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Jimmy Obama
NY Post ^ | 3-4-14 | NY Post Editorial Board

Posted on 03/04/2014 3:45:38 PM PST by SJackson

Vladimir Putin has taken the measure of Barack Obama. He’s found Jimmy Carter.

Like Jimmy Carter, who boasted he was free of any “inordinate fear of communism,” Obama began his term as president vowing to “reset” relations with Russia.

Like Jimmy Carter, who conveyed weakness when Iran took our embassy staff hostage, Obama confirmed his own weakness when he drew a red line in Syria and then backed down from enforcing it.

Like Jimmy Carter, who was rewarded by Leonid Brezhnev with a Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Putin has returned Obama’s favor with a Russian invasion of Ukraine.

And just like Carter, who responded with what his staff called “a strong public statement,” Obama responded with his own statement saying he is “deeply concerned” by Russia’s military movement in Ukraine.

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To: lentulusgracchus
McCain misspeaks and sticks his foot in his mouth almost as much as Biden and Obama........

Remember McCain was Obama's man on the ground during the Ukraine protests...his job ..shake hands make them feel important etc.


21 posted on 03/04/2014 6:20:04 PM PST by caww
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To: lentulusgracchus
McCain misspeaks and sticks his foot in his mouth almost as much as Biden and Obama........

Remember McCain was Obama's man on the ground during the Ukraine protests...his job ..shake hands make them feel important etc.


22 posted on 03/04/2014 6:20:04 PM PST by caww
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To: lentulusgracchus; cardinal4

If 0bastard were merely a bumbling oaf, by chance he’d do or say something right once in a great while.


23 posted on 03/04/2014 6:29:22 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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