It was during a recent appearance on that poor imitation of a political/commentary television show, "Face the Nation," that our stellar vice president, "Slow Joe" Biden stated that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is “stuck in a Cold War mentality” when it comes to working with Russia. Biden defended President Barack Obama’s “open microphone” remark to his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, last week, and focused on Romney’s reaction. The former Massachusetts governor said last week that Russia was, “without question, our number-one geopolitical foe.” “He acts like he thinks the Cold War’s still on,” Biden said. “I don’t know where he’s been.” I might add here, if it were up to morons like Biden, the "Cold War" to which he refers would either still be going on or it would have been the U.S.S.R. who would have been victorious instead of the U.S. which would have been their preferred outcome.
I'm sure most of us, by now, have all seen how it was that microphones on March 26 recorded Barry "Almighty" asking Medvedev to let Russian President-elect Vladimir Putin know that he needed to “give me space” to deal with objections to the U.S.’s missile-defense plan. “This is my last election, and after my election I have more flexibility,” Barry told his buddy Dmitry. “I understand,” Medvedev replied in English, adding that he would “transmit this information to Vladimir.” In his interview with CBS, taped March 29 and broadcast yesterday April Fools Day, Biden said that Barry “just stated the obvious” and that “it’s going to be difficult” to work with Congress on further reductions of the U.S. nuclear arsenal between now and the November elections. Boy, I sure am glad we had old "Slow Joe" there to interpret for us what Barry meant. For a second there I was worried Barry was throwing us under the bus.
Romney, who has been criticized by his Republican rivals for shifting positions, has accused Barry of having a hidden agenda for his second term, calling the president’s words “alarming and troubling.” “This is no time for our president to be pulling his punches with the American people,” he said at a campaign stop in California. In an March 26 interview with CNN, after Obama’s comment to Medvedev was reported, Romney said that Russia was, “without question, our number-one geopolitical foe.” Biden told CBS that Russia was helping the United States get supplies to troops in Afghanistan and would increase oil supplies to Europe if there was an oil shutdown in the Gulf. “This is not 1956,” Biden said. “It exposes how little the governor knows about foreign policy.” Singling a similar tune to Biden's, last week Medvedev said that Romney’s description of Russia as his country’s enemy “smacks of Hollywood.”
Sounding like someone straight out of the Democrat Party, Medvedev stated to reporters on March 27 at the conclusion of a two-day nuclear security summit in Seoul, that the Republican candidates should “use their brains and check the clock,” refraining from obsolete attitudes. Now it goes without question that the Russians would much rather deal with impotent Democrats than with nearly any Republican who would be much more apt to take a harder line toward enemies of this country, of which Russia is undoubtedly one. No matter whose definition you choose to use, Russia is not to be considered a "friend" of this country. And it is nothing but foolish to consider them as being such. And while there may have been an end to the "Cold War" there has never been an end to the level of hostility directed at this country by what used to be the Soviet Union. And to pretend that there has been, is extremely dangerous.
Personally speaking, when considering who it is that I would want to see as my president, I'm much more comfortable with someone who possesses a much better grasp of the situation and is much more attuned to how it is that the world presently exists. And I appreciate the honesty in presenting a much more accurate assessment regarding the relationship between these two countries. And therefore, I think in that regard, Romney is dead on. I would also prefer to have as my president a man who maintains a certain level of distrust and one who is more than a just little leery of past adversaries. To my way of thinking it is always better to be safe than sorry and the Russians, whether it was during the "Cold War" or today, have never been worthy of any significant level of trust. And to ignore that fact, as does our current White House duo, does not make it any less real. But that is how Democrats operate, they ignore the dangers in hopes that they’ll simply go away.
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