Obama’s and Putin’s Sour Take on America One and the Same

That telltale fishy smell comes with Russia President Vladimir Putin’s September 11 lecture to Americans, and the reek is not one that comes solely from his close association with fish wrap they call the New York Times.

Putin’s biggest shill on the day most Americans were remembering the dead of September 11, 2001 and victims of the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack was for the United Nations. “The United Nations’ founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen only by consensus, and with America’s consent the veto by Security Council permanent members was enshrined in the United Nations Charter. “No one wants the United Nations to suffer the fate of the League of Nations, which collapsed because it lacked real leverage. This is possible if influential countries bypass the United Nations and take military action without Security Council authorization,” Putin wrote in yesterday’s NYT op-ed. Millions of ordinary folk are onto the long-standing, mealy-mouthed, do-nothing role of the UN when saving human lives really matters, like in Rwanda for instance. Some would like to see the world’s largest bureaucracy deceitfully touted as a fuzzy, warm blanket, transferred from Lower Manhattan and relocated to a nation like Saudi Arabia, the Congo or Russia.

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Putin, who seems to have found God and “the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement” right around the same time, echoes President Barack Obama, Code Pink and the “America-can’t-do-anything-right” anti-war crowd:

“It’s alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States. Is it in America’s long-term interest? I doubt it. Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force, cobbling conditions together under the slogan “you’re either with us or against us.”

Millions more see America as a beckoning beacon of hope, in spite of the propaganda spewed by envious world leaders. It should be more alarming that Putin got to speak to Americans right at their kitchen tables and on their porches, courtesy of the New York Times right on the day when almost 3,000 innocents were being remembered on the 12th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Try doing the same thing in Russia. Putin’s statement, “My working and personal relationship with President Obama is marked by growing trust” is the diametric opposite of millions of Americans who don’t trust Obama and seek to rescue their country from his obsessive “Fundamental Transformation of America” before it’s too late. Given the rah-rah Putin-to-the-rescue comments that follow his op-ed, the freedom and liberty of the West is in big trouble because the lemmings, who buy into Putin’s sincerity will buy into most anything. Having “carefully studied” Obama’s address to Americans on Tuesday, Putin disagrees with the case he made on American exceptionalism when he stated that the United States’ policy is ‘what makes America different. It’s what makes us exceptional’ before going on to mock: “It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation.” Obama’s final acknowledgement to American exceptionalism on Tuesday was his first. Like Putin, he normally insults the notion, and has done so lo these past four and a half years, traveling the world to insult the country that pays his salary. Has anyone noticed how much alike Putin and Obama sound when pontificating about the failings of America? When it comes to the United States, global elitists Putin and Obama are the head and tail of the same ideology: one best described as the inevitable march of socialism toward totalitarianism.