Day By Day by Chris Muir April 19, 2009 – The Black Knight of O!

But, you see Chris, President Obama views himself as the new Gorbachev and to that end as his advisor David Axelrod says, “You plant, you cultivate, you harvest. Over time, the seeds that were planted here are going to be very, very valuable” – even if you are selling out American values.

It is DOUBLESPEAK.

What has Obama done:

• Admitted to Europeans that America deserves at least part of the blame for the world’s financial crisis because it did not regulate high-flying and greedy Wall Street gamblers.
• Told the Russians he wants to reset relations that fell to Cold War-style levels under his predecessor, George W. Bush.
• Asked NATO for more help in the fight in Afghanistan, and, not getting much, did not castigate alliance partners.
• Lifted some restrictions on Cuban Americans’ travel to their communist homeland and eased rules on sending wages back to families there.
• Shook hands with, more than once, and accepted a book from Hugo Chavez, the virulently anti-American leader of oil-rich Venezuela.
• Said America’s appetite for illegal drugs and its lax control of the flow of guns and cash to Mexico were partly to blame for the drug-lord-inspired violence that is rattling the southern U.S. neighbor.

Obama should remember what happened to Gorbachev though.

The President is gambling with over fifty years of American foreign policy and when there is a misstep he will receive ALL of the blame.

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