Comments on: 7/3 Pres. Obama Reminds Russia The Cold War Is Over (Tell Him That WE WON)

By: gsteinbacher

gsteinbacher — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:45:13 +0000

Has anyone else been watching the news conference in Russia? I feel very scared at the outcome, particulary that it seems to be a little quick and a little pre-planned.

It gives me the feeling that all of this was completed ahead of time (pre-planned), and they were just smoking and joking in the back room waiting for the time to release it all to us.

Is BHO maybe a little to cozy with his Russsian counter part, what else do we not know about him

By: mellie1

mellie1 — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:31:51 +0000

So Obama is going to Russia to kiss Puntin's a$$? He needs to man up and act like a LEADER!

By: sjgpa1

sjgpa1 — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:13:46 +0000

For eight years Bush never got this permission!

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia will grant President Barack Obama permission next week to ship U.S. weapons supplies across its territory, or through its airspace, en route to Afghanistan, sources on both sides told Reuters on Saturday.
The transit deal will open up an important corridor for the United States as it steps up its Afghan war against Taliban insurgents by sending in more troops. Routes via Pakistan have come under attack by militants.
"The agreement will include the transit of all U.S. goods, including military ones (to Afghanistan)," a senior Kremlin source told Reuters.
Medvedev has repeatedly said he is ready to widen cooperation with U.S.-led coalition and NATO forces in Afghanistan, though Moscow has ruled out sending any of its own troops to fight.
Moscow has also granted NATO members Germany, France and Spain the right to use Russian territory to transit military cargos to Afghanistan.
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUST...

By: atticus89dude

atticus89dude — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:40:41 +0000

Protecting your country is pointless when your leaders declare a war just because they don't agree with the opposing country's point of view.

Declare a war when the people want to a fight a war. Declare a war when it protects a America so we can avoid another Vietnam (I don't know how us going to Vietnam helped protect our borders…Vietnam ended up becoming a communist nation). Declare a war when you know we can win. Most Americas are under the belief that just because we're America, we can win any war we start…not true. Like you said, half the world hates us…but its because we stick our noses in places we shouldn't. It was either Jefferson or John Adams that said we should remain isolated and not get into world affairs..well, he had a point, because now we're the most hated country in the world.

By: lunarmanathome

lunarmanathome — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:00:12 +0000

I am amazed at the continuing mantra "old and outdated", that Obama only offers "the way forward". I don't believe that he knows that the Russians are doing what they are doing for their own national reasons, at times in the vein of a Soviet state. To attempt to minimize Putin is naive idiocy. To assume that their interests are the same as ours is worse. Witness the events in Goergia late last summer, the attempts to shut our acces to Afghanistan via norhtern airbases, the missile shield, etc. He has nothing to teach them, and has almost nothing to offer that wouldn't make us structurally weaker.

By: Louie_Valentine

Louie_Valentine — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:37:43 +0000

What do you think about Obama discussing the idea of bypassing the Senate's Constitutional role in treaty ratification because he cannot work out a new one with Russia as easily as he had hoped?

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/07/u...

By: Ratoes

Ratoes — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:37:05 +0000

International conflict is, what is definitely going to happen.

By: Jerseygal

Jerseygal — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:26:04 +0000

Good one! I think BH0 has met his match with Putin. I pray that the cost to Americans is not in blood and lives lost.

By: Zymogene

Zymogene — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:23:21 +0000

The same "friends" who are shoving us under the bus, like India and all? I always laugh when we talk about un-fairness across the globe and how if one group or another gets into power, they will be SOOO DIFFERENT……and they become exactly the same thing they hate, when they are rulers of the club.

By: Zymogene

Zymogene — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:20:22 +0000

LOL….It takes a con to know a con and no matter how good you think you are….there's always someone out there who's better. In all honesty, I look at Putin as the parent and Obama as the smart assed teenager who knows it all. I believe he secretely chuckles at his blatent ignorance.