Posts Tagged ‘Russia’

Here We Go…Crisis Awaits Obama

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

Finally, after decades in the halls of the US Senate, Joe Biden was right on a foreign policy issue: the world’s worst characters will test Barack Obama when he becomes president.

As if the War on Terror weren’t enough, and the financial crisis wasn’t hard enough to solve, now we have Russia placing missiles on the border of Poland, President Karzai demanding we stop using airplanes in Afghanistan, and of course Osama has reared his ugly head and supposedly has a new video waiting in the wings for the new president.

To recap how we can expect Obama to respond, let’s look at his record:

When Russia invaded Georgia, Obama immediately stepped to the front and forcefully demanded that…uh, Georgia (?) allow cooler heads to prevail? While Russia was bombing civilians, setting fire to villages, and invading sovereign territory, Obama boldly told the victims to hush up. Classy.

Barack also happens to agree that America is indiscriminately bombing civilians in Afghanistan.

“We’ve got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we’re not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous problems there.”

Oh, and Sen. John Kerry is on the shortlist for Secretary of State. Enough said on that one. Surely, he will stand up to Karzai.

Lastly, we have evidence of how Obama has formerly dealt with terrorists. William Ayers.

Obama Blows Response to Georgian, Russian Conflict

Sunday, August 10th, 2008

It’s 3:00am and what the hell is Barack Obama thinking?! Whatever it is, America can’t afford to have our next president think the same way…

Showing his true abilities in reaching out to other countries, Obama apparently used the Kremlin’s press offices when writing his response to McCain’s very prescient statement on the Russian invasion of Georgia. I say prescient because it was only one day before Obama began to correct his initial statements on the matter to look more like the more informed judgments of John McCain. Also, McCain has been warning of the dangerous Putin-led return to Soviet-style politics in Russia since 1999. Was Obama even in office then? Yes, he was. While John McCain was working on the international stage solving global problems, Barack Obama was in his first term as a state senator in Illinois.

In the end, here’s what the news coverage of the events looked like:

As that stupid YouTube video says, “Ouch, Charlie! That really hurts!”