A damning indictment of spineless foreign policy: Barack Obama gets Kremlin’s vote for 2012

telegraph.co.uk ^ | June 19, 2011 | Nile Gardiner

[Tailgunner Joe]

When Hillary Clinton famously called for a “reset” of Washington’s relations with Moscow back in early 2009, she should have called it by its more appropriate term, “surrender”. From caving in to Russian demands to scrap plans for Third Site missile defences in eastern and central Europe to signing on to the New START Treaty, US policy towards Russia under the Obama administration has been one wretched give away after another, even stretching as far as handing over sensitive information on Britain’s nuclear deterrent.

Is it any wonder that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is now openly calling for Barack Obama’s re-election? In an extraordinary interview with The Financial Times, the Russian leader gives a glowing account of his US counterpart, in a direct intervention in US domestic politics 16 months ahead of the November 2012 presidential election. Here is what Medvedev said to the FT’s interview team:

Nothing lasts forever in this world. Our relations have improved, and I think this is owing to the efforts of the new [US] administration and personally president Obama, with whom I am friends. It is easy for me to work with him. If a different person becomes US president, he might have a different agenda.

… I believe I have been lucky in this respect at least, because my counterpart has been a modern man wanting change not only for America, but for the whole world order as well. You have kept on asking me about my presidency and whether I will stand for president again, or whether somebody else will come to office. Let me tell you that no one wishes the re-election of Barack Obama as US president as I do…

[Tailgunner Joe]

Medvedev says wants to see Obama re-elected - June 19, 2011 - "We understand that there are representatives of a rather conservative wing there who are trying to achieve their political goals at the expense of inflaming passions in relation to Russia, among other things. - War Criminal Dmitri Medvedev, "President" of Russia

[Heuristic Hiker]

Of course he wants Barry back. Barry is for socialist/communist/Alinsky change they both can believe in.