, snotty, whiny little boy tone?
Not really, no. I hear the condescending, flaccid little men of the faculty lounge, sneering at those who do in the rel world, while knowing that their silly little fantasies of how perfectly things would run if they were in charge will never have to face reality. Except now, they are, and Barry doesn't know what to do.
He's completely out of ideas, so he falls back on what he knows.
Posted by: pep at October 09, 2015 04:34 PM (LAe3v)
Posted by: Prez'nit Shit Midas at October 09, 2015 04:34 PM (N6Gqp)
Our hero.
Posted by: Hank at October 09, 2015 04:35 PM (JyDJn)
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 09, 2015 04:35 PM (JO9+V)
Obama and what passes for his foreign policy advisors are so caught up in the notion of an international community and that pushing for national strength is just sooooo over that they are, literally and actually, incapable of comprehending that Putin, China, Japan, India, hell, everyone else in the world really and truly are acting in their own national interest before anything else.
Or tl;dr as Obama admitted, he believes his own bullshit.
Posted by: alexthechick - Yeah I give up at October 09, 2015 04:35 PM (mf5HN)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 09, 2015 04:36 PM (GFzi9)
Posted by: Pee Wee Obama at October 09, 2015 04:36 PM (9Fc79)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Staring at the Lake in the rain at October 09, 2015 04:36 PM (7rAXc)
Posted by: Prez'nit Shit Midas at October 09, 2015 04:36 PM (N6Gqp)
Posted by: Danube River Guide at October 09, 2015 04:37 PM (mcm0N)
Did they elect Carter ?
Did they elect Clinton - twice ?
Did they vote Gore to a statistical tie ?
Posted by: Irony at October 09, 2015 04:37 PM (/bNwY)
Posted by: donna at October 09, 2015 04:37 PM (hUdMz)
You're welcome.
Posted by: Red at October 09, 2015 04:37 PM (1DH1V)
Obama is the guy who shows up on the golf course all decked out in Callaway & Titleist, with $2K worth of kit in his bag, and then shoots 125. "man these greens are really playing fast today!" "I'd be able to concentrate if that foursome behind us didn't keep hitting into us."
Posted by: Sam In Va at October 09, 2015 04:37 PM (JsDSm)
Posted by: Methos at October 09, 2015 04:37 PM (ZbV+0)
And the comeback? I mean, how pitiful... "what's YOUR definition of leadership, Steve? Huh? Huh?"
You really get the impression that if Kroft - KROFT, of all people - stood up and got into Obama's face, Obama would cringe.
Wow...
Posted by: RobM1981 at October 09, 2015 04:38 PM (zurJC)
Posted by: Modern Man at October 09, 2015 04:38 PM (LAe3v)
Posted by: Danube River Guide at October 09, 2015 04:38 PM (mcm0N)
Posted by: maddogg at October 09, 2015 04:39 PM (xWW96)
Posted by: Prez'nit Shit Midas at October 09, 2015 04:39 PM (N6Gqp)
Posted by: blaster at October 09, 2015 04:39 PM (2Ocf1)
Posted by: Modern Man at October 09, 2015 04:38 PM
That's saying something coming from Modern Man....obamas even too much of a weakling for them...
Posted by: donna at October 09, 2015 04:39 PM (hUdMz)
A CIA agent that has been in "the shit" for two years is briefing the CIA and Pentagon bigwigs on how things are going.
He is asked by one at the table "How is our strategy going?", the agent replies "What strategy?". The agent then goes on to talk about how ISIS has a strategy and have had one since the 7th century. A world without infidels by any means necessary.
One wonders how many high intel briefings that Obama actually attends and understands. My guess is not many.
Posted by: Cheri at October 09, 2015 04:39 PM (R7Ty2)
Posted by: Grump928(c) at October 09, 2015 04:40 PM (evdj2)
Posted by: The GOPe at October 09, 2015 04:40 PM (cgxNI)
Posted by: Grump928(c) at October 09, 2015 04:41 PM (evdj2)
Posted by: The GOPe at October 09, 2015 04:40 PM
Not hard when you're perceptually in that bent over position...
Posted by: donna at October 09, 2015 04:41 PM (hUdMz)
Posted by: phoenixgirl, i was born a rebel at October 09, 2015 04:41 PM (0O7c5)
Posted by: Putin at October 09, 2015 04:41 PM (xWW96)
Posted by: Barack "Black Knight" Obama at October 09, 2015 04:42 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: Dante at October 09, 2015 04:42 PM (MhcoS)
Posted by: 22nd Century at October 09, 2015 04:42 PM (evdj2)
Posted by: donna at October 09, 2015 04:42 PM (hUdMz)
It's true, I heard it at a cocktail party once in 1993 and I see no reason to learn anything else.
XXOO
Baruck Obuma
PS just kidding, I don't give a shit, all I want to do is get as many mexicans and hondurans into America before I leave office because I hate white people. Well, white America. And white europe.
Posted by: joe-impeachin44 at October 09, 2015 04:42 PM (Ojdnl)
had one since the 7th century. A world without infidels by any means
necessary.
1. Technically that's a goal, not a strategy, but we don't seem to have one of those either.
2. Ace had a post on that yesterday (or sometime this week, it's all a blur).
Posted by: Methos at October 09, 2015 04:42 PM (ZbV+0)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 09, 2015 04:43 PM (u093l)
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you're crazy. he's the most conservative president we've ever had. we're so lucky he's been in charge instead of some christianist.
Posted by: Andrew Sullivan at October 09, 2015 04:43 PM (7Kbxu)
Gawd I wss hoping to be older before Reagan was proven to be right.
Posted by: Danube River Guide at October 09, 2015 04:43 PM (mcm0N)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 09, 2015 04:43 PM (GFzi9)
The Senate GOP is probably tempted to open hearings on the Syrian debacle but they should not do that! Let SCOAMF do his thing, and let Putin embarrass him. Don't get involved GOP- you can only screw it up.
Posted by: MTF at October 09, 2015 04:43 PM (TxJGV)
The Doom all runs together.
Posted by: Grump928(c) at October 09, 2015 04:43 PM (evdj2)
Our basis as a world power has been our superior population, our industrial output, our superior technology, and our atomic firepower.
In 1945 we put 9% of our population, 50% of our industry into the war effort, and destroyed whole cities until our enemies surrendered.
Where are we today? We will not smash cities. We will not create a military large enough to dominate Afghanistan. We will not preserve let alone harness our industrial base.
Obama's bad but he's not the cause of an American military strategy that made victory unlikely.
Now what good are our promises anywhere? Anybody stronger than the Taliban will bog us down, we swear.
Democrats used to complain that Bush made us hated. They're making us useless. And worse than useless, because to host Americans invites terrorism.
And there isn't political momentum to stop them. It was Republicans who wanted to dial down the War on Terror.
There is just no question of going back to 1945, and that means that the political system erected in 1945 is doomed. Nothing more will be done to stop it except to blame the other guy. Our own failings will be defended as being "reasonable" and "realistic".
Posted by: Chris Balsz at October 09, 2015 04:43 PM (EioIi)
Posted by: Barack Obama at October 09, 2015 04:43 PM (1DH1V)
Posted by: donna at October 09, 2015 04:45 PM (hUdMz)
Now why would I burn one of my own agents? Do I look like Hillary! to you?
Posted by: Vladi Poot at October 09, 2015 04:45 PM (1CroS)
Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at October 09, 2015 04:45 PM (+lsX1)
Too bad Putin is a David.
Posted by: The Great White Snark at October 09, 2015 04:45 PM (XUKZU)
/just the punchline
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at October 09, 2015 04:45 PM (LUgeY)
Hell, does America even have an ally in the region anymore, especially one that can stand on their own two feet, cause I'm not seeing it anywhere.
Posted by: Make America Great Again at October 09, 2015 04:45 PM (LXJ1e)
Posted by: MTF at October 09, 2015 04:46 PM (TxJGV)
At least it would keep the Russians and Isis busy for a while.
Of course... with Islamic radicals, Russians, and American liberals all together in one place it would be so tempting to put in practice the Ripley Theorem. "take off, nuke the site from orbit.... only way to be sure."
Posted by: Sam In Va at October 09, 2015 04:46 PM (JsDSm)
Posted by: Grump928(c) at October 09, 2015 04:46 PM (evdj2)
Posted by: Post - Millenial at October 09, 2015 04:46 PM (0dcbp)
Because we know more about the ISIS situation and where everthing is.
He is a Grand Master Troll.
Posted by: Bandersnatch, Opus/Bill the Cat 2016 at October 09, 2015 04:46 PM (JtwS4)
Posted by: MTF at October 09, 2015 04:46 PM (TxJGV)
Run brave Sir obama!
Posted by: donna at October 09, 2015 04:46 PM (hUdMz)
Posted by: Barry at October 09, 2015 04:47 PM (c7vUv)
Too bad Putin is a David.
Posted by: The Great White Snark at October 09, 2015 04:45 PM (XUKZU)
Don't insult Goliath like that, he wasn't a pussy. And he had Sons. You can't say either about da Zero
Posted by: maddogg at October 09, 2015 04:47 PM (xWW96)
Posted by: dantesed at October 09, 2015 04:47 PM (88xKn)
Posted by: phoenixgirl, i was born a rebel at October 09, 2015 04:47 PM (0O7c5)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at October 09, 2015 04:47 PM (9Fc79)
Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2015 04:47 PM (r65B3)
So true. So incontrovertibly true.
And this is by design by SCoaMF. SCoaMF just doesn't want the public to realize that he lacks the 'nads to change the dynamic even if he wanted.
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at October 09, 2015 04:48 PM (1CroS)
Sheesh.
Although missile defense won't protect us from....small dirty ISIS bombs so the liberals won that argument by letting ISIS fester and spread, while passing out glow sticks for everyone!
It's a Rave Party in the Middle East!
Posted by: Danube River Guide at October 09, 2015 04:49 PM (mcm0N)
Nations do NOT trust Obama to keep his word.
Nations make alliances with people they trust.
End of story
Posted by: Nip Sip at October 09, 2015 04:49 PM (jJRIy)
__________________________
The MSM won't remark on it because then they'd have to explain to the LIV's that it's all the fault of their precious chocolate god; the same lightworker who promised to "restore America's standing in the world" has instead destroyed it, and made the world a far more dangerous place in the process, for generations to come.
It's like that Czech guy (supposedly) said in 2008: America could probably survive having a dangerous fool like Barack Obama as her president, but it's very unlikely that she can survive having tens of millions of ignorant and stupid voters who would willingly choose such a dangerous fool as their leader.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at October 09, 2015 04:49 PM (a31sM)
These are the same reasons I love Trump.
Posted by: Hayfield Volkovski at October 09, 2015 04:50 PM (7shwm)
Obama's leadership: not sure what you want, but let's talk about it.
Posted by: Make America Great Again at October 09, 2015 04:50 PM (LXJ1e)
Posted by: Sir Golfs-a-Lot at October 09, 2015 04:50 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: Injuin Blackfoot Barry, that eats dog at October 09, 2015 04:51 PM (jJRIy)
Yeah, but the rest of the world wanted TFG instead of the cowboy Bush. They even contributed to his campaign.
I sure hope they're happy.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at October 09, 2015 04:51 PM (LUgeY)
Posted by: bjk at October 09, 2015 04:51 PM (x2rNW)
Civilization is in free-fall. We are in the middle of the Collapse of Society.
Perhaps it's time to simply replace the Ace of Spades/pirate logo with a permanent flaming skull.
Alternately, each post post have a flaming-skull rating of between 1 and 5 flaming skulls, depending on its severity, so that EVERY post would have at a minimum one flaming skull, ranging up toe five flaming skulls for head-explosion-level stuff.
Is it that bad? Yes, it is that bad.
Posted by: zombie at October 09, 2015 04:51 PM (jBuUi)
Think about it, because you know John Kerry didn't.
Posted by: Danube River Guide at October 09, 2015 04:51 PM (mcm0N)
Posted by: Emperor Clusterfuck I at October 09, 2015 04:52 PM (YFFpo)
I am sure that when the history of my reign...sorry Presidency is rewritten, you will all see what an outstanding job I have done!
Posted by: King Barky 1st at October 09, 2015 04:52 PM (16OL0)
These are the same reasons I love Trump.
Posted by: Hayfield Volkovski at October 09, 2015 04:50 PM (7shwm)
Putin also loves "eminent domain"
Posted by: Nip Sip at October 09, 2015 04:52 PM (jJRIy)
Posted by: dantesed at October 09, 2015 04:53 PM (88xKn)
Like the 4 scoldy ladies.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at October 09, 2015 04:53 PM (9Fc79)
Yet 52% of this country voted for that clown twice.
Posted by: Fritz at October 09, 2015 04:53 PM (3tjn4)
No backsies.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at October 09, 2015 04:53 PM (LWu6U)
Posted by: dantesed
Barry rides something else...but he still wears his helmet.
Posted by: Reggie Love at October 09, 2015 04:53 PM (awspb)
Tried to link to the source but I keep getting 500 internal server errors. Don't know if it's funny text or what.
"In The Nation one month later, the novelist and journalist Jose Yglesias wrote about Guevara's death. (The blogger Matt Yglesias, currently of Vox, is his grandon.)"
As Marge Schott once said, "Well there you go."
Posted by: Emile Antoon Khadaji at October 09, 2015 04:54 PM (Nj2wY)
Posted by: TFG at October 09, 2015 04:54 PM (QM5S2)
Then again, I'm not sure those values define the America of 2015.
Posted by: chiefjaybob at October 09, 2015 04:54 PM (3HaUs)
Posted by: vlad, making air quotes at October 09, 2015 04:54 PM (//bLW)
Posted by: Danube River Guide at October 09, 2015 04:55 PM (mcm0N)
Posted by: Nip Sip at October 09, 2015 04:52 PM (jJRIy)
*****
FFS, you're as bad as Prescient, except with TDS. Give it a fcuking rest.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at October 09, 2015 04:55 PM (TxjYj)
Seriously? Even if he attended every single one, what good does it do when the idiots at the top have pre-decided that the truth about what's going on over there is too much for the Preezy to handle, doesn't fit with how he wants Islam and ?Muslims to be perceived, and would make the admin look bad so they just filter out reality for telling him what he wants to hear?
It does not good at all. Ace is right. This narcissistic piece of shit has ruined for at least a good century. We will be lucky to escape war with Russia and if we don't it will be the fault of this president. Of course, Odipshit won't be in office when it starts, but it's basically inevitable now given all the idiot crap he's gotten us into.
Posted by: Mandy P., lurking lurker who lurks at October 09, 2015 04:55 PM (KkVB6)
Why has oil and gas gone down? USA fracking, which Obama has opposed on every front. Won't allow it on Federal lands.
Without it's military, Russia is a third world country, it's GDP is the same as CA's.
Think about that.
Posted by: Nip Sip at October 09, 2015 04:56 PM (jJRIy)
Posted by: GOP for 16 years at October 09, 2015 04:56 PM (0dcbp)
Posted by: Hayfield Volkovski at October 09, 2015 04:57 PM (7shwm)
FFS, you're as bad as Prescient, except with TDS. Give it a fcuking rest.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at October 09, 2015 04:55 PM (TxjYj)
I thought it was a good joke, but your point is well taken.
Posted by: Nip Sip at October 09, 2015 04:57 PM (jJRIy)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at October 09, 2015 04:57 PM (TxjYj)
No backsies."
Smart. Diplomacy.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 09, 2015 04:58 PM (LA7Cm)
TFG, laughing: "While you weren't looking, I stepped out of the circle three times! Ha ha ha!"
/just the punchline
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at October 09, 2015 04:45 PM (LUgeY)
I just noticed your hash.
Posted by: kathysaysso at October 09, 2015 04:59 PM (fMQoG)
Then again, I'm not sure those values define the America of 2015.
Posted by: chiefjaybob at October 09, 2015 04:54 PM (3HaUs)
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Since McGovern's loss in 1968, its been an almost 8 year cycle. Republican - strong foreign policy, Democrat - roll over foreign policy. Like clockwork.
Obama is just an order of magnitude worse than Clinton or Carter.
The posters are right, a country would have to be foolish to think America has its back.
Posted by: Make America Great Again at October 09, 2015 04:59 PM (LXJ1e)
Posted by: Typo dynamofo at October 09, 2015 05:00 PM (cHs6O)
Canada... once we get our nuclear weapons programme off the ground that I want started once P.M. Harper gets his second majority government after the upcoming federal election.
Posted by: andycanuck at October 09, 2015 05:00 PM (//bLW)
Posted by: Max Rockatansky at October 09, 2015 05:02 PM (NqZ29)
My paternal grandfather lost the family farm when the state built a freeway across it. The state build an exit ramp right through where the house and barn stood.
The youngest son took the money and turned it into a multimillion dollar agribusiness farming more than 3,000 acres.
Whenever I went through there I used to stop on the ramp and remember my visits to the farm, and look around the area to realize that everything I could see from the ramp to the horizon was the family farm.
Posted by: Hayfield Volkovski at October 09, 2015 05:02 PM (7shwm)
Posted by: GBruno at October 09, 2015 05:02 PM (u49WF)
Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2015 05:03 PM (r65B3)
Posted by: Nip Sip at October 09, 2015 05:03 PM (jJRIy)
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at October 09, 2015 05:04 PM (oVJmc)
"In what way? Let-- let's think about this-- let-- let--"
"So that's-- so that's--"
.................................
S stands for Stuttering
C stands for Cluster....
etc., etc.
Posted by: wth at October 09, 2015 05:04 PM (wAQA5)
No it's not. Obama wants this. The end of American exceptionalism.
Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at October 09, 2015 05:04 PM (E5UB0)
And as incompetent as Obama has been on Syria, I'll still take his policy over that of the neocon lunatics like Rubio who literally want to shoot down Russian planes and risk WWIII in order to protect jihadists.
Posted by: Jon at October 09, 2015 05:04 PM (HA+/6)
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Yeah, who wants somebody who tells the truth, keeps his word, and holds up his end?
Posted by: The Great White Snark at October 09, 2015 05:05 PM (XUKZU)
Posted by: Emmett Milbarge at October 09, 2015 05:05 PM (nFdGS)
Posted by: Fritz at October 09, 2015 05:05 PM (3tjn4)
FDR could have saved a lot of lives if he acted sooner and invested more realisticly in defense--those things go hand in hand and had a synergistic effect on slowing our response.
FDR bought votes--sound familiar?
He was almost the definition of Tammany Hall politician.
And yes history does repeat itself the Devil just changes the details (it's called variables).
Posted by: Danube River Guide at October 09, 2015 05:05 PM (mcm0N)
Oh so un-PC
Posted by: wooga at October 09, 2015 05:05 PM (nYAaL)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, Model Citizen at October 09, 2015 05:06 PM (Omh3b)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 09, 2015 05:06 PM (LA7Cm)
Posted by: Mr.KnowItAll at October 09, 2015 05:07 PM (uJK1E)
Why are they yelling at you now Nipster?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, Model Citizen at October 09, 2015 05:06 PM (Omh3b)
Just an honest mistake. No foul no harm.
Posted by: Nip Sip at October 09, 2015 05:07 PM (jJRIy)
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Ukrainians will feel exactly the same, once Russia finishes building out its dream construction of endless dive bars, tattoo parlors, potholed streets and police stations filled with zombie-like bedraggled prisoners-of-the-state in Eastern Ukraine.
Posted by: MTF at October 09, 2015 05:07 PM (TxJGV)
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only a matter of time before Obama would give it to him
Posted by: grammie winger, Isa al-Masih for muslims too at October 09, 2015 05:08 PM (dFi94)
Posted by: Mortimer at October 09, 2015 05:08 PM (0dcbp)
Without so much as a stutter or blink.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 09, 2015 05:08 PM (LA7Cm)
Posted by: Danube River Guide at October 09, 2015 05:08 PM (mcm0N)
Posted by: MTF at October 09, 2015 05:09 PM (TxJGV)
Putin: I Wouldn't Say Obama is Weak At All
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I love this because it's similar, yet different to what we see in the media.
Minorities are treated with kid gloves, because white liberals in the media feel a guilt-ridden, chivalrous, possibly racist duty to do so.
But some of them, the losers, like BLM do not perceive that it's chivalry and think they really are aggrieved, or superior, or cooler in some way, since they can jump or whatever, and Caucasians can't.
Putin is doing the same thing, flattering the vanity of the idiot Obama, but in order to dupe him. And Obama's brain is so marinated in PC grievance politics that he is probably incapable of perceiving it.
Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at October 09, 2015 05:09 PM (E5UB0)
Posted by: MTF at October 09, 2015 05:07 PM (TxJGV)
If you are going to shoot....shoot....don't talk
Posted by: Tucco at October 09, 2015 05:09 PM (7shwm)
At any rate, for those unfamiliar with this novel the antagonst is Henleigh Grandcourt, a self involved selfish, emotionally sadistic man who has a sneering, cold contempt for those he considers below his touch, and his contempt can come for any numbers of reasons-people are not attractive enough, they aren't wealthy enough, they come from the wrong social class or they simply annoy him and refuse to buckle immediately to his wishes.The editor for the novel-Graham Handley-refers to Grandcourt's "weighted projection of the oppressive power of silence." If he knows people want him to do something he sometimes refuses to do so because he wants to annoy them. However, he dislikes confrontation. He puts decision from him until he is forced to take it. He thinks he is in charge but he isn't. He has "an indolent casualness" and an "inherent ennui" which find him unequal to ordinary human demands."
Having read this novel many times, I have been recently struck by how much Grandcourt reminds me of Obama.
Sorry for the literary reference but it did seem to fit the topic,
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 09, 2015 05:09 PM (GERXL)
Posted by: eleven at October 09, 2015 05:09 PM (rjtGa)
Posted by: Doctor Fish at October 09, 2015 05:10 PM (OiFtZ)
Posted by: wooga
Yup, Longshanks defenestrates the poof then slaps his nancy son around. Couldn't get away with that these days.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic at October 09, 2015 05:10 PM (awspb)
Yes. They love to pick on people smaller than them.
But when you're the smaller guy? Well, they're actually quite strong.
Posted by: Warden at October 09, 2015 05:10 PM (wHAYQ)
Not a 100% prediction...more of a "percentage chance went up a few points" thing.
Posted by: Harun at October 09, 2015 04:32 PM (UBBWX)
No move on Taiwan. But I fully expect them to try and sink a US ship or even a carrier before the end of this fucker's term.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at October 09, 2015 05:10 PM (fC9RO)
Why are they yelling at you now Nipster?
Ask buzzion.
Posted by: Mortimer at October 09, 2015 05:08 PM (0dcbp)
Dead guys don't talk.
Posted by: Nip Sip at October 09, 2015 05:10 PM (jJRIy)
Posted by: eleven at October 09, 2015 05:10 PM (rjtGa)
Posted by: Max Rockatansky at October 09, 2015 05:11 PM (NqZ29)
134 the world wanted TFG instead of the cowboy Bush.
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Yeah, who wants somebody who tells the truth, keeps his word, and holds up his end?
Posted by: The Great White Snark at October 09, 2015 05:05 PM (XUKZU)
These nations were jealous of Americas strength & position. Obama has created a vacuum, nature hates a vacuum. I don't see Russia leaving anytime soon.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, Model Citizen at October 09, 2015 05:11 PM (s0Kry)
plausible actor on the world stage, and how little remarked upon this is
in America."
Where my check at?
Posted by: Low INfo Voter at October 09, 2015 05:11 PM (cHuNI)
And the actual big news from the first link is that Putin is bombing
the hell out of the Free Syrian Army positions, thus freeing up Aleppo
to be swarmed and captured... by ISIS.
Drilling down links:
"according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights"*
*en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Observatory_for_Human_Rights
McCain's friends. Take with a carton of Morton's.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at October 09, 2015 05:11 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: eleven at October 09, 2015 05:12 PM (rjtGa)
Posted by: The Great White Snark at October 09, 2015 05:12 PM (XUKZU)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, Model Citizen at October 09, 2015 05:11 PM (s0Kry)
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I don't see Russia leaving at all.
Posted by: grammie winger, Isa al-Masih for muslims too at October 09, 2015 05:13 PM (dFi94)
Posted by: bananaDream at October 09, 2015 05:13 PM (vLk7c)
Posted by: eleven at October 09, 2015 05:13 PM (rjtGa)
Only a matter of time before Putin wants Alaska back.
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They could call it Obama's Folly.
Posted by: The Great White Snark at October 09, 2015 05:12 PM (XUKZU)
Don't laugh. Putin has already violated the Arctic treaty and attempted to stake out sea/land not his.
Posted by: Nip Sip at October 09, 2015 05:14 PM (jJRIy)
Posted by: eleven at October 09, 2015 05:14 PM (rjtGa)
Linbergh ou est votre ligne rouge?
Ya I know, clean togas are going to be yours.
Je dois partir.
You're good because the genocide will not be televised when a Democrat is President.
And when er do have to go--you'll be sitting on your couch tsk, tsking at your Skinner Box.
Posted by: Danube River Guide at October 09, 2015 05:15 PM (mcm0N)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 09, 2015 05:15 PM (GERXL)
Posted by: Tucco, enjoying his bath at October 09, 2015 05:15 PM (7shwm)
The weakest sort of our allies nevertheless continue to ask for, and get, "security guarantees" from Uncle Sugar. Guarantees of a sort eventually likely to see America get sucked into a regional shooting war.
One which, especially if it's in the South China Sea, we are going to lose.
Posted by: torquewrench at October 09, 2015 05:15 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 09, 2015 05:15 PM (PMlgt)
Posted by: maddogg at October 09, 2015 05:16 PM (xWW96)
Posted by: Nip Sip at October 09, 2015 05:16 PM (jJRIy)
Without it's military, Russia is a third world country, it's GDP is the same as CA's.
Think about that.
Posted by: Nip Sip at October 09, 2015 04:56 PM (jJRIy)
Actually while oil and gas account for about half of Russia's tax revenue, they are only about 20% of GDP.
And Russia is not a third world country. Even going by exchange rates, it's now a middle-income country with the world's 10th largest GDP (when Putin look over in 2000, it had the world's 23rd largest GDP, smaller than Switzerland). And adjusted for purchasing power parity, Russia's GDP just passed Germany and is now the world's 5th largest.
Posted by: Jon at October 09, 2015 05:16 PM (HA+/6)
Pantywaist: If that's your definition of leadership, then we've got a different defintion of leadership.
Kroft: I wasn't asking about Putin's leadership, jackass.
Posted by: melanerpes at October 09, 2015 05:16 PM (6sjBD)
Posted by: Nip Sip at October 09, 2015 05:16 PM (jJRIy)
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KGB guys got nuthin' on Community Organizer guys.
Posted by: grammie winger, Isa al-Masih for muslims too at October 09, 2015 05:17 PM (dFi94)
Posted by: The Great White Snark at October 09, 2015 05:17 PM (XUKZU)
Never interrupt your enemy when he is emasculating his nation.
Mebbe.
Posted by: eleven at October 09, 2015 05:17 PM (rjtGa)
Posted by: Vlad at October 09, 2015 05:18 PM (wAQA5)
Posted by: eleven at October 09, 2015 05:18 PM (rjtGa)
Posted by: Sun Tzu at October 09, 2015 05:18 PM (mcm0N)
I probably thinks he was clever and stuff.
All it shows his fear for his image.
He doesn't understand what his image truly is.
He's below where Jimmy Carter was after the rabbit attack.
We all know it. The press knows it but tries to hide it.
He's a gutless murder. Unable to admit publicly what a tool he is.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at October 09, 2015 05:18 PM (Xo1Rt)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 09, 2015 05:15 PM (PMlgt)
Agree to buy a backhoe for your enemy who is using only a shovel to dig his hole.
Posted by: Max Rockatansky at October 09, 2015 05:19 PM (NqZ29)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic at October 09, 2015 05:19 PM (awspb)
I think Putin would like to be a bully ... but he just hasn't had to. Everything's been handed to him before he could even threaten to lift a finger.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 09, 2015 05:19 PM (zc3Db)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at October 09, 2015 05:19 PM (Xo1Rt)
Posted by: maddogg at October 09, 2015 05:19 PM (xWW96)
Obama: Tell Vlad, that I will have more flexibility after the elections.
Toady: D'ah I will communicate this to Vladimir.
Posted by: simplemind at October 09, 2015 05:20 PM (xVRrG)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, Model Citizen at October 09, 2015 05:20 PM (8PcKC)
Posted by: goon at October 09, 2015 05:21 PM (gy5kE)
You know what I hate? I hate America being laughed at by Russia. I hate America being snickered at by the Chinese. I hate America being seen as a failing nation. I hate America being turned into a frikkin' joke.
Posted by: grammie winger, Isa al-Masih for muslims too at October 09, 2015 05:21 PM (dFi94)
Affirmative action has consequences. And the MSM is fully responsible for this idiot being where he is.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at October 09, 2015 05:21 PM (ij7E3)
But this is exactly what Barky's voters elected him for - he was the tool of their societal suicide; Suicide By Indonesian.
The Vichy GOP wouldn't say anything about this because then they might feel compelled to actually do their Constitutional job and move to take this America-hating traitor out of the White House. And that would be so ... RAAAAACISTTTT!!
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 09, 2015 05:22 PM (zc3Db)
Posted by: olddog in mo at October 09, 2015 05:22 PM (LyzbV)
by exchange rates, it's now a middle-income country with the world's
10th largest GDP (when Putin look over in 2000, it had the world's 23rd
largest GDP, smaller than Switzerland). And adjusted for purchasing
power parity, Russia's GDP just passed Germany and is now the world's
5th largest.
Posted by: Jon at October 09, 2015 05:16 PM (HA+/6)
We are reading different stats. Russian GDP little over $2 Trillion, same as CA. Germany? $3.9 Trillion, twice Russia.
Have no idea where you are getting your numbers, Russian TV? Adjusting for purchasing parity? That's a joke right. How you do that?
You talking about the old Big Mac purchasing index?
Posted by: Nip Sip at October 09, 2015 05:22 PM (jJRIy)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at October 09, 2015 05:22 PM (Xo1Rt)
Posted by: Stuff Confucius Never Actually Said, But Probably Thought About, vol. 3 at October 09, 2015 05:22 PM (N6Gqp)
41 The damage wrought by Obama will haunt America for a century.
Ace, I love your optimism.
Threadwinner.
Posted by: simplemind at October 09, 2015 05:23 PM (xVRrG)
Posted by: eleven at October 09, 2015 05:23 PM (rjtGa)
Obama does have a point about Russia's economy, the reason it's in the tank is over half it's GDP is from oil and gas. Think about that.
Posted by: Nip Sip
Since the bi-partisan party has put the zone on removing the US NatGas export ban in order to depress prices for their donors in the US, Russia gets a free run in their hard currency European market.
So, if Obama doesn't like it, perhaps he and his Republican allies would like to do something about it? Beside whine, that is.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at October 09, 2015 05:23 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: goon
Also, young Barry was wearing a Young Pioneers' uniform, so it accurately depicted his childhood.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic at October 09, 2015 05:23 PM (awspb)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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Read it years ago, and hardly remember anything about it, but there is a big difference with Obama if Grandcourt had any positive qualities that caused him to become arrogant. The horrible thing about Obama is that he has no positive qualities, yet manages to be a pathological narcissist.
And the one thing I remember about that novel (IIRC) that I disliked, was that Deronda converted to Judaism at the end merely because he discovered that he was of Jewish ancestry. But that is irrational. Surely one should adopt a religion because you think it's true.
Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at October 09, 2015 05:23 PM (E5UB0)
One must sourly reflect that if it had instead been Obama attacked by, and fleeing from a rabbit, we would never have learned about it.
The press corpse would have sat on such a thing just as tightly as they've sat on material like the Rashid Khalidi dinner tape.
Posted by: torquewrench at October 09, 2015 05:24 PM (noWW6)
But...but...
There goes my Aleppo Soap.
Now it's personal, bitchez!
Now. It's. Personal.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 09, 2015 05:24 PM (0cMkb)
He was elected fair and square. (for a certain value of fair and square.)
We'll have to listen to the laughter cause it's well deserved and remember to never let this happen again.
The penalties are just too high for electing anyone who doesn't love this country and never did.
It it takes electing someone who's bad but at least not anti American then so be it.
Never again.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at October 09, 2015 05:25 PM (Xo1Rt)
Posted by: Sun Tzu at October 09, 2015 05:26 PM (mcm0N)
Posted by: An Observation at October 09, 2015 05:26 PM (j6ras)
Ace, I love your optimism.
Threadwinner.
Posted by: simplemind
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Nah. Anyone capable of remembering history and thinking deeply enough to be "haunted" will be done away with, and the world will consist of mindless serfs and oligarchs. So the damage Obama is doing will preclude the possibility of any "haunting".
Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at October 09, 2015 05:26 PM (E5UB0)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, Model Citizen at October 09, 2015 05:26 PM (2zd9l)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at October 09, 2015 05:18 PM (Xo1Rt)
Well .... publicly jerking off a salmon and having him spew all over you (though the video has been pulled from youtube!) is about as low as you can go.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 09, 2015 05:26 PM (zc3Db)
Posted by: goon at October 09, 2015 05:27 PM (gy5kE)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2015 05:27 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: eleven at October 09, 2015 05:27 PM (rjtGa)
Posted by: Jay Guevara
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Probably relied on Mother Jones for the really manly stuff.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2015 05:28 PM (9mTYi)
Obama? No, no. He may not help evenwith the latrines, unless closely supervised.
Posted by: Sun Tzu at October 09, 2015 05:28 PM (wAQA5)
Posted by: Newsroom Chief of Staff at October 09, 2015 05:28 PM (+k9Gm)
I think Putin would like to be a bully ... but he just hasn't had to. Everything's been handed to him before he could even threaten to lift a finger.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair
Bullshit.
Putin turned off the gas supplies to Germany and others in order to pressure the US.
It's one of the first things Oblamo fucked up.
Putin is an unreconstructed fascist. Period.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 09, 2015 05:29 PM (JmGFJ)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 09, 2015 05:15 PM (PMlgt)
To not interrupt him.
Posted by: buzzion at October 09, 2015 05:29 PM (z/Ubi)
From the mightiest, free-est, most prosperous nation on Earth, to a-
Confederation of Little Bitches(TM)
in less than 70 years.
And the only thing sadder than the Little Bitches (TM) that pass for men and women in colleges around the country-
is the honor-destroying Little Bitch in the Whitehouse.
And the only thing sadder than him are-
the Littlest Bitches(TM) Boehner and McConnell and their coterie of
GOPe Micro Bitches(TM).
Pitiful.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 09, 2015 05:30 PM (0cMkb)
The takeaway quote was that Putin was playing checkers, not chess.
Anyone care to imagine what the results would be of Prince Chooming actually attempting a chess game against Putin, or practically any adult Russian who wasn't blind drunk? They are DAMNED GOOD players. It's part of their cultural fabric from a very early age.
Posted by: torquewrench at October 09, 2015 05:30 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at October 09, 2015 05:31 PM (EiqjV)
Barry: "Putin is punching above his weight."
Vlad: "Barry needs gain weight. He dying of the ayds or what?"
Posted by: wth at October 09, 2015 05:31 PM (wAQA5)
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 09, 2015 05:31 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: Stuff
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Proclaim this among the nations:
Prepare for war!
Rouse the warriors!
Let all the fighting men draw near and attack.
10 Beat your plowshares into swords
and your pruning hooks into spears.
Let the weakling say,
“I am strong!”
Posted by: Joel 3:9-11 at October 09, 2015 05:32 PM (9mTYi)
Some of the 'orbits' the near earth asteroids take look like the pinball in a pinball machine as they are deflected by one gravity well after another.
Posted by: Tucco, enjoying his bath at October 09, 2015 05:32 PM (7shwm)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf-_230SjbM
Better than that Ultraman crud in the sidebar.
Posted by: First-Rate Political Hack at October 09, 2015 05:32 PM (tgL17)
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at October 09, 2015 05:32 PM (EIFYf)
I downloaded AdBlock browser, but so far this thing is annoying.
Posted by: Blano at October 09, 2015 05:32 PM (LbDXZ)
Which is still a winning hand when your opponent is playing with himself.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2015 05:32 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2015 05:32 PM (9mTYi)
Who runs EU BarterTown?
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 09, 2015 05:33 PM (JO9+V)
really threaten anything as regards missile defense in Poland. Putin
was just saying the same crap he'd been saying the whole time and Barky
unilaterally decided to stab Poland in the back"
I recall a videotaped address by Zer-O back during the 2008 primaries, shown at the annual dinner of a peacenik nuclear disarmament group. In which he promised them that if elected, he was going to shitcan all U.S. ballistic missile defense efforts.
Posted by: torquewrench at October 09, 2015 05:34 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein
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It's like, Obama is one of us.
Posted by: Pussy Riot at October 09, 2015 05:34 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Sun Tzu at October 09, 2015 05:35 PM (mcm0N)
Its that he is so inept that he does nothing but leave Chaos in his wake.
He has helped to overthrow more than one UN member State... but has never had a plan to leave any cohesive government in its place...
Which is the hard part...
And he has been breaking the UN Treaty, and US Law, doing it.
He has illegally shipped arms all over creation... not knowing where they would end up...
He has trained and supplied insurgents...
And he has used US Forces to bomb various countries Governments... without either a declaration of war, UN Security council resolution... or any real Congressional Cover...
We no longer have any moral high ground to complain about OTHER countries breaking treaties... or doing illegal acts...
Posted by: BB Wolf at October 09, 2015 05:35 PM (qh617)
Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at October 09, 2015 05:35 PM (E5UB0)
Posted by: Yo! at October 09, 2015 05:35 PM (GwIKd)
really threaten anything as regards missile defense in Poland. Putin
was just saying the same crap he'd been saying the whole time and Barky
unilaterally decided to stab Poland in the back"
Actually, Obama traded the missile defense in Poland in exchange for Putin agreeing not to provide missile defense to Iran and uphold the sanctions. Then after the election he got more flexibility.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2015 05:35 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, Model Citizen at October 09, 2015 05:35 PM (UiGnh)
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at October 09, 2015 05:36 PM (u5gzz)
You know your nation has hit rock bottom when your own president is so evil and stupid you can't even root for him anymore.
Well bad news. This aint rock bottom.
Its going to get a lot worse before it gets any better at all.
Posted by: simplemind at October 09, 2015 05:36 PM (xVRrG)
Posted by: Putin at October 09, 2015 05:37 PM (JO9+V)
Have no idea where you are getting your numbers, Russian TV? Adjusting for purchasing parity? That's a joke right. How you do that?
You talking about the old Big Mac purchasing index?
Posted by: Nip Sip at October 09, 2015 05:22 PM (jJRIy)
The World Bank, IMF, and CIA all calculate both nominal and PPP-adjusted GDP numbers (until a few years ago, the CIA World Factbook only gave the PPP numbers).
The World Bank has Russia's 2014 GDP (PPP) slighly larger than Germany's ($3.74 trillion vs. $3.69 trillion) and ranked #5. The IMF and CIA World Factbook still have Germany slightly ahead and Russia ranked #6.
Posted by: Jon at October 09, 2015 05:37 PM (HA+/6)
Posted by: Caitlyn
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The Office has been so shamed, and so sullied (physically in the case of Clinton) by Carter, Clinton, and Obama , that it is almost impossible to respect.
Posted by: Pussy Riot at October 09, 2015 05:37 PM (9mTYi)
I downloaded AdBlock browser, but so far this thing is annoying.
Posted by: Blano at October 09, 2015 05:32 PM (LbDXZ)
That's been going on for quite a while. Try and get ace's attention about it and maybe he'll let his ad guys know that these annoying ads are back. There are also some that are causing crashes or preventing the page from fully loading.
For the app redirects though, if its taking you straight there from the site, then you'll probably see that specific ad on the page when you return to it. If its doing that redirect to another site first then you probably will have no ability to tell which ad is doing it.
Posted by: buzzion at October 09, 2015 05:37 PM (z/Ubi)
After years & years of it, so very true.
Fuggit. It's 5 o'clock somewhere, time for a drink.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 09, 2015 05:37 PM (go6ud)
without either a declaration of war, UN Security council resolution...
or any real Congressional Cover..."
Anyone else remember the endless squeaking and beeping from the left about "Bush's illegal wars"? Good times.
Posted by: torquewrench at October 09, 2015 05:38 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: wth at October 09, 2015 05:38 PM (wAQA5)
Posted by: Yo! at October 09, 2015 05:38 PM (GwIKd)
Obama - Horrible customer service.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2015 05:39 PM (9mTYi)
I have AdBlock on my iPad & don't have any ads.
It's free if you're using an iPad or iPhone. I have a Mac laptop & have both AdBlock & Ghostery extensions added to Safari.
I know that there is free Windows version. I read about Ghostery years ago & how sites track you. I was looking for a new moisturizer or something & had NRO open in another window & when I went back to NRO there was an ad for the moisturizer I had just looked at.
Posted by: Carol at October 09, 2015 05:39 PM (sj3Ax)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 09, 2015 05:15 PM
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I LOL'd
You owe me a new keyboard!
Posted by: Sun Tzu at October 09, 2015 05:39 PM (gWp07)
I get to be "Fist of the King"!
Posted by: reggie at October 09, 2015 05:39 PM (//bLW)
I'm losing my English, that's what I get for Frenching the Libertarian .
Posted by: Sun Tzu at October 09, 2015 05:40 PM (mcm0N)
Posted by: Jon at October 09, 2015 05:37 PM (HA+/6)
But... Russia's national debt is only 11% of GDP.
Ours is unknown currently, but well north of 100% of GDP...
The Soviet Union fell because of debt... we did not learn from their mistake.
Posted by: BB Wolf at October 09, 2015 05:40 PM (qh617)
Posted by: dogfish at October 09, 2015 05:40 PM (0O2Lr)
It's sort of the "see what lengths you made me go to to prove to you that you're a monster" strategy.
And here we are in the heart of an at least arguably noble animal, beaten and starved until it's a mad beast.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 09, 2015 05:40 PM (bLnSU)
of Color hater Putin. Putin and Bush are liars and should be punished by
our Presdent of Colon.
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein
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Looks like Mary's been hitting the painkillers at the clinic. Hard. With booze to wash it down with.
Posted by: Old Blue at October 09, 2015 05:40 PM (9iR5/)
Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2015 05:41 PM (gY61M)
Life is too short.
Posted by: Tucco, enjoying his bath at October 09, 2015 05:41 PM (7shwm)
Grandcourt can be charming when he wants to be, as I assume Obama can be. Grand court is also not stupid and he's well off.
Daniel Deronda converts to Judaism because he finds out his mother and father-whom he never knew growing up- were both Jewish (He finally meets his mother) and he grows to appreciate the depth of spirituality and commitment to faith, race and tradition and passion for a homeland that a dying Jewish man (Mordecai) has. This man is the brother of the Jewish woman he eventually marries. In appears his Christian faith has been entirely conventional so it's not really a surprise that he converts. George Eliot who always spent a lot of time doing research for her books read a lot of scholarly articles on Jewish history She was also good friends with a Talmudic scholar, Emanuel Deutsch, who also cherished the idea of a Jewish homeland.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 09, 2015 05:42 PM (GERXL)
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Don't help your enemy commit suicide.
And pass the popcorn.
Posted by: GBruno at October 09, 2015 05:42 PM (u49WF)
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 09, 2015 05:42 PM (JO9+V)
Life is too short.
Posted by: Tucco, enjoying his bath at October 09, 2015 05:41 PM (7shwm)
You must have had hotter librarians. Or maybe the librarian that was into Bud Bundy.
Posted by: buzzion at October 09, 2015 05:42 PM (z/Ubi)
without either a declaration of war, UN Security council resolution...
or any real Congressional Cover..."
Anyone else remember how Democrats in Congress reacted when they learned that Richard Nixon was using military forces in Laos and Cambodia without formal Congressional authorization?
They passed a law which SPECIFICALLY FORBADE any such actions.
No money was to be spent. Power of the purse, that obsolete 18th century concept. And, they made it stick. The Nixon White House had to go through absurd gymnastics to continue the war effort after that point.
What do today's congressional Republicans do in response to Obama waging war without authorization? They shrug, and pass another continuing resolution for the budget, and head out for a couple of martinis at a K Street watering hole.
Posted by: torquewrench at October 09, 2015 05:42 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: dogfish at October 09, 2015 05:43 PM (0O2Lr)
Cheers, comrades!
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at October 09, 2015 05:31 PM
*raises martini*
Cheers artisanal 'ette!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 09, 2015 05:43 PM (KrAjA)
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Don't help your enemy commit suicide.
And pass the popcorn.
Posted by: GBruno at October 09, 2015 05:42 PM (u49WF)
I don't know.... but Napoleon would repeat 'don't interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake'...
Posted by: BB Wolf at October 09, 2015 05:43 PM (qh617)
Posted by: Skip
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Hillary stole the Reset button.
Then Putin punked her for it.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2015 05:43 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Yo! at October 09, 2015 05:44 PM (GwIKd)
Ace - I beg you, please talk to your ad people. It takes about 5 reloads just to get to AOSHQ on iPhone.
Posted by: SH at October 09, 2015 05:44 PM (gmeXX)
Posted by: Eromero at October 09, 2015 05:44 PM (go5uR)
About 45 minutes till the Cubs play some-other-team in the first of what will go down in history as the World's Finest Baseball Event.
Must prepare:
Step 1. Remove pants - replace with flannel jammies (don't judge)
Step 2. Prepare consumables
That's as far as I got so far
Posted by: grammie winger, Isa al-Masih for muslims too at October 09, 2015 05:45 PM (dFi94)
Posted by: Curses, Tinfoiled Again! at October 09, 2015 05:46 PM (Mz/Zg)
Seem very similar to me
Posted by: Yo! at October 09, 2015 05:44 PM
King's weak son is about 3 orders of magnitude manlier than Barky. And he's probably a top.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 09, 2015 05:46 PM (KrAjA)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at October 09, 2015 05:46 PM (YEelc)
Posted by: maddogg at October 09, 2015 05:46 PM (xWW96)
_______________________
The king's weak son had an attractive wife.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at October 09, 2015 05:46 PM (a31sM)
Ace - I beg you, please talk to your ad people. It takes about 5 reloads just to get to AOSHQ on iPhone.
Posted by: SH at October 09, 2015 05:44 PM (gmeXX)
Having no trouble here. Adblock on the Mercury browser.
Posted by: Golfman at October 09, 2015 05:46 PM (48QDY)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at October 09, 2015 05:47 PM (LUgeY)
Posted by: dantesed at October 09, 2015 05:47 PM (88xKn)
Don't tucker yourself out. Main event doesn't come on till later.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2015 05:47 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, Model Citizen at October 09, 2015 05:47 PM (09Lhy)
273 How is barky different the Kings weak son in Brave Heart?
Seem very similar to me
Posted by: Yo! at October 09, 2015 05:44 PM (GwIKd)
The gay lover of the prince actually seemed like he might actually have some military knowledge. So "competent advisor/lover" point to prince fruit loop.
Posted by: Buzzion at October 09, 2015 05:47 PM (z/Ubi)
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at October 09, 2015 05:46 PM (a31sM)
I hit that.
Posted by: William Wallace at October 09, 2015 05:47 PM (48QDY)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 09, 2015 05:47 PM (bLnSU)
Posted by: GrandMa Bell at October 09, 2015 05:48 PM (RLdcX)
Posted by: SH at October 09, 2015 05:44 PM (gmeXX)
******
Disable Javascript when come here. You're welcome.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at October 09, 2015 05:48 PM (1eYr7)
If the Republicans get consistently bullied by international laughing stock Obama, how would they function internationally?
Posted by: Northernlurker at October 09, 2015 05:48 PM (tMrac)
Posted by: William Wallace at October 09, 2015 05:47 PM
Sophie Marceau? Like the fist of an angry god....
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 09, 2015 05:49 PM (KrAjA)
Posted by: dogfish at October 09, 2015 05:49 PM (0O2Lr)
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 09, 2015 05:49 PM (JO9+V)
When your enemy promotes a court jester to commander-in-chief, distract him with a sideshow circus and savor the lamentations of the women.
Posted by: Fritz at October 09, 2015 05:50 PM (3tjn4)
Easy. The current Republicans are weaker than Mr MomPants. Thus, the uproar over McCarthy and the rise of Trump, et al.
Posted by: Golfman at October 09, 2015 05:51 PM (48QDY)
Republicans will never let that happen. We're severely conservative!
Posted by: Bitch McConnell with a Dick In His Mouth at October 09, 2015 05:51 PM (u5gzz)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at October 09, 2015 05:51 PM (2z4UX)
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 09, 2015 05:52 PM (JO9+V)
http://tinyurl.com/nwcwu44
Posted by: dartist at October 09, 2015 05:52 PM (kDYa9)
I am proud Presdent Abama, so proud on how has stood up to that Person
of Color hater Putin. Putin and Bush are liars and should be punished by
our Presdent of Colon.
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein
........................
We are proud to announce the winner of this years spelling bee...
Posted by: Brattleboro Public Elementary School at October 09, 2015 05:52 PM (wAQA5)
I used to live a couple of miles from the B'ham airport that had NatGuard F-4's fly in on approach. A partial throttle those things would howl like the dickens.
I loved it.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at October 09, 2015 05:53 PM (LUgeY)
Posted by: unfatmatt at October 09, 2015 05:53 PM (ofDwz)
Posted by: grammie winger, Isa al-Masih for muslims too at October 09, 2015 05:53 PM (dFi94)
Meanwhile in Roseburg, Oregon, 8000 protesters show up to tell Barky to go home.
.......................
Kenya or Indonesia?
Posted by: wth at October 09, 2015 05:54 PM (wAQA5)
And he's not done yet.....
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at October 09, 2015 05:54 PM (ej1L0)
I've wanted to notify ace, but I can't seem to locate a/the email address anymore.
Posted by: Blano at October 09, 2015 05:55 PM (ahprv)
I hope he doesn't. I pray he doesn't. But I can't imagine why he wouldn't.
Posted by: JPS at October 09, 2015 05:55 PM (uACkr)
I loved it.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at October 09, 2015 05:53 PM (LUgeY)
Don't get me wrong, I love living the roaring life. But the plane is a Navy plane and I don't "trust" the Navy on an AF Base
Posted by: GrandMa Bell at October 09, 2015 05:56 PM (RLdcX)
Posted by: Sam In Va at October 09, 2015 04:37 PM (JsDSm)
Indeed it is but Mr. FuckHead is not cool he is aloof.
Posted by: Drill Thrawl at October 09, 2015 05:56 PM (JOG+K)
"I don't think so at all," said Mr. Putin. "I don't think that's the case and I don't intend to get involved in a domestic American skirmish."
... there is a difference between weakness and stupidity
Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at October 09, 2015 06:01 PM (e8kgV)
Posted by: teh Wind at October 09, 2015 06:17 PM (up5+o)
"Confucius, what a pussy!"
"No way, Tzu, that's not all like philosophical, and shit!"
Okay, how about "Humiliating such an enemy is more like pants-ing than war!"
"Better but come on!"
Fine "War requires an enemy worthy of the title!"
"Yeah, that would look pretty cool on a T-shirt!"
"Great, and stop bogarting the pipe, bro!"
Posted by: JB1000 at October 09, 2015 06:26 PM (ZPPN5)
*Malia turns to sister* What the hell was THAT about??
Posted by: Fredo 0Bama at October 09, 2015 06:40 PM (lDIk/)
Sadly, even that puling little puke had more balls than Obama.
Posted by: jwpaine, otherized for your protection at October 09, 2015 07:16 PM (wKcQA)
Sadly, even that puling little puke had more balls than Obama.
Posted by: jwpaine, otherized for your protection at October 09, 2015 07:16 PM
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Probably why he got tossed.
Posted by: TJ Camper at October 09, 2015 07:53 PM (gWp07)
Posted by: Picky at October 09, 2015 08:53 PM (N1yvt)
Posted by: Seipherd at October 09, 2015 10:55 PM (NRPjM)
Sorry, but the only thing that would be worth watching that involves that asshole is his resignation in disgrace.
Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at October 10, 2015 02:05 AM (wgrxk)
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