If the aide was speaking the true intent, its deja vu all over gain.

Instead of it being 2008, its like 1976 and we now have Carter II the sequel.

The Kremlin roars and America turns tail. Maybe the Russians can have an Olympics or something so we can show then how tough we are by not showing up.

Can we get through all of the Bush Administration before Mr. President-elect starts making policy?

And what is President Bush doing right now? Why is he acting like it’s after Inauguration Day already? It’s really quite disheartening to watch him behave like he can’t wait to leave.

Often ends by tripping over your own feet.

You mean The naive One was jive talking the other countries on foreign policy? Not something you want to do when other countries citizen’s lives might hang on the balance.

Reject Obamunism.

I know that is not the popular take, but hear me out – I know I have said this before and you are probably tired of reading it, but the reason Obama can throw his past associations under the bus so easily is because they were an easy conduit to power and he feels no genuine allegiance to them.

I do not believe he is idealistically aligned with radicals, but saw them as a previously untapped source of power. As long as he remained blank and mysterious with a bit of Utopianism thrown in everyone could project anything on to him, including us.

I think he is a power tripper plain and simple. He will do whatever he needs to do to protect his power, and that includes protecting the US power in the world. And the media will continue to play along, because they are so enamored of him. Just wait and see, the first punk to start trouble to test him is going to get a can of whoop-a$$ opened on them. THAT was what Biden meant when he said that people would not understand and be upset, but that they would have to trust. He wasn’t warning about weakness, which is what the pacifists want, he was warning about the “spine of steel” that the Code Pinks of his party were going to have to swallow.

I rather doubt, especially since he chose Rahm Emanuel, that he is going to play softball on the world scene. Because that would require giving up and sharing some of his power, and that will not happen.

Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength

This is a very, very disturbing development. Poland has been one of the US’s stalwart allies since September 11, for which we made certain specific commitments. Duplicity does not create respect amongst our allies, Senator Obama.

It is not a stretch to suggest that you have had a rough first four days. Perhaps, it is time that you call your transition team together and remind them of a simple adage: Loose lips sink ships. If you and your team continue on your current path, this will be the shortest election honeymoon in American history.

Destroying alliances before you’re actually President. Hmmm. Smooth move, Senator Obama.

You are not our President now, Senator Obama. You do not direct American foreign policy now, Senator Obama.

Before destroying America’s growing, mutually beneficial and important relationship with Poland, perhaps your “team” should keep their mouths shut.

President Obama = It’s morning in the Soviet Union

… means in the Obama lexicon? Screwing the Poles (one of our most loyal allies), appeasing the Russians, and shrugging off promises made. It didn’t take long for him to show his true colors.

Geez, this didn’t take long. I would have expected Obama to wait until at least January 20 before he waved the proverbial white-flag-of-surrender.

I wonder how much of the progress in the nation’s missile defense system will be reversed by Obama. One of the best decisions Bush ever made- withdrawal from the ABM treaty. And guess who gets to be president when we may actually need missile defense in defense of our armed forces and our allies?

Here’s the first group of the soon to be disillusioned masses that we can peel off in 2010 and 2012. Lets strt working on them now.

During the primary and general election we heard language full of comments like “I’ve been crystal clear on this” or “like I’ve always said.” The flip-flops occurred during the same month, the same week and even the same day. Some of who were listening wondered what he really believed.

This is a man who wants it both ways.

John Kerry: “I was for it before I was against it.”

Poland has always been one of the countries most hated by the left- for its anti-communist passion, its conservative Catholic heritage, and its unapolagetic pro-Americanism.

Poland will very quickly get a nice view of the bottom of the bus as soon as the Obama administration gets up and running.

Obama is already speaking to Medeved and the Oval office isn’t even vacant. I posit their dialogue includes the word “comrade” and plenty of guffaws coming from both sides.

Iraq is now virtually begging us not to leave.

Hamas continues to gratuitously fire rockets at Israel with relative impunity.

Iran is ramping up nuclear production.

60 million people can’t be wrong, can they? The press and Obama sold our country a proverbial Brooklyn Bridge. You wanted “change”? Buckle up folks.

This is the problem with having 300 foreign policy advisors and taking every side of an issue (think NAFTA, etc…) during the campaign.

This was an inartful statement. It signals weakness to the Russians and forces the Poles to take a more subservient position to them.

Just as with the economy, uncertainty is poison in these matters.

The spokesperson should have deferred to the sitting president without taking a position the way Obama rightfully did on Iran.

the election I decided that it will not be the USA I feel sorry for, after all we the people elected this excuse for an empty suit.
No, the people I will feel sorry for are the people of:
Ukraine
Georgia
Poland
Israel

On election day, the Ace of Spades website posted a picture of two Iraqi women, with purple-stained fingers showing they had voted in an election.

It was a “Get Out The Vote” message, noting that whatever hardships or inconveniences YOU may experience by voting, “These women literally risked their lives to vote”.

My first reaction to that was, “And THE ONE can hardly wait to sell them out”.

One of my biggest worries about Obama is that his rhetoric on Iraq, and rumored comments about Israel, show an almost casual willingness to sell out allies when convenient.

A commenter on another blog asked, “Who appointed us to be their guardians? Why is it America’s job to make sure they are safe?”

I feel the answer is we’d rather not have the entire world as a nuclear-armed camp, based on the idea that the more countries with these things, the greater the chance that some will eventually be used.

Our alliances with these countries are not out of the goodness of our heart, but for our own best interests. Sell one out, and you can bet the others will sure take notice.

It seemed that commenter was saying, “To hell with them, let them take care of themselves!”

Well, the problem there is they might do exactly that, and we might be less than thrilled with the results.

If countries under threat (Taiwan, maybe South Korea, even Japan) think our word is no longer any good, they’ll almost certainly feel the need for self-sufficiency in nuclear arms as the only real deterrent to someone like China. And note, those countries ALL have the necessary economic, industrial and technical wherewithal to go nuclear. All they need do is make the decision.

Others, in the Middle East will want them to deter Iran. How about Saudi Arabia and Egypt? Maybe Libya decides that abandoning their efforts was a mistake. THOSE countries may lack the technology, but they can certainly finance it.

It could just go on and on.

THAT, I feel, would be a very likely consequence of us deciding to just disengage ourselves from these countries.

We’ve tried successfully, and for a long time, to convince others that they did not need them, because WE would provide the protection of a nuclear umbrella.

When they decide they can’t count on us, the whole thing unravels.

If that commenter gets his wish, and they DO take care of themselves, it could get real interesting for us as well.

Seeing that we also reside on the same planet, I think it almost impossible we would remain unaffected.

So, standing up for our allies is not merely a nice thing to do; it makes the hardest kind of common sense.

Simply put, we protect others in order to protect ourselves.

Abandoning them, selling them out, would be an unbelievably short-sighted (as in STUPID) thing to do, and would hurt us more in the long run. No one would trust an agreement with us; and why should they, given such a record?

Instead of being worth anything, our word would only be noise.

And that would be tragic, because WE set its’ value, by our actions.

You guys are scaring me. I had about deluded myself into believing that he would not govern as he is, but rather as he would need to be in order to get re-elected.

But with you guys’ comments, I’m reminded of many of the reasons I voted against him. I sure hope we’re wrong.

Proper grammar saves lives.

Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.

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In my opinion, the most important part of the statement/spin is “he supports deploying a missle defense system when the techonology is PROVED TO BE WORKABLE.” So what does that mean? that we are building something that hasn’t been tested? I think not. It’s a way out.

When I consider what Obama said in reply to the Russia/Georgia conflict- that Georgia needed to practice restraint- there’s your answer. He will talk nice to Russia, and he will HOPE to CHANGE their evil minds.