Putin Cracks: Suddenly Wants To Hold Hands And Sing

Wow! I wonder how "We are the world" sounds in Ruskie? I just hope he doesn't steal "The One's" watch. I'd hate for him to miss his big speech in a couple weeks. Ha!

Comments

[Fred Beloit]

Obama blunders again according to the AP:
"Obama thinks the U.N. Security Council should pass a resolution calling for an immediate end to the violence. He also thinks a U.N. mediator should join efforts to try to end the fighting. a0735
(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)"

(1) Russia holds veto power in the Security Council. No such resolution is possible. This is another demonstration of Obama's gaps in knowledge (58 states?).
(2) A U.N. mediator??? This is just laughable. Maybe the U.N. could mediate some corruption and incompetence for all the world to marvel at.

[Spartan112]

Is this any different than republicans in congress claiming responsibility for lower gas prices because they "talked" about offshore drilling?

[seekeronos]

How about we mind our own business, and let the Russkies and the Georgians sort out their own business (although if we could profit from some arms sales and providing intelligence to the Georgians, that might be a good way to soften up the Russkies)...

Let the Russkies tire themselves out at being regional policeman for a while; we should be done with our repeated going at it for once.

[Fred Beloit]

Careful, seek, that's what many Brits and Amis said about Germany when HERR SCHICKELGRUBER started to gobble up Europe one bite at a time.

[SacTownMan]

The great "Uniter" puts his advanced Community Organizer skills to work and puts the smack down on Putin.

This guy will claim just about anything through his surrogates. It's like watching "Forrest Gump".

And for our most recent Sock Puppet Sparky,

The precipitating event that started oil prices going down was President Bush lifting the White House ban on off-shore drilling. The price of oil is driven by market conditions and imagine if congress were to send the signal to the oil markets that America is serious about increasing domestic production.

If Barry's buddy from the video were asked he would claim that the dramatic drop in the price of oil was in fact a result of Barry's public service moment where he claimed that checking my tires and doing a tune-up were equal to the potential increased domestic production proposed by the Republicans. You know Republicans, they're the ones that want to increase supply to bring down the price and reduce our dependance on foreign oil instead of "saving the world" like ole' Bug Eyes.

My tires on my 2002 Ford F-150 truck are filled with nitrogen gas instead of ambient air. This keeps the tire pressure consistant and deters the rubber breaking down. My tires are regularly rotated and sorry Barry but for an Argrula eater like yourself maybe you don't realize that modern cars go 100,000 before they need tuneups and with my 39,000 miles it will be some time off. I am suprised he didn't mention replacing the air filter and asking those pesky, bitter, clingy, fat, middle American white folks to shed a few pounds.

[Spartan112]

"How about we mind our own business, and let the Russkies and the Georgians sort out their own business (although if we could profit from some arms sales and providing intelligence to the Georgians, that might be a good way to soften up the Russkies)...

Let the Russkies tire themselves out at being regional policeman for a while; we should be done with our repeated going at it for once."

Seek c'mon, you know this is about control of oil in the region right? This was a convenient excuse for going into Georgia. They couldn't care less about stability in the region.

[seekeronos]

"--- Careful, seek, that's what many Brits and Amis said about Germany when HERR SCHICKELGRUBER started to gobble up Europe one bite at a time. ---"

Nice dodge on the Godwin's item, there. :)

I hardly see Medvedev or Putin as being SCHICKELGRUBERs or Hindenburgs. Funny thing you mention HERR SCHICKELGRUBER, as he was as much of an out-of-towner to German politics (being originally a native of Vienna, AT) as ol' "Uncle Joe" Stalin was to Russia (being a native son of Gori, in what is currently, but maybe soon not to be anymore, Georgia).

In my eyes, the Russian-Georgian dispute over the Russophones in Abkhazia and So. Ossetia are more akin to the Anschluß of Austria and Germany, or perhaps even more, the occupation of the Sudentenland by the "Friends of HERR SCHICKELGRUBER" party.

But unlike Czechoslovakia (a forced union at gunpoint) or Austria (an uncomfortable but not altogether rejected union) we have had no small amount of involvement in Georgia, cultivating it for NATO membership, training her soldiers, giving them weapons, and as Spartan indicates, scoping out the oil situation.

I am really unsure of what we could have to gain by opening up another war front, one that could easily ignite and expand into a classical, hot world war by dragging in the full weight of Russian military might, and possibly Red China too, who are linked together by the Shanghai Cooperative pact.

I am not sure that we could count on the Euro members of NATO to play along either, especially with GAZPROM sitting at the "kill switch" to the pipeline into Europe.

Now an even more perverse thought comes to mind - something along the lines of "we'll let you (Russia) have your way with Georgia, if you butt out our upcoming October Surprise actions in Iran"... which for Georgians, may be a terrible sacrifice for them to face.

I'd much rather see us meet our own interests with less bloodshed, and perhaps novel solutions for energy sooner than provoke the Russian Bear with her ample supply of nukes.