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2014-03-01 Government

Russia Invades Ukraine, Obama Declares Happy Hour

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Posted by Besoeker 2014-03-01 07:53|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Anschluss - once is a tragedy, twice is a farce.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-03-01 12:54|| 2014-03-01 12:54|| Front Page Top

Less than .00123 percent chance of brain freeze.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-03-01 13:52|| 2014-03-01 13:52|| Front Page Top

Posted by JohnQC 2014-03-01 16:28|| 2014-03-01 16:28|| Front Page Top

#4 After issuing stern warnings to Russia not to invade Crimea, the administration, confronted with the actual presence of Russian troops on the ground, philosophized about whether it was really an invasion, suggesting that a more apt term might be an uncontested arrival.

Might as well be a declaration of happy hour. Seems that they have had happy hour for about 5-1/2 years (sarc). The only thing this administration is good for is masking the obvious and creating euphemisms such as Janet Napolitano's. She wouldnt use the word terrorists but instead said In my speech, although I did not use the word terrorism, I referred to man-caused disasters.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-03-01 16:30|| 2014-03-01 16:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Maybe he is happy --- independent Ukraine would suck US funds like a black hole.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-03-01 16:30|| 2014-03-01 16:30|| Front Page Top

#6 O's Nat'l Security Team meets. Zero skips it. Susan Rice says the tensions were caused by an internet video

Posted by Frank G 2014-03-01 18:19|| 2014-03-01 18:19|| Front Page Top

#7 O's Nat'l Security Team meets. Zero skips it.

This is both astonishing and unsurprising at the same time. I'm just gonna go sit in the sinktrap before my mouth gets me in trouble.

Posted by SteveS 2014-03-01 19:44|| 2014-03-01 19:44|| Front Page Top

#8 Obama is an amateur going against world champions on the world stage. Putin has been playing rope a dope with Obumble since 2008 and now it is time for the knockout.

Obama is way... way... way out of his league and the world will pay for it.

Posted by DarthVader 2014-03-01 19:54|| 2014-03-01 19:54|| Front Page Top

#9 Unfortunately both O-BumblingFool and his sidekick the Fawning Media still think they are the cock of the walk on the international diplomatic scene. That all he has to do is talk sternly and shake his whittle ~~pecker~~ finger at them and they will straighten up and behave.

They are going to get a lot of people killed.
Some of them know this - but simply don't care.

Posted by CrazyFool 2014-03-01 20:23|| 2014-03-01 20:23|| Front Page Top

#10 I feel at this stage shooting is inevitable and that will roil the financial markets, and that's only the beginning. This will reverberate for years.

Posted by phil_b 2014-03-01 20:24|| 2014-03-01 20:24|| Front Page Top

#11 I can't believe it!

He skips the NSC briefing on the Ukraine situation?

And lets that air-head Rice brief him later?

Oh sweet mercy, it is even worse than I thought.

I thought he was an empty suit hiding under his desk in the oval office...but he's worse. If Bush had missed a NSC briefing the MSM would have been howling for his head.

We'll probably find out he bet the bank on Russian natural gas futures...

Posted by Bill Clinton 2014-03-01 22:41|| 2014-03-01 22:41|| Front Page Top

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