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Title: Obama: Putin will lose — eventually
Post by: flowers on March 26, 2014, 10:53:41 pm
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/03/barack-obama-vladimir-putin-ukraine-105067.html

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BRUSSELS — President Barack Obama said Wednesday that Vladimir Putin is just the latest in a series of history’s losers, comparing the Russian leader to those who came up short in World War I, World War II, the Cold War, the U.S. civil rights movement, apartheid and other major 20th-century struggles.

Time’s on his side, Obama argued. People always struggle to be free and eventually succeed — and they will in Russia too, even if, for now, it’s ruled by a flouter of international law and obstinate believer in “that recycled maxim that might, somehow, makes right.”

:banging:
Title: Re: Obama: Putin will lose — eventually
Post by: rustynail on March 26, 2014, 10:59:56 pm
Boy's a dreamer.
Title: Re: Obama: Putin will lose — eventually
Post by: Chieftain on March 26, 2014, 11:00:33 pm
"On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero." -- Tyler Durden, "Fight Club"

 :smokin:
Title: Re: Obama: Putin will lose — eventually
Post by: happyg on March 26, 2014, 11:03:56 pm
Putin won't lose while Obummer is president. Leave it Obama, Putin will own the US.
Title: Re: Obama: Putin will lose — eventually
Post by: happyg on March 27, 2014, 12:27:20 am
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BjsVLEOIEAAdmo8.jpg)
Title: Re: Obama: Putin will lose — eventually
Post by: Oceander on March 27, 2014, 02:08:05 am
Quote from: Chieftain on March 26, 2014, 11:00:33 pm
"On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero." -- Tyler Durden, "Fight Club"

 :smokin:


In the long run we are all dead.  John Maynard Keynes
Title: Re: Obama: Putin will lose — eventually
Post by: Oceander on March 27, 2014, 02:08:33 am
Quote from: happyg on March 27, 2014, 12:27:20 am
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BjsVLEOIEAAdmo8.jpg)


Nah, even that gives Obuttocks too much credibility and skill.
Title: Re: Obama: Putin will lose — eventually
Post by: mountaineer on March 27, 2014, 12:18:32 pm
Obama didn't learn much about world history in his Indonesian Muslim school, I'd say.