"You know taking my lunch money is a just proves you're weak."
Posted on 03/25/2014 1:41:21 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Before departing the Nuclear Security Summit in the Netherlands Tuesday, President Obama defended his handling of the crisis in Ukraine against criticism that he has misread Russian President Vladimir Putin's intentions or Russia's standing in the world.
Though the two-day gathering in the Hague was a forum for dozens of nations to discuss how to improve worldwide nuclear security, it also provided a convenient gathering place for the world's most powerful nations to discuss their response to the Russian annexation of the Crimean peninsula, which is widely viewed as illegitimate by the West. On Monday, the Group of Seven (G-7) nations moved to exclude Russia from international meetings and abandoned plans for a summit in Sochi this June.
Yet Mr. Obama, who has imposed sanctions on Ukrainian and Russian individuals and threatened to target entire sectors of the Russian economy, has faced charges that he has mishandled the situation. Among the chief critics has been 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney -- whom Mr. Obama mocked for labeling Russia the number one geopolitical threat to the U.S. during a presidential debate - who said on CBS News' "Face the Nation" last Sunday that the president's "naiveté" emboldened Putin. "The truth of the matter is that America's got a whole lot of challenges. Russia is a regional power that is threatening some of its immediate neighbors, not out of strength but out of weakness," Mr. Obama said at a press conference Tuesday when asked whether Romney had been correct. "My response then continues to be what I believe today: Russia's actions are a problem. They don't pose the number one national security threat to the United States. I continue to be much more concerned when it comes to our security with the prospect of a nuclear weapon going off in Manhattan."
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Romney continues to ‘recalibrate’ his election chances. If Romney keeps openly pile-driving, slamming and verbally smacking Obama around, he may just make some new fans on the Millenial or Libertarian Side. Remember how cozy Romney and Rand Paul (the dad) were during the campaign? I do. I think both men have a lot of respect for the other.
The statement was “UHHH, DUHH UMM, Not so. The AHHHH governor is AH, UMMM not correct.”
A region of power? What is THAT supposed to mean? (I know it is backtracking, but really, ‘a region of power’ is just gobbledygook).
Vlad appears to be getting what he wants in the region. Barry not so much. And personally, I think if we get more guys like Nidal Hasan and the Tsarnaev boys wreaking more conventional havoc, sponsored or free-lance, that might be more debilitating over the long run than Manhattan getting nuked. With all due respect to the folks in and around.
oh I do know!
He is the official vacation secretary!
LOL
"You know taking my lunch money is a just proves you're weak."
‘Moochelle’ probably does wear the pants but it is Jarrett who is the ventriloquist.
It doesn’t matter what he says. Just wait fifteen minutes and he’ll say something completely different.
All of you who refused to vote for Romney because he wasn’t conservative enough ready to admit your mistake?
Actually, the apology needs to be made by all who supported Romney in the primaries. But, of course, no one could possibly predicted that candidate Romney would lose in the general. /s
And I voted for him. Even bit the bullet and urged others to do so in an attempt to defeat Obama. The sorry thing was Romney’s sorry ass campaign.
RWBP, he wasn't conservative AT ALL.
He was and IS a functional leftist. PERIOD. That he criticizes Obama is the same as shooting fish in a barrel. You can admire him for it if you want. I continue to see him for what he IS: a functional amoral leftist.
Voting for him and voting for THAT is ALWAYS going to be a mistake. When are you going to admit it?
Wrong, Jim. The sorry-ass thing was Romney's LEFTISM. A leftist is guaranteed to run a sorry-ass campaign against a fellow leftist.
Advocating for Romney under any circumstances is covert support for amoral depravity. Had Romney won and was implementing all the pro-abortion pro-homosexual pro-nationalized health care pro gun control pro global warming crap that he DEMONSTRABLY advocates and supports, I guarantee you that everybody here who voted for him would be caterwauling and wailing and crying that they were FORCED to vote for it, that they had no choice, that they were TRICKED into voting for amoral tyranny.
Wrong, Jim. No one forced moral conservatives to vote FOR an agent of amoral tyranny. They did it willingly and WILLFULLY. Any support for Romney is covert support for everything this website supposedly stands against.
He is more conservative than Obama. That’s what counts most. Of the two, who would you rather be dealing with the crisis in Ukraine?
So it's even worse than we thought. Instead of being incompetent, Obama is saying that he was complicit. He understood perfectly Putin's intentions, and did nothing to stand in the way of them.
He understood perfectly Putin’s intentions, and did nothing to stand in the way of them.
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That’s his Flexibility™ at work.
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