Obama is looking like an idiot right now, so the sycophants are feeling butt-hurt, and are already starting the "WHAT DOES IT MATTER!!!" bs to bail Obama out.
(Oh... If you think this really does matter, you must be a racist that hates the idea of a black president!)
obozo’s sure as hell losing if he doesn’t want Russia in Ukraine.
Bush II stopped Putin in his tracks from invading Georgia and without firing a shot.
Obama as a leader of the free world is a joke.
Obama’s weakness emboldened Putin. Lie your way out of that, Guardian.
Delusional, amazingly delusional.
The British commies are circling Obama’s wagons quicker than his own sycophants here!
I really can’t say he’s totally wrong, as far as the Crimea is concerned.
In and of itself, the Crimea isn’t really worth taking action....It’s more about what Putin would do next.
Kind of like the Nazis marching into the Saar and Rhineland.......At the time, most felt the Germans were just taking back what was rightfully theirs’, and it wasn’t a big deal.
Of course that led Hitler to ‘up the ante’, then you got Austria, the Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia, then Poland........
They why is he trying to talk tough and make threats when both he and Putin know there's nothing he will do about it?
“Don’t be fooled by that incompetence you see. It’s on purpose.”
this guy has Kool-aide on his knee pads.
So last week while Putin was rolling the tanks, Obama was pitching minimum wage, Kerry was saying climate change is our greatest security threat, and Hagel was dismantling the Army.
The 3 Stooges are running American foreign policy.
I will stipulate that Obama can do nothing to stop Putin at this point.
But the fact that he can do nothing to stop Putin is entirely his own fault.
Words MATTER. Actions MATTER. From the time a president takes office, everything he does and says contributes to his reputation on the world stage - and reputation MATTERS.
On the world stage, Mr. Barack Hussein Obama has built himself a reputation as a weak, ignorant, foolish, ineffectual, know-it-all little brat.
Mr. Obama (and unfortunately the rest of the United States) is currently reaping in accord with the reputation he has sown; and his pea-brained, sycophantic, hopey-o-change-a-lot apologists in the media are coming unglued as it becomes more and more apparent exactly how much damage he has done to our country, and to the world.
“he’s not ‘losing’ – and it’s not his fight”
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This is what happens when newspeak divides by Zero.
There isn’t much to be accomplished by Ukraine trying to fight the Russian Military toe to toe. But if I had been the guy in charge, as soon as I knew what Putin was up to, I would have unleashed all the military assets at my command to destroy the oil and gas assets in Crimea and made ports unusable. I wonder what the pajama boy at the UK Guardian would have said to THAT!
Twenty years on, and the left still can’t pull its lips off the rotting buttocks of the Soviet Union.
Missing from this “analysis” about how Obama should respond is why Obama should respond. After all, the US has few strategic interests in the former Soviet Union and little ability to affect Russian decision-making.
The "Chamberlain" gambit.
I’ve decided to recycle a bit of liberal cant from Gulf War I: 0bama’s weakness “gave the green light to invasion.” But yeah, it’s pretty clear that the talking points are out and the MSM are circling the wagons. It’s actually pretty funny.
Actually, the problem isn’t that Obama isn’t doing anything.
It’s that he’s threatened serious consequences and most likely has no intention of following through, and most people know it. The bad guys certainly know it.
If you’re not prepared to be tough, just don’t comment.
I doubt most Americans would want to much as one US soldier to sprain a pinky over this. Whether that’s wise or not, I can’t say. But I don’t think there’s a groundswell for decisive action.
So simply don’t talk like you’re ready to get tough.
I suspect the kenyan or his people fomented the rebellion as part of their worldwide national destabilization efforts. I don’t think he can be faulted for “lack of action.” It were better did he not take any action at all.