Drudge is leading with Obama’s revealing open mike chat with outgoing Russian President Medvedev. Here’s the whole convo, courtesy of abcnews:
President Obama: On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved but it’s important for him to give me space.
President Medvedev: Yeah, I understand. I understand your message about space. Space for you…
President Obama: This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility.
President Medvedev: I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir.
Taking the president’s last statement at face value, it’s little more than an admission of naked truth. After his re-election, he will have more flexibility. That’s why many Americans don’t want to see him re-elected. Many enough? Who knows.
But the Obama whisper—like his previous open mike chat with French President Sarkozy letting on that he can’t stand Israeli PM Netanyahu—tells us more. Here are five lessons about the real etch-a-sketch president:
1. The Bibi-hating, Iran-failing, American-decline embracing Obama is not the real Obama. The real Obama is much worse.
2. Still, this Obama has no problem in allowing the same Russians who stole their latest election to think that he too lies to the American people in order to get reelected.
3. He has no intention of keeping his missile defense deal with Congress.
4. He is totally cool with the farce of Russian democracy, something Medvedev will also likely “tell Vladimir.”
5. He will say anything and work with anyone to further his reelection.
I think this shows how desperate right wingers are to take things the President says out of context. Obviously the President has to deal with all kinds of crazyness during the election and obviously he will be more flexible after beating Mitt “Etch A Sketch” Romney this fall. There’s really no news here. Just another desperate attempt by the right wingers to drag Obama through the mud.
How close does the POTUS have to get to the definition before he crosses over?
trea•son [tree-zuhn]
noun
1. the offense of acting to overthrow one’s government or toharm or kill its sovereign.
2. a violation of allegiance to one’s sovereign or to one’s state.
3. the betrayal of a trust or confidence; breach of faith;treachery.
There is NO context that would make this right other than he was playing RISK with Medvedev. He is telling a foreign leader that he is willing to do make a deal after the election that he cannot discuss before the election. In other words he is trying to market himself as one president and intends to serve (or rule) as something completely different.
Obama vincendus est.
Chocolate Chips complains that “Right wingers” are taking Obama’s comments out of context. On the contrary. The problem IS the context of his comments. How much more “context” is needed? The subject matter was missile defence. The person Obama is speaking to is a Russian political leader who reports to Putin HIS boss, and in this context he says “give me some space this year because after my re-election I will be more flexible”. What other context does he need? Perhaps a guide book. The problem with Dems is a lack of principle. If Bush some other Republican president was caught saying something similarly revealing to a geopolitical enemy of the US would he be whining about “context”??