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Topic: Russians back a second
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Russians back a second
term for Obama
Global Post (Boston, MA ), by Tom Balmforth
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Posted By:Scottyboy, 10/11/2012 8:21:21 AM
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| MOSCOW, Russia — Experts say the Kremlin would like to see President Barack Obama beat Mitt Romney in the US election next month — although you may be hard-pressed to divine that from recent developments. On Monday last week, the US Agency for International Development, USAID, wrapped up its 20 years of work in Russia on orders from the Kremlin. Two days later, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov took a swipe at Obama’s policy of improving ties with Russia by warning that perpetually “reset” relations would constitute a “program failure.”
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Comments:
Surprise! /s
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Quaestio, 10/11/2012 8:34:28 AM (No. 8925120)
The Russians have never stopped playing the great game. Another term of Obama means an end to U.S. dominance and well-being.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
nimby, 10/11/2012 8:36:34 AM (No. 8925126)
Of course they do! He will have flexibility to do their bidding.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
kanphil, 10/11/2012 8:40:44 AM (No. 8925136)
The Russians did give us one piece of good advice--don't commit ground forces to combat in Afghanistan. Having spilled blood and squandered resources there for ten years, they knew the score and we should have heeded them. IMHO, we should have said to hell with worrying about collateral damage and bombed them until they hollered uncle. War is hell.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
rational, 10/11/2012 8:55:16 AM (No. 8925180)
I wonder if, during the foreign policy debate, there is a
delicate way to ask Obammy about what he meant when the
mic was hot asking that his message be forwarded to Putin,
regarding his post election "more flexibility" thingy that the
GOP should wrap around his skinny putrid neck????
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff, 10/11/2012 9:10:45 AM (No. 8925218)
I don't think the Russians see Barry so much as flexible as they do as malleable. He's putty in their hands. Romney would be a much tougher nut to crack.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Freeloader, 10/11/2012 9:23:58 AM (No. 8925246)
His poll numbers and popularity in The People's Democratic Republic of Korea and The Islamic Republic of Iran also remain unusually strong.
/s
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Scottyboy, 10/11/2012 9:34:42 AM (No. 8925275)
Great, next think you know the CPUSA will be suopporting him...........oh wait!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
FunOne, 10/11/2012 9:53:40 AM (No. 8925331)
Anyone who wants to successfully compete agains the USA should want Obama reelected.
It's like giving the robbers the combination to the safe.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
mickturn, 10/11/2012 10:01:11 AM (No. 8925349)
Of course, Communists always support each other, it's the Moscow/Bejing/Chicago/Havana/Korea Way.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
lylacat, 10/11/2012 10:18:49 AM (No. 8925425)
Well, of course they would; 0bama said he would give them what they want once he is reelected. 0bama was caught telling them he would be more "flexible," and 0bama did not know the mic was still on, and the whole world heard his sordid intentions. America be afraid.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bobgray2, 10/11/2012 10:34:08 AM (No. 8925483)
Of course they do. You always want your opponents to have the weakest, most ineffectual , leader possible. The Russians may not be our enemies, but they are most certainly our rivals.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
pgvoisin, 10/11/2012 11:07:54 AM (No. 8925610)
So who wants Obama re-elected?
Russia
Cuba
Venezuela
Japan
Europe
That is not a good list to have!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Japanorama, 10/11/2012 4:19:18 PM (No. 8926480)
Russia backs anything bad for America.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
TakeBackAmerica, 10/11/2012 4:27:28 PM (No. 8926508)
Do Obama supporters realize they're voting for the end of our republic?
That means they're all traitors.
And why does he still get any positive press?
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