Remember how Obama and his equally clueless media allies derided Mitt Romney for naming Russia as a top geopolitical foe? Remember the clueless Obama badgering Romney with preschool taunts like, “The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back?” during a presidential debate? Mitt Romney knew what he was talking about. Barack Obama did not. Obama twice managed to secure electoral victory against far better informed people than himself, given that 2008 vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin foresaw a Russian move on the Ukraine as a consequence of then-Senator Obama’s reaction of “indecision and moral equivalence” to similar Russian action in Georgia. As ABC News put it on Sunday, “Sarah Palin may be having a bragging-rights moment.” Palin herself had a bit of fun with the Left’s nasty pop-culture caricature of her on Facebook, writing “Yes, I could see this one from Alaska.” The point is that Romney and Palin understood something like the current crisis was possible, and they understood the reasons why. Barack Obama didn’t. Everything transpiring over the past week was utterly inconceivable to him. The Administration’s response made it clear they have been totally blindsided; as Mike Rogers put it, they didn’t even understand what game they were playing. Fumbling half-measures continue even as 6,000 Russian air and naval forces disarm Ukrainian troops in the Crimea, lay siege to Ukrainian military bases, and literally pull out shovels to dig in for the next play. A key element of the Obama mindset is his conviction that every day brings him a clean slate. His domestic media allies and loyal followers never hold him accountable for anything he said more than two days ago. He has never been made to accept responsibility for a single thing he’s done in five years of occupying the White House. Obama is a parody of the fast-talking politician who thinks chumps are at fault for believing campaign promises, not the hucksters who make them. Consequently, he doesn’t understand how his foreign policy disasters snowball. He doesn’t get why his actions in Egypt influenced the resolution of Syria, or how the fallout from Syria leaves him looking impotent and foolish as Putin rolls through the Crimea. That’s why he didn’t understand Sarah Palin’s point about how weakness transmitted over George would make the Russians feel their oats today. How could anyone possibly remember anything Barack Obama said six years ago, much less use his obsolete remarks to predict his future behavior? He’s waiting for friendly media to give him the kind of amnesia “reset” he gets after every domestic policy disaster. humanevents/2014/03/03/putin-plays-chess-while-obama-plays-marbles/
Posted on: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 00:29:59 +0000
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