The Right's New Hero

[Howey]

Step aside, Sarah. There's a new boy in town and the right loves him!

Note that late last month, just hours before Obama addressed the nation regarding Syria, Matt Drudge bizarrely tweeted that "Putin is the leader of the free world."
More recently, the Putin admiration society has been on full display all across the right-wing media landscape. On his radio show, Rush Limbaugh also seemed to side with Putin.... Limbaugh appeared to be impressed by the fact Russia had compiled a 100-page report blaming Syrian rebels for the chemical weapons attack, not Russia's longtime ally, President Bashar al-Assad. Limbaugh told his listeners: "Now, I don't know about you, but what does it feel like to have to agree with a former KGB agent?"

[ekg]

I admit I haven't been paying enough attention to all this Syria stuff.. but weren't these same people,like 2 weeks ago, ramming Obama for doing nothing about Assad? and now that he wants to do something it's all "it was the rebels, not innocent Assad"

[uselesslegs]

It's a weird thing. 

Romney talked of Mali, what was going on in Syria and a few other hotspots happening around the world...and the tone was one of caution and possible action, needing to build more warships, blah-blah.. As best as I remember.  He got quite the assload of votes and with that in mind, I would also assume those votes cast were done with the knowledge that Romney, as President, was most likely down with smacking that ban hammer around if need be.

Contrast that with Obama more or less echoing that these hotspots were things to eye cautiously, and that he wasn't a pussy and would do something if he had to, but he'd rather ere on the side of non-intervention if possible, because we're quite the friggin war weary nation.

Flash forward to today, most people (it seems) that cast a vote for Romney are against any kind of intervention, despite voting for someone who leaned towards intervention/engagement...and everyone who cast a vote for Obama because his tone suggested we don't need more engagements of the military, are also upset we're looking at intervention, because that's not what they voted for.

So I'm left laughing darkly, with the realization that the need to kick Obama in the nuts, over anything he's attached to or supports, outweighs any positions, that prior to this, seemed to agree with his move towards involvement, based on their votes for Romney.

The God warriors loathing of Obama is actually greater than their need to obliterate anything that says "Allah", under other circumstance where they'd jump at the chance....ESPECIALLY if it involves ACTUAL WMD's of the chemical variety. That shit sent them into the bonkers zone before...but now? "Eh, let's slow this down and talk about it a little." Wtf?

[Howey]

Only two replies? What's with you guys?

Here's even more on the guy Rush is now calling the Leader of the Free World. And it combines this thread with another one citing the right's love affair with a certain communist propaganda whore.

http://www.kiiitv.com/story/23416669/analysis-putin-scores-diplomatic-win-on-syria

Russians and Americans have been duking it out in the Twitter world over who's scoring more points in high-stakes diplomatic wrangling over Syria - U.S. President Barack Obama or Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Samantha Power, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations tweeted Thursday: "Three days ago there seemed no diplomatic way to hold Assad accountable. Threat of U.S. action finally brought Russia to the table."

In her Tweet, Margarita Simonyan, head of Russia's English-language television network RT, quipped: "If the Russian proposal on Syria works, Obama, as an honest man, has to give his Nobel Prize to Putin."

Taking Syria's chemical weapons out of government control and preventing another horrendous attack on civilians is too serious an issue to reduce to political one-upmanship.

But after Putin's bombshell opinion piece in the New York Times in which, among other things, he takes America to task for an "alarming" pattern of intervening in the internal conflicts of foreign countries, it's obvious something has shifted.

"It absolutely is a diplomatic win by Putin right now," Fiona Hill, expert on Putin and director of the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution, told CNN.

"If we think about this as judo, which is of course, Mr. Putin's favorite sport this is just one set of moves," she said. "And right now he's managed to get Obama off the mat, at least, and get the terms set down that play to his advantage."

[Susie Chutzpah]

I don't want to attack Syria, so if that makes me a Putin supporter, so be it.

Putin definitely looked like the Alpha dog compared to Owebama, but then again we are talking about a former KGB agent and a community agitator.

[ekg]

I don't want to attack Syria, so if that makes me a Putin supporter, so be it.

Putin definitely looked like the Alpha dog compared to Owebama, but then again we are talking about a former KGB agent and a community agitator.

ummm... yeah..

just so I can try and see it your way..

So Obama threatens to strike Syria... and after telling Putin that, Putin sits back and says "uh oh.. maybe this isn't a good idea"....So he calls Assad to let him know what's about to go down and they counter-offer Obama's strike with "So hey, what if we get them to not only admit they have chem weapons, but hell.. they'll give them up"...


and that's somehow an Obama-loss?  That somehow makes him 'weak'?

I mean, it seems to me Obama got everything he wanted and then some and without a single "shock" and/or "awe" bomb..he threatens hell-fire and Putin gets Assad to give up his WMD stash... but on Bullshit Mountain, that's somehow a weakness?

where is the loss? where is the weakness? what was the 'win' here if not getting WMD's out of Syria..

[Howey]

I just thought it's hilarious that the right, who've always accused the left of being...well, commies, are now bowing before someone who's...well, you know what.

[uselesslegs]

ummm... yeah..

just so I can try and see it your way..

So Obama threatens to strike Syria... and after telling Putin that, Putin sits back and says "uh oh.. maybe this isn't a good idea"....So he calls Assad to let him know what's about to go down and they counter-offer Obama's strike with "So hey, what if we get them to not only admit they have chem weapons, but hell.. they'll give them up"...


and that's somehow an Obama-loss?  That somehow makes him 'weak'?

I mean, it seems to me Obama got everything he wanted and then some and without a single "shock" and/or "awe" bomb..he threatens hell-fire and Putin gets Assad to give up his WMD stash... but on Bullshit Mountain, that's somehow a weakness?

where is the loss? where is the weakness? what was the 'win' here if not getting WMD's out of Syria..

If he made the world's most perfect Sundae, they'd complain about the bowl.

If he made the world's most perfect Sundae, inside a bowl perfectly designed to help preserve the cool temp. of the Sundae for as long as possible, they'd complain about the spoon.

If he made the world's most perfect Sundae, inside a bowl perfectly designed to help preserve the cool temp. of the Sundae for as long as possible, and used a spoon that's only purpose was to help get the perfect amount of Sundae with each scoop, they'd complain about the way he put it in his mouth.

Look...President Obama is not above critique and complaint, no President is.  There are quite a few ditties (and more) that we could (and have) disagreed with him about, and on...concerning policy, approach and politics in general.  The problem arises when critique and political complaint can no longer be discerned from bashing for bashing's sake.  The two become inextricably intertwined and one loses the ability to distinguish between treating your stepchild like shit, based on the shit lens you view them with, and legitimate items of discontent that merit your attention.

If EVERYTHING catches your attention negatively, then odds are you view the way they eat cereal and got a D in biology as exactly EQUAL in negative status in your mind.  We call this the "no win scenario."  Being able to find an issue with the way they fold their socks and catching them playing with matches hold the same level of concern/disdain for you...because you've gone bat-shit overboard...and everything is code red with that little fucker.  And now you have exacting standards or opinions that can never, ever be appeased...and even on their best day...you'll find something wrong.

Bravo..you've reached level horse cunt.

[ekg]

If he made the world's most perfect Sundae, they'd complain about the bowl.

If he made the world's most perfect Sundae, inside a bowl perfectly designed to help preserve the cool temp. of the Sundae for as long as possible, they'd complain about the spoon.

If he made the world's most perfect Sundae, inside a bowl perfectly designed to help preserve the cool temp. of the Sundae for as long as possible, and used a spoon that's only purpose was to help get the perfect amount of Sundae with each scoop, they'd complain about the way he put it in his mouth.

hehehehehehee.... I mean it's so G'damn true and hilarious and sad all at the same time..

the Right is seriously praising fucking Putin over Obama.. that's some hatred right there.. and not even the rational kind of hatred but the "I'm going to eat your face because the bath-salts are kicking in" kind of hated.. LOL

did you ever think you'd see the day?

I mean... wasn't it just a cpl years ago when Palin, sitting on her porch, could actually see the threat of Russia and Putin when he flies...... ya know.. over..her... 1st..

but now? They're throwing their own president under the bus to suck some Russian beef-cake cock..

Every single issue I wonder just how far they'll go... well, now they're in love with Putin... so who's next? Lil Kim Jong?

[Howey]

In case you haven't noticed, the answer is somewhere on the front page of this forum.

[uselesslegs]

So it appears, as the Navy Shipyard massacre was still in calamity mode, a Russian lawmaker Alexey Pushkov (head of the foreign affairs committee of Russia’s lower house of parliament) took a dig and whack on twitter...

"New shooting at the Navy headquarters in Washington -- Lone shooter and 7 corpses. No one is surprised. American exceptionalism."

and continued

"The USA should part with the notion of American exceptionalism. It contradicts the principles of equal rights and smells of political racism."

To which the U.S embassy in Moscow responded...

"What is exceptional here? Why use a tragedy for a set of political points?"

Shall we take bets as to which way Fox, Tea Party, and ultra-conservatives will pontificate on this?

I'm gonna bet they will find a way to take issue with Alexey AND still somehow make it President Obama's fault and or take issue with Alexey AND still bash Obama in the process.

It is literally impossible for them to be protective of or side with President Obama in any way.  This should be interesting.

[Howey]

Here's pics of both, side by side, from Drudge:

[Howey]

EKG can you fix the pics? My computers on the blitz again, having to use the phone