Carney: Of course Obama doesn't regret insulting Romney about Russia

Yesterday afternoon, Jay Carney was asked a simple question: Given recent events, does the administration have any regrets about being so dismissive of Mitt Romney when he said that Russia was our number one geo-political foe?

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Even without the headline, we're pretty sure you can guess the answer to that one. Obama won, so why would he regret being smarmy, self-righteous, and patronizing on the campaign trail? He got a second term. That's all he cared about. The ends justify the means, so whatever embarrassing and insulting comments he might have made did exactly what they were supposed to do. While the lack of remorse may not be surprising, Carney's answer is - if only because it makes no sense whatsoever.

"No, because you have a situation where Russia is violating international law because a country that Moscow ...a government that Moscow supported was rejected by the vast majority of the Ukrainian people. And because they wanted to determine their own future, because they wanted to be able to make the decision as to their integration with Europe. They didn’t want to be dictated to by an outside state or an outside authority. I think it’s hardly a demonstration of.... It’s not a positive thing for Russia that Ukraine has been moving in this direction. Our whole point is it doesn’t have to be a negative thing. It is a mistake, certainly, in the long-run for Russia not to accept the fact that Ukraine can, the Ukrainian people should be able to decide for themselves in a democratic manner how they will integrate with Europe, and that doing so doesn’t mean they can not maintain their long, historical and cultural ties to Russia."

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Huh? If you're not sure what all that was supposed to mean, you're not alone. Carney's blather is probably just more cluelessness from history's most clueless administration. However, we want to give him the benefit of the doubt, so we've got a team of Navajo codetalkers working to decipher it. If they come up with anything, we'll let you know. I could have sworn that I'd heard this answer before, and I was right! Here it is:

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