MistyTiger wrote:@stephen50right
[quote=”stephen50right”]Come on now, you have to admit in hindsight, that Obama did not have any discernible talent to be an effective president. Domestically he stumbled around for eight years. Internationally he was just lost in space, no clue whatsoever what to do. Early on he did the American apology tour and promoted Islam, then he had nothing left except for his big splash with Cuba.
No discernible talent? How is this…he got through 8 years without making the Japanese fearful that North Korea would aim nuclear missiles at them. Did you hear that little Japanese kids at recess were forced to take part in a nuclear missile drill? Is this how a good diplomatic president does things? Trump has managed within 100 days to get under Kim Jong Un’s skin as well as angering Great Britain over his baseless claim that the GCHQ helped Obama to engage in the wiretapping of Trump. And Merkel is planning to set in motion tariffs on US imports to Germany if the US is not attentive to her country’s demands. I work for a company that does business with a German company and this could hurt many US companies if a tariff is put in place. It would hurt profits and possibly, could result in firings due to lower sales numbers.
How to effectively deal with Putin? He allows his people to hack into US networks and servers. Is he cooperating with us to try to end the cyber madness? I have never heard of any opposition coming from the Kremlin. I think he finds it amusing.
He also does not want to become the US lapdog like Tony Blair became to Bush. Russians are a proud people. They do what they want to do.
Well, already Trump has outdone himself by causing more international outrage than Obama did in 8 years. Gosh, what an accomplishment! He could win a title in the Guinness Book of World Records for that!
Americans really need insurance coverage and for food prices to come down. Most of us little people do not really care about Russia, to be honest. We are all too busy counting our wages and bemoaning the last payment at the gas pump. Prices are too high. I remember a gallon was $1.33 during Bill Clinton’s presidency, that was nice.[/quote]
<<< He (Putin) also does not want to become the US lapdog like Tony Blair became to Bush. >>>
Thank you for acknowledging, perhaps inadvertently, an important point of the article. Bush sort of tried the lap dog thing with Putin as well, in a different way of course because it was a different situation, but it was a condescending manner for sure. Trump is not like that...and please don't bring up the Rosie O'Donnell spat and other snide comments that Trump makes sometimes, that would not be a valid analogy as to how Trump behaves with 99.99% of everyone else. Even his political opponents say that Trump is a perfect gentleman in meetings, dinners, etc.
Yes, Trump is stirring things up a bit, putting America first, and not allowing other countries to walk all over us. If you wish to call that an "international outrage" well then that's your prerogative. I call it being a smart patriot and strong leader.
And please stop with the liberal nonsense of "Most of us little people do not really care about Russia." I'm not going to go back and read your posts, but I would venture to say when Obama went to Cuba, you were likely quite ecstatic about it, right? Well, Cuba is certainly not even remotely close in importance to America as is Russia, for good or bad.