[Washington Post] Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Wednesday that President B.O. was suffering from "some kind of mental aberration" for saying during a U.N. speech last month that Russia posed a global threat."It's sad to hear President B.O. say in an address at the U.N. that the threats and challenges facing humanity are, in this particular order: the Ebola virus, the Russian Federation, and only then the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
," Medvedev said during an interview that aired Wednesday on CNBC. "I don't want to dignify it with a response. It's sad. It's like some kind of mental aberration."
Medvedev offered his opinion of Obama's mental state in response to a question about whether it would be possible to "reset" the relationship between Washington and Moscow after a months-long standoff over Ukraine, during which the United States has sanctioned Russia's financial, defense, and oil and gas sectors, and Russia has banned all produce, meat, fish and dairy imports from the United States and the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
The idea harks back to 2009, when Medvedev and the B.O. regime both expressed a desire to "press the reset button" on relations between Russia and the United States, which had grown tense during the administrations of George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead.... (The photo op didn't go so well.)