Kit Bond: Obama's Russia trip like 'pile of manure'

[babylonsister]

What a POS-great way to support the US President. Can you imagine if dim son had been criticized like this, ever?


http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2009/07/08/gop-senator-obamas-russia-trip-like-pile-of-manure/

GOP senator: Obama's Russia trip like 'pile of manure'
@ 3:31 pm by Michael O'Brien


President Obama's trip to Russia has produced little more than a "pile of manure," the top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee said Wednesday.

Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.) said that Obama had failed to raise a number of important issues with Russian leaders during meetings there in the first half of this week.

"President Obama, as far as I know, hasn't raised any of those questions — like including cybersecurity, including sanctions on North Korea and Iran," Bond said during a conference with Missouri reporters. "I'm still digging through the manure pile to see if there's a pony in it, but I haven't seen any coming out of the meetings with {Prime Minister} Vladimir Putin and {President Dimitry} Medvedev yet."

Bond also saved some tough words for the Russian government itself, calling it "brutal" and a "despotic kleptocracy." (Kleptocracies are defined by a government that enriches its leaders or ruling class at the expense of the general populous.)

"Sadly, Russia's continued to devolve from what was formerly an evolving, democratic society after the Cold War back into a despotic kleptocracy," Bond said, "A brutal kleptocracy where opponents and journalists are murdered if they speak out against it."

The Missouri lawmaker, who's retiring at the end of this term in Congress, said that Russia needed to diversify and open up its economy, and called on the government to provide more assistance to bolster both the U.S. and Russian governments' cybersecurity efforts.

[Akoto]

1. "The Missouri lawmaker, who's retiring at the end of this term ..."

You see? Every fairytale really does have a happy ending.

[Fridays Child]

2. Hey, Sh(k)it, take a page from Palin's playbook...

...retire NOW.

[DarthDem]

3. Bye, Kit

Ahhhh, one of the ultimate do-nothing Senators of the past 4-5 decades decides to speak his mind frankly now that he's finally retiring in a year and a half. I wonder if Obama's "pile" was more or less in volume, or however piles of manure are properly measured, than the pile of manure that is Kit's Senate record.

[Cha]

4. The party of NO knows nothing..

kit bond would have no idea what Pres Obama is accomplishing in Russia.

[rvablue]

5. So, either Senator Bond is a telephathic or he's admitting to privately communicating with the

Russian government, which one would think on the sunset of such a trip, would at minimum, be against protocol.

I don't believe either. I believe that regardless of what the President discussed, or didn't discuss, Senator Bond would be bitching and moaning about the trip.

Wahhhh! :cry:

[MarjorieG]

6. Gee, a good approach to interest Russia in co-operating. Heard Obama was firm, stated aims, and a

beginning. Thawing Putin will take more than Kit has to offer.

[alsame]

7. How the hell does he know what was and wasn't covered in

meetings?

Oh, I see, he said 'as far as I know', which gives him the freedom to make up whatever he wants.

I guess the gloves are completely off in terms of not bad mouthing a President when they are overseas. Let's remember that if we ever have another Repub in office.

[lamp_shade]

8. Another "Grumpy Old Man". There's a bunch of 'em that need to retire soon.