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Carney Whines: Republicans Shouldn’t Criticize Obama Over His Foreign Policy Blunders During Ukraine Crisis
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Someone should remind Jay of how Dems acted during the Iraq war.

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White House press secretary Jay Carney said he personally has no regrets that President Obama’s team poked fun at Mitt Romney for calling Russia America’s No. 1 geopolitical foe during the 2012 election despite this week’s Russian incursion into Ukraine.

During Thursday’s press briefing, Carney responded to a question from Fox News’ Ed Henry about whether he had any regrets about the Obama campaign dismissing Romney’s Russian comments by flatly responding “no” before restating the state of play in Ukraine right now.

“Again … you have a situation where Russia is violating international law because a country – a government that Moscow supported was rejected by the vast majority of the Ukrainian people and because they wanted to determine their own future,” he said during Thursday’s press briefing.

He then pivoted to criticizing Republicans for assailing Obama’s foreign policy during such a delicate time for diplomacy.

“I think it’s very important to note that when it comes to these kinds of situations on the international scene, you know, partisan politics are fine,” she said. “We engage in them every day here in Washington.”

“But in a case like this, instead of being a partisan Republican and attacking the president, you know, be a partisan American in, you know, identifying the outrageous actions and violations of international law that have taken place.”

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 Post subject: Re: Obama's Flacid Impotence Against Putin In Ukraine
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National Emergency! Obama’s Vacation Plans In Jeopardy Because of Ukraine Crisis
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Vladimir Putin has put President Barack Obama’s vacation plans on hold.

Obama is headed to Coral Reef High School in the southern part of Miami, Fla., on Friday for an event about education and the economy that first lady Michelle Obama had been expected to attend as well. What hadn’t been known was that Obama’s daughters were planning to come with them, and that the four were going to extend the trip for a brief family getaway.

Now, the White House tells POLITICO that he’s reconsidering.

“The president had planned to stay in South Florida with his family for the remainder of the weekend,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said. “However, it is possible the president may return to the White House on Friday as events unfold in Ukraine.”

Obama isn’t expected to head to Kiev or anywhere else if the weekend in Florida gets scrapped, but more likely have a repeat of last weekend, which he spent in briefings and on the phone with foreign leaders after Putin began moving troops into Crimea.

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Crimea’s Deputy PM Says “Second Step” By Russia Will Be To Seize Eastern Ukraine
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Apparently those sternly worded statements are failing to deter Putin.

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(NBC News) — The polls have closed in Ukraine’s autonomous Crimean region following a contentious day of voters casting ballots Sunday in a referendum on whether the peninsula should become part of Russia instead.

The voting ended at 8 p.m. local time (2 p.m. ET)

The referendum, backed by Moscow and adamantly opposed by Ukraine’s new government and its western allies, is expected to be easily approved. Crimea has a large ethnic Russian population, and pro-Russian sentiment is deeply felt in Simferopol, the region’s main administrative city.

Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday said Russia will face sanctions if it supports the referendum and has warned of “an even greater response” if Russia sends troops into eastern Ukraine.

But local politicians here in Crimea are speaking optimistically about expanding Russia’s reach into other areas of Ukraine.

During an interview with NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel, Crimea’s Deputy Prime Minister called Sunday’s referendum “the first step.”

“It’s the first step. I really think so,” the deputy prime minister, Rustam Temirgaliev, said. “I think the second step will be eastern Ukraine.”

Temirgaliev added that plans were underway to introduce the Russian Ruble in Crimea by early April, and that his government is exploring running a cable eastward to deliver Russian electrical energy to the peninsula.

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Russian State TV Says Russia Could Turn America Into “Radioactive Ash”
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Moscow (AFP) – A leading anchor on Russian state television on Sunday described Russia as the only country capable of turning the United States into “radioactive ash”, in an incendiary comment at the height of tensions over the Crimea referendum.

“Russia is the only country in the world realistically capable of turning the United States into radioactive ash,” anchor Dmitry Kiselyov said on his weekly news show on state-controlled Rossiya 1 television.

Kiselyov made the comment to support his argument that the United States and President Barack Obama were living in fear of Russia led by President Vladimir Putin amid the Ukraine crisis.

His programme was broadcast as the first exit polls were being published showing an overwhelming majority of Crimeans voting to leave Ukraine and join Russia.

He stood in his studio in front of a gigantic image of a mushroom cloud produced after a nuclear attack, with the words “into radioactive ash”.

“Americans themselves consider Putin to be a stronger leader than Obama,” he added, pointing to opinion polls which then popped up on the screen.

“Why is Obama phoning Putin all the time and talking to him for hours on end?” he asked.

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Russian State TV Says Russia Could Turn America Into “Radioactive Ash”
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Cold War redux.

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Moscow (AFP) – A leading anchor on Russian state television on Sunday described Russia as the only country capable of turning the United States into “radioactive ash”, in an incendiary comment at the height of tensions over the Crimea referendum.

“Russia is the only country in the world realistically capable of turning the United States into radioactive ash,” anchor Dmitry Kiselyov said on his weekly news show on state-controlled Rossiya 1 television.

Kiselyov made the comment to support his argument that the United States and President Barack Obama were living in fear of Russia led by President Vladimir Putin amid the Ukraine crisis.

His programme was broadcast as the first exit polls were being published showing an overwhelming majority of Crimeans voting to leave Ukraine and join Russia.

He stood in his studio in front of a gigantic image of a mushroom cloud produced after a nuclear attack, with the words “into radioactive ash”.

“Americans themselves consider Putin to be a stronger leader than Obama,” he added, pointing to opinion polls which then popped up on the screen.

“Why is Obama phoning Putin all the time and talking to him for hours on end?” he asked.



Here we go again, but this time we have a worm in the White house instead of a leader. :(


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Here we go again, but this time we have a worm in the White house instead of a leader. :(


Except the reality is that sane, normal, rational people who don't suffer from Obama Derangement Syndrome and who are not stupid and ignorant, know for a fact that if it were John McCain or Mitt Romney in the Oval Office nothing would be different.

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Obama Derangement Syndrome


Not an original thought in his head ladies and gentlemen.

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Crimean Prime Minister Mocks Obama With Photoshop of Him Wearing A Russian Uniform
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Crimean Prime Minister Sergey Aksyonov mocked President Barack Obama on Twitter Monday by tweeting a photoshopped picture of him in a Russian military outfit. “Interestingly, after the success of the company in returning Crimea, Barack is getting the rank of colonel?” wrote Aksyonov.

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 Post subject: Re: Obama's Flacid Impotence Against Putin In Ukraine
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If there is one thing the deranged right is good at, it's hypocrisy on a grand scale.
Like I said, the reality is that sane, normal, rational people who don't suffer from Obama Derangement Syndrome and who are not stupid and ignorant, know for a fact that if it were John McCain or Mitt Romney in the Oval Office nothing would be different.


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Flashback, 2008: When A Russian Invasion Made Fox News Shrug

Fox News commentators have been rushing in to blame President Obama for the Russian military's excursion into Ukraine. It's because of Obama's "weakness" that Vladamir Putin has seized the military initiative, announced Sarah Palin.

The crisis proves Obama's guilty of misunderstanding the Russians and not being "interested in American national security affairs," according to John Bolton. Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told Fox viewers Obama "left a vacuum that Putin is filling," and Steve Doocy complained the president hasn't done "much" to solve the situation.

Also, Obama needs to get a "backbone" and he's "lost moral authority." All this while Fox has marveled over Putin's prowess as a true "leader," and swooned his supposed physical superiority over Obama.

Please note that in August 2008, during President Bush's final months in office, a strikingly similar scenario played out when Russian forces invaded the former Soviet state of Georgia. At the time, the Bush White House sounded an awful lot like today's Obama White House. From Bush spokeswoman Dana Perino, now a Fox host:


"The United States supports Georgia's territorial integrity. We call for an immediate ceasefire. We urge all parties Georgians, south Ossetians, Russians to deescalate the tensions and to avoid conflict. We are work on mediation efforts and to secure a ceasefire, and we are urging the parties to restart their dialogue."

Yet unlike today, the Putin-led excursion in 2008 completely failed to spark the panicked rhetoric that's become Fox News' trademark since Russian troops crossed over into Ukraine last week. Notably absent from the 2008 Georgia coverage was relentless finger pointing and blaming the White House for the extreme actions of a foreign leader thousands of miles away. There was also none of the Putin cheerleading that we hear on Fox News today.

In fact, some of the Fox commentators currently stoking the flames of "crisis" were rather non-judgmental when Russian tanks moved into Georgia. "I don't think the Russians are reckless," Charles Krauthammer announced on August 8, 2008, as Russian fleets advanced into the Black Sea and Russian jets launched raids targeting government buildings in Georgia. "What they are doing here is reasserting control of this province. And when it's done, which will probably happen in a couple days, the firing will crease."

Three days later, Krauthammer insisted there was nothing for the United States to do as the crisis escalated: "Well, obviously it's beyond our control. The Russians are advancing. There is nothing that will stop them. We are not going to go to war over Georgia." Krauthammer's Fox colleague Jeff Birnbaum, agreed: "Because Georgia is not part of NATO, there's really no danger the United States or Europe will get in involved in what is really a civil war almost between--within this small part of Georgia."

Fox News' message to America then? Just relax. There's nothing the U.S. can do about Russia invading its sovereign neighbor and it will all be over soon.

Bill O'Reilly agreed with the laissez-faire analysis. "Even if President Bush wanted to help Georgia we simply don't have the ground forces to do it," said O'Reilly on August 11.
"And confronting the Russians in the air would lead to major hostilities that the USA cannot afford right now."

Even Fox's usually bellicose, right-wing think tank commentators demurred. "There's no easy answer; there's only tough choices," said the Heritage Foundation's Peter Brookes on August 12, 2008. "Russia is a tough nut to crack."

Indeed.

Recall that early in his presidency Bush famously announced he had peered into Putin's soul and spotted goodness in the Russian leader. The Georgia invasion belayed Bush's gut instincts, but few Fox commentators mocked the president's for his misreading of Putin. (Nor was there discussion that Bush's failed war with Iraq had created an opportunity for Russia's military expansion.)

"I don't think that Putin spit in the eye of the president," insisted Karl Rove in 2008. And John Bolton, who this week accused Obama of not "paying attention" to Ukraine? Back in 2008, he gave Bush a pass when Russian troops poured into Georgia. "I think a lot of people missed it, not just the administration." Bolton said on Fox.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/03/04 ... fox/198322

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If there is one thing the deranged right is good at, it's hypocrisy on a grand scale.
Like I said, the reality is that sane, normal, rational people who don't suffer from Obama Derangement Syndrome and who are not stupid and ignorant, know for a fact that if it were John McCain or Mitt Romney in the Oval Office nothing would be different.


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Flashback, 2008: When A Russian Invasion Made Fox News Shrug

Don't hold your breath..OL' Archie won't respond. I posted this weeks ago and nothing but some cut and paste pics...
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What kind of suit was he wearing? What kind of posts were you making when this happened...hypocrite...


AUG. 8 2008.
Russia invades Georgia while the West watches. How did it come to this?


and the US president's response....
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George Bush called the country a "beacon of liberty"—has long wanted to do. In this, the Russians will almost certainly succeed.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2008/08/world_inaction.html

Here's a quiz for you...The answer is VERY easy!

What did Bush do when Russia invaded Chechnya twice and Georgia during his terms....?

A) He armed the Mujahadeen that included Bin Laden like Reagan?
B) Sent the US army to take care of it?
C) Absolutely nothing?

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Putin’s Quiet Latin American Play
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I'm sure that a sternly-worded letter that warns Putin that historians will say mean things about him will solve the problem.

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Away from the conflict in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin is quietly seeking a foothold in Latin America, military officials warn.

To the alarm of lawmakers and Pentagon officials, Putin has begun sending navy ships and long-range bombers to the region for the first time in years.

Russia’s defense minister says the country is planning bases in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, and just last week, Putin’s national security team met to discuss increasing military ties in the region.
“They’re on the march,” Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.) said at a Senate hearing earlier this month. “They’re working the scenes where we can’t work. And they’re doing a pretty good job.”

Gen. James Kelly, commander of U.S. Southern Command said there has been a “noticeable uptick in Russian power projection and security force personnel” in Latin America.

“It has been over three decades since we last saw this type of high-profile Russian military presence,” Kelly said at the March 13 hearing.

The U.S. military says it has been forced to cut back on its engagement with military and government officials in Latin America due to budget cuts. Kelly said the U.S. military had to cancel more than 200 effective engagement activities and multi-lateral exercises in Latin America last year.

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