Posted on 11/05/2008 6:08:27 PM PST by swordfishtrombone
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev welcomed Barack Obama's victory in the US presidential election on Wednesday, saying he would bring "perestroika" to the United States, ITAR-TASS news agency reported.
"I am very happy. Two or three years ago I said America needed perestroika, and this was greeted with cheers in the US," Mr Gorbachev was quoted as saying, using the term for his 1980s liberal reforms that helped end the Cold War.
"It is no accident that the whole world followed these elections, including in Russia, where they were followed like never before. This shows there is hope that the arrival of a new administration will bring changes," he added.
Mr Gorbachev, a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, added that the election of the United States' first black president was a "lesson" for other countries and showed "a very strong side of America."
Perestroika - a Russian word that translates roughly as "rebuilding" - was the name given to the liberal reforms Gorbachev introduced in the 1980s as he opened up the markets of the former Soviet Union.
-AFP
Naturally, the rabid, lazy scumbags on DU were lapping this up... "hooray, change! Whats a pestroykah? Bush lied"
“restructuring”.
doesn’t that warm your ...?
In other words we are screwed, at least until the midterms, if the pubies wake by then.
Oh Boy... a “Gorbasm”
So Gorbie sees the US breaking up and losing states? Secession? Which state will break off first?
Go back a few years Gorby - Obama is “Lenin”, Rahm is “Trotsky”. We have yet to meet “Stalin”.
Oh boy!
Max Winestainheadroom speaks.
WOW!!
With that cute nickname "Gorby" what harm could he do?
The media’s previous favorite commie offers comments on the media’s newest favorite commie.
Yesterday was the saddest day of our nation since 9/11. In time it can prove even worse.
I still, after 24 hrs, can NOT believe this country elected this marxist to the White House. For once I actually agree with Michael Moore that Americans are indeed stupid.
If Obama does for America what Gorbachev did for the Soviet Union, we’re in big trouble.
Georgia? hee-couldn’t resist.
Ruh roh Shaggy..
Screw you Gorbachev, filthy communist.
My memory is not too good today, but didn't perestroika immediately preceed the fall of the USSR?
I am ever so comforted that Gorbie is happy with the 0bama pick. Of course Big Media is happy that Gorbie is happy, too. Blecch! Where is the barf alert?
Gorby's "openness" and "restructuring" led to the collapse of the Soviet system. Why? Because the system was so corrupt and brittle that all he had to do was nudge it with his elbow and it fell over.
The New Deal paradigm of the past 75 years is just as rotten. If Obama "restructures", and nudges it into oblivion, we could see a real opportunity society emerge.
It's the unspoken "collapse" part that is worrying. Read Atlas Shrugged to see how a socialistic paradigm collapses and what happens along the way. It ain't pretty.
Right up there with Al Gore.
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