by Bob Quasius
At a meeting with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev, Obama apparently thought the microphone was off, but instead the microphone picked up the entire conversation:
President Obama: “On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved but it’s important for him to give me space.”
President Medvedev: “Yeah, I understand. I understand your message about space. Space for you…”
President Obama: “This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility.”
President Medvedev: “I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir.”
If you thought Obama has had a radical agenda during his first term, wait until his second term when he doesn’t have to worry about reelection!
As for Russia, Russia strongly objected to anti-missile defense systems planned for Poland and the Czech Republic, and Obama appeased Russia by cancelling the program while obtaining nothing in return, except politically “Space for you…” as Medvedev describes.
Obama was so determined to appease Russia that he publicly humiliated the presidents of Poland and the Czech Republic by publicly announcing the cancellation of a program already approved by their governments without a “heads up” to these two leaders, who surely felt Obama ‘threw them under the bus’ (which he did). The two presidents learned of the cancellation from news programs, not through diplomatic channels, thanks to the incompetence of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Would these presidents and other world leaders every trust Obama again? Not hardly! Poland’s President Bronislaw Komorowski later said:
Our mistake was that by accepting the American offer of a shield we failed to take into account the political risk associated with a change of president. We paid a high political price. We do not want to make the same mistake again. We must have a missile system as an element of our defences.
Watch this hard hitting ad, in my opinion one of the best of this election cycle:
Gosh Bob, this latest PROPAGANDA film that you show, produced by American Crossroads – is really glitzy – and has all of the trappings of a Hollywood Blockbuster movie !!!
Well it should – cuz it comes from a multi-million dollar Super Pac – that can spend buko-bucks on political advertising – and is only really accountable, kinda, to it’s doners.
Here’s some of what the Wikipedia says about American Crossroads – start of quote – “American Crossroads lists its formal leadership as follows: American Crossroads is a 527 organization that in June 2010 established a spin-off 501(c) group called Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies (Crossroads GPS). This is a Super PAC that practices fundraising, with anonymous donors, for the Republican party. The former RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie and former President George W. Bush strategist Karl Rove were behind the formation of this Super PAC. It has raised and spent tens of millions of dollars to defend and elect Republican candidates to federal office, and was very active in the 2010 U.S. midterm elections. Its president is Steven J. Law, a former United States Deputy Secretary of Labor for President George W. Bush and the Chairman of the Board of Directors is former Republican National Committee chairman Mike Duncan. Advisers to the group include Senior Advisor and former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove and former Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour.
Leadership
Robert M. “Mike” Duncan, Chairman of the Board of American Crossroads, and former Chairman of the Republican National Committee.
Mike Duncan, Chairman of the Board
Steven J. Law, President and CEO
Jo Ann Davidson, Director
Carl Forti, Political Director
Karl Rove and Haley Barbour, Advisers
Jonathan Collegio, Communications Director
In 2012, for Republican FEC appointee Thomas J. Josefiak was reported to be a legal adviser to American Crossroads.
Funding
According to Federal Election Commission, IRS reports, analysis by the independent Center for Responsive Politics and other sources, American Crossroads’ major contributors have included:
Bob J. Perry, President of Perry Homes, Houston, Texas ($7 million)
B. Wayne Hughes, founder of Public Storage Inc ($2.3 million)
Trevor Rees-Jones, President and CEO of Chief Oil and Gas, ($2 million)
Robert Rowling, CEO of TRT Holdings, ($1 million)
Dixie Rice Agricultural Corporation ($1 million)
Southwest Louisiana Land ($1 million)
Jerry Perenchio Living Trust ($1 million)
American Financial Group, ($400,000)
American Crossroads raised $28 million in the 2010 election cycle. Ninety-one percent of the funds raised were from billionaires.” – end of quote
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Crossroads.