Remember when the wingnuts were worshipping Putin?

[hollowdweller]

Because he was making Obama sort of look bad??

Looks like Putin took his eye off the ball and got punked.

[doc03]

1. I remember this last summer when Faux News and all their brainwashed

dimwits were wanting to ship our gas over to Europe to put the hurts on Putin. Looks like the sanctions and the market took care of it.

[CJCRANE]

2. Romney said Russia was our biggest geopolitical foe

in one of the 2012 election debates. President Obama just laughed at him. Now he agrees with Romney.

However the Tea Partiers love them some Putin.He symbolizes all their dreams come true.

[1StrongBlackMan]

10. How do you get to President Obama agreeing with Romney on Russia? n/t

[CJCRANE]

11. Who is our No. 1 geopolitical foe at the moment? nt

[1StrongBlackMan]

12. I get the refernce; but, not how ...

President Obama, now, agrees with Romney.

[CJCRANE]

13. They're now on the same page

in their attitude to Russia.

Did you see Obama's speech at the UN where he said that Russia was the greatest threat in the world, worse than Ebola or ISIL?

[hollowdweller]

14. no

Link?

[CJCRANE]

15. IIRC it was the one in September.

I'm on a smartphone right now so not easy to get a link. But it was a big speech, it should be easy to find.

[1StrongBlackMan]

16. You mean this speech? ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/full-text-of-president-obamas-2014-address-to-the-united-nations-general-assembly/2014/09/24/88889e46-43f4-11e4-b437-1a7368204804_story.html

I think you might want to read it ... I don't think it approaches what you claim.

[CJCRANE]

17. I watched it live thanks. nt

[1StrongBlackMan]

18. Maybe, you can point to the part of the speech ...

that supports your claim.

I read it three times and could find anything approaching your claim.

Thanks.

[CJCRANE]

19. My mistake.He mentioned Ebola then Russia

then ISIS.

[1StrongBlackMan]

20. He mentioned all three and several more things ...

that deserved the worlds (urgent) attention.

That is far, far, far from your claim.

[CJCRANE]

21. He included Russia in the same breath

as two of the worst things in the world.

How do you think the Russians felt about that.

Plus he basically compared them to the Nazis.

[1StrongBlackMan]

22. Okay ...

My Romney-support translator must be on the blink.

[CJCRANE]

23. I don't want to push the point

you're not going to see it but others might.

IMO something drastic changed in President Obama's foreign policy between his first term and second term. Many will say that events just happened but I think there's more to it than that. Perhaps I'm in the minority here on DU with that opinion.

[brush]

26. Putin annexing Crimea and invading Ukraine happened. nt

[CJCRANE]

27. What happened before that?

Who were the snipers in Maidan Square?

[Sunlei]

32. foe to his gazprom stocks lol

thank god the white horse won forever

[joshcryer]

33. Russia and China are at the top of any lists.

Romney was scaremongering at the time. Russia didn't become relevant until it annexed Crimea. And then, it became clear that their relevancy is meager at best, given how utterly incompetent Putin has been since.

[Igel]

3. The fall in oil revenues will wind up punking the US, too.

Looks good now, but most politicians are short-term thinkers because they need to face the next election with short-term-thinking voters.

Putin has some good points. He has many bad points. Those who celebrated Putin as "all good" were few and far between, to be honest--but making fun of them or just those that refuse to use a 3-foot-wide brush for detail work for letting facts reset their attitudes is a foolish proposition. It makes us feel good but makes it less likely that facts will get in the way of changing minds in the future. In short, it's another short-term thinking ploy.

This, in a world that shows no signs of coming to an end by late spring 2015.

[hollowdweller]

5. Way to sound like a Republican.

IIRC the drop in oil prices helped the economy during Reagan.

Will be better than the payroll tax cut here. Saving me 80 bucks a month right now.

[oldandhappy]

4. I remember FN folk who wanted Putin as our pres.

Where are they now??!!

[Hassin Bin Sober]

7. Yep. "He wrestles bears and Obama wears mom jeans"

Maybe he should wrestle his imploding economy.

[lastlib]

6. I remember when GWB looked into his eyes and saw his soul.......

Puppy love at first sight.......

[Rozlee]

24. Yeah, I saw a snarky cartoon on Bartcop once that said that after Bush looked into Putin's eyes...

Putin looked into Bush's ears and saw light at the other end.

[lastlib]

29. Hahahahaha!!

[MADem]

8. Hell, there were people on this board worshipping the Bear Rider.

And mocking the whole ten dimensional chess meme....

Heh.

[stevenleser]

31. Yep, their pro-Putin posts seem to have dwindled. I wonder why?

I'm waiting for them to claim Victoria Nuland herself went to Saudi Arabia and turned the spigots there from "Medium" to "High".

[hrmjustin]

9. I remember a poster who told me that LGBT rights had to wait because it was more important

that Putin have the trust of the people to be president.

[Behind the Aegis]

25. the wingnuts?

More than they have provided cover for this POS.

[66 dmhlt]

28. Well, of course Wingnuts luvs them some Putin ...

Why wouldn't they? They remind them so much of Dubya et al

He tanked their nation's economy, he started an illegal war against a sovereign nation and he has an agenda against gays.

[leftynyc]

30. And they think leadership

means swinging your dick around.