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The Increasingly Awkward Conservative Crush on PutinMad about Vlad!
BY ISAAC CHOTINER at the New Republic
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116859/putin-envy-and-american-conservatives
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The reason for all this ancient history is the situation today in Ukraine, where an autocratic Russian leader who exudes manly vibes has ordered his armed forces into Crimea. It is unclear whether this move on Russia's part will prove successful, but, amidst uncertaintly among western leaders over what to do, there has arisen a new strain of the Burnham syndrome. Conservatives don't just see the west and President Obama as weak; they also seem envious of Putin's bullying. "There is something odd," Benjamin Wallace-Wells wrote in New York magazine, "about commentators who denounce Putin in the strongest terms and yet pine for a more Putin-like figure in the White House."
Sarah Palin, for example, said this last night to Sean Hannity:
Well, yes, especially under the commander-in-chief that we have today because Obama's -- the perception of him and his potency across the world is one of such weakness. And you know, look, people are looking at Putin as one who wrestles bears and drills for oil. They look at our president as one who wears mom jeans and equivocates and bloviates. We are not exercising that peace through strength that only can be brought to you courtesy of the red, white and blue, that only a strengthened United States military can do.
Put aside the syntax for a moment and ask: is there not a bit of envy here? Isn't Palin very clearly desirous of a tough-guy president who wrestles bears and drills for oil? (The swooning over Bush's landing on that aircraft carrier was a telling sign.) Now read Rush Limbaugh:
In fact, Putinready for this?postponed the Oscar telecast last night. He didn't want his own population distracted. He wanted his own population knowing full well what he was doing, and he wanted them celebrating him. They weren't distracted. We were.
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applegrove
(118,006 posts)RKP5637
(67,030 posts)own shadows. I think of them as hollow people.
applegrove
(118,006 posts)and aide the 1% has hollowed out their insides. Hollow people always have to attach themselves to something greater to feel complete.
Mike Nelson
(9,903 posts)They seem to agree on most issues!
bemildred
(90,061 posts)Another mark of the split in the Conservative cause.
And that's because the Teajadis are after Obama, and the Neocons are after Iran and Syria.
Cha
(295,899 posts)tularetom
(23,664 posts)They all want a dictator but they all think he won't dictate to them.
bluestate10
(10,942 posts)anticipation if Putin stood at any Washington landmark with his shirt off. Republican's man and woman crush on Putin is becoming unseemly.
jimlup
(7,968 posts)of a "weak" US president is part of their own self serving mythology.
These people are so stuck in their own shit. I heard one guy at work reminding everyone that Sarah Palin "predicted" the invasion back in her debate with Joe Biden in '08. The Republicans can't ever see beyond their own partisanship. They would like very much for their false Reagan world view to be true and they can't interpret the world on any other terms.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)left.
OregonBlue
(7,744 posts)Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)anyone who is an adversary of Obama, end of story. Their ODS has become so intense that they are now worshiping a former Communist! I'll bet that they'd even be willing to give me $1M if I filmed myself on YouTube or somewhere, making up some dumb disses of the President.
africanadian
(92 posts)In the late 1980s, Col. Peters wrote...
...which is a fictional account of a Soviet invasion of West Germany, which the USSR ends up winning, forcing America to retreat to positions west of the Rhine.
I read that book, and it is blatantly obvious that Peters is very sympathetic to the Russians. Thus, when he claims in the above video that he doesn't like Putin, but then proceeds to praise him, well, suffice it to say this did not surprise me.