EDITORIAL
Oh, Nobama!
Predictable things are starting to happen to the presidency of Barack Obama, which hasn’t even started yet but is already marked by a stunning series of serious setbacks. We hope these will not be an equally predictable distraction from Obama’s essential confrontation with neo-Soviet Russia.
On Friday morning, as the U.S. posted a net loss of more than half a million jobs for the second straight month and the unemployment rate rose above 7%, the front page of the New York Times website, one of Obama’s biggest cheerleaders, carried both a news story about how Democrats on Capitol Hill were attacking Obama’s proposed stimulus package and a blistering op-ed from Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman condemning Obama on the same grounds.
Conservatives had no time to enjoy the Democratic infighting, though. They were too busy issuing withering condemnations of their own, responding to Obama’s choice of the utterly unqualified bureaucrat Leon Panetta to run the Central Intelligence Agency.
Meanwhile, Obama’s proposed chief of staff is mired in the scandal that has led to the impeachment of the governor of Obama’s home state for trying to sell Obama’s Senate seat to the highest bidder. One of Obama’s chief fundraisers has been sent to prison for corruption, and has turned informant to reduce his sentence. And David Broder, dean of the Washington Press corps, ridiculed Obama for being unable to stop the nearly defunct governor’s nose-thumbing nomination to fill his former seat.
And Obama hasn’t even taken the oath of office yet!
We fear that events like these will distract President Obama from the crucial task of standing up to the threat posed by neo-Soviet Russia both to Western security and Western values. Even without these distractions, we worried long before he was elected that Obama lacked the basic foreign policy chops to even understand the issue, much less to develop and effective response. Now, the prospects seem even more abysmally bleak.
We retain an open mind, and hope President Obama will surprise us with his courage, his energy and his committment to the values he claimed during his campaign. But we are not Obamtamistic about it.
La Russophobe 
Soros F’ed up Russia in the 90’s. Now, he is screwing with American politics by putting his marionette in power. The marionette promised change on the campaign trail, but he should have promised retreads or recycling with all the Clinton losers he’s appointed. Remember the Clinton Admin sucked up to Yeltsin far too long and then kissed Putin’s butt when he came into power.
Here are my predictions:
1st Year
Obama will cave on the radar missile shield.
Obama will send contradictory signals regarding Ukraine and Georgian Security. Russia will further gain influence in Ukraine. i.e. Ukraine won’t get anywhere near signing a document to join Nato.
Putin will consolidate his power in the Caucus by annexing Abkhazia and Ossetia.
A couple of appointments definitely point at Obama’s lack of experience in foreign policy. Clinton as SOS and Panetta as CIA director. Neither are qualified for those posts. Apparently Obama wants to just focus on screwing up the U.S. Soon we’ll be retreating from our foreign policy committments around the world, which won’t leave the world better off. The vacuum will be filled with the likes of China, Russia and Iran. Not exactly places that respect the rule of law and human rights.
I’m expecting Obama to be Jimmy Carter redux and we all know had badly that ended. I could be very surprised, but, doubt it.
Obama has already admitted the economy would get worst before it gets better, that’s his first red flag. In the end, he’ll just slow down the economic crisis a bit, maybe even be able to hide it. But at least we don’t have a sick moron like McCain who would probably croak before his term ends, leaving Palin, an idiotic fanatic who believes dinosaurs and men walked side by side 6,000 years ago, can’t even rob state funds without being noticed, prays daily for armageddon with her finger on a nuclear trigger. But I don’t think Obama’s going to do even half of what he promised to do.
“On Friday morning, as the U.S. posted a net loss of more than half a million jobs for the second straight month and the unemployment rate rose above 7%”
And yet Russa’s so bad, and America is so perfect.
To TB;
At least in US we can still call an elected official an “idiotic fanatic” without getting hauled off to the Gulag. The US is not perfect, but the system in place helps to weather such problems as we are facing now. The reason US can weather a political/economic storm as what is starting now, is that there are still individual liberties, the ability to have an independent press, and there still exists an independent judiciary. Putin has eliminated the chance for Russia to rise above the circumstances which she faces. And for what, a taste of power? The man has no clue what real power is all about, something most dictators and absolute rulers do not learn or even realize. He had his chance , he has blown it, unless he does a complete 180. But it seems unlikely with the Constitutional change that has been made. Too bad for Russia.
barb, the difference between Russia and the US is that calling the head of state an ‘idiotic fanatic’ in public might actually make a difference in Russia, but is completely irrelevant in the US.
Which means that there is still hope for change in Russia, while in the US – we are completely screwed.
barb, well put. At least Americans with access to uncensored information can through the ballot box correct any fool like Carter that makes it to the White House in four years or in Congression at mid-term in two. The Russians aren’t so lucky.
Tower, your Neanderthal sovok mind isn’t working out so well here.
To “Tower Bolshevik”, the USA is certainly not perfect but it does have the following advantages:
1. Rule of law
2. Freedom of speech (even for people like you) where people can criticise the government without fear of being labelled traitors and sent to siberia for a “holiday”
3. Democracy
4. A diverse economy, yes with problems but nothing that can’t be fixed, unlike Russia’s one horse show.
5. An ethnically diverse culture without the violent racism found in Russia.
6. Personal freedoms guaranteed by law.
All of the above are why people would rather live in the USA than Russia.
By the way, I am not a US citizen or resident.
If Palin is an “idiotic fanatic”, then what do you call Obama, the appeaser with no discomfort with infanticide, or practical experience?
Give me Sarah Palin any day!
Obama has already admitted the economy would get worst before it gets better, that’s his first red flag. In the end, he’ll just slow down the economic crisis a bit, maybe even be able to hide it. But at least we don’t have a sick moron like McCain who would probably croak before his term ends, leaving Palin, an idiotic fanatic who believes dinosaurs and men walked side by side 6,000 years ago, can’t even rob state funds without being noticed, prays daily for armageddon with her finger on a nuclear trigger. But I don’t think Obama’s going to do even half of what he promised to do.
“On Friday morning, as the U.S. posted a net loss of more than half a million jobs for the second straight month and the unemployment rate rose above 7%”
And yet Russa’s so bad, and America is so perfect.
The American Economy is not as bad as Obama makes it out to be. The banks are facing a crisis in confidence and are too afraid to loan money. They’ve got plenty in reserve.
The price of oil will not return to $148 a barrel anytime soon. Those prices were created by speculators, who played loose with derivatives. Those shenanigans will be over for a while.
The American economy will bounce back later in the 3rd or 4th Quarter. The main reason is that the American Economy is well diversified unlike Russia’s.
As for McCain, he was a better option than Obama. Palin has more intelligence than Biden. Like what happened to Russia, the US got screwed over big time by George Soros. If there is anything I agree with Putin on, it is that Soros is an ass.
Penny, I 100% agree about Obama being the next Jimmy Carter.
Tower Bolshevik, Russia is bad, but this is far regrettably worse! http://www.geocities.com/h_marroquin/Communist.html
I seriously spewed my capitalist driven beverage all over my high dollar monitor.
For Barb:
If American patriots had it their way, being sent to prison for bashing the politicians would be a penalty. The “independent” press are nothing more than mouthpieces for the U.S government and their lies, such as spewing garbage that things are going to get better on the same road that is strangling the economy. I’m not fond of Putin personally, but I will say this he has more brains than any U.S politician I’ve seen, and has brought Russia out of much of the disaster caused by Yeltsin. Putin was elected, and is not held in power by any policy. Putin may have blown a lot of things, but not nearly as much as Yeltsin. I’m sure such a change in which you speak of won’t happen in Russia, anymore than one will happen in the USA.
For Penny:
You can do nothing more than insult me with your pathetic canservative ignorance. So just put a lid on it. Sovok? What’s that some new MTV word for Russia? Haven’t watched it since the 80’s.
For Kolchak:
Well, I don’t where you are. But I live in the richest state in the U.S, California. There are no jobs here, businesses are closing faster than you can say “business busting bastards”. For all of ours sake, I hope you’re right about the economy bouncing back. But I’m not getting my hopes up even with Obama.
I really don’t know what you’ve been reading. But Biden doesn’t believe that being able to see Russia from Alaska hold any legitimacy for foreign policy experience. Biden has been out of the country, and if he embezzeled any money (which I have no doubt he has at some point) he wasn’t dumb enough to get caught. Also, there is no doubt in my mind that Biden knows that dinosaurs died out 65 millions years ago and did not walk along side man. Palin is the exact opposite of the above. She’s an idiot worst than Bush, and a fanatic.
Poor delusional Hector.
hey Tower; just a few things. 1. I guess we will have to agree to disagree. 2. Not sure which bunch you are identifying as American Patriots, but the kind of people I’ve met who think like that are left wing fanatics who want everyone to be silenced except themselves, 3. the main stream media (which hated the Bush & Reagon administrations-some of them personally) only acts as a mouthpiece when it serves their purpose of furthuring the left-wing agenda, 4. I’ll agree with you on the cock-eyed attempt to renew this economy through the same idiotic attempts that put this economy on the skids in the first place, 5. Are you sure it was Yeltsin who screwed up (my personal opinion is that the ideology of democracy and capitalism are taking the blame for inept leadership, and rampant corruption), 6. I’ve read many of Putin’s speaches, and he sure can give good speaches, but his actions are more often just the opposite of what he says.
Please answer me this, even if you disagree with everything I’ve just written. Why won’t Putin invest in the People of Russia? They are more precious than some black gold, or fool’s gold, stuck in the ground. They are the ones with the brains and the muscle to make things happen. They are the ones who work like dogs…and for what?