That's lunacy. It's a kin to stating that someone saying 'let me pay you back when I get my paycheck in' is identical to robbing a bank.
It’s the ‘logic’ conservatives have to roll with to excuse Trumps behavior.
I assume you're referring to the conversation I'm reading about regarding missile defense, and I assume misc other concerns? Based on reading, Obama told Medvedev (and subsequently passed on to Putin since he was coming back into power at that point) to give him space until post-election to talk about/work through defense concerns, more de-escalations, etc.
In what way does that appear to be impeachable to you? I'm genuinely curious how you're finding this comparable to Trump actually engaging with Ukraine to find dirt on his political ally?
Obama tells Russia's Medvedev more flexibility after election
President Barack Obama was caught on camera on Monday assuring outgoing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that he will have "more flexibility" to deal with contentious issues like missile defense after the U.S. presidential election.www.reuters.com
How exactly was he negotiating? Both us and Russia were going through a re-election and it's pretty obvious that during that timeframe, bigass deals don't get made. Unless I'm really reading this article wrong, he wasn't 'negotiating' anything, he was just saying 'let's reengage this once we're done with elections, assuming I'm still around'. Got a link that indicates any kind of negotiation?
What? It says right here that Russia wanted a legally binding pledge regarding its use, not that it be cancelled.
You could argue it's a concession to bring Russia to the negotiating table (it is) but it's hardly cancelling anything, nor doing 'their bidding'.
Huh? It might have jeopardized his election depending on how Republicans spun it (i'm getting an idea based on your comments) but it's really obvious to anyone looking objectively at this that it had nothing to do with his political ambitions. 6? months or whatever is a really tight timeframe for a multinational defense agreement. That's the kind of thing you kick off in Y1-3, not Y4.
... Nothing? I wouldn't say shit if Trump delayed working on a multi-national negotiation until after his election due to timeframes involved.
Some of it is just casual grifting, scraping the bottom of the barrel for those that are easily tricked. Some is definitely alternate-reality land though. Recasting Romney as a Democrat plant is a superb example of that.
A common punishment is to have the avout memorize chapters in "The Book" - "crafted and refined over many centuries to be nonsensical, maddening, and pointless ... The punishment lay in knowing that you were putting all that effort into letting a kind of intellectual poison infiltrate your brain". - Anathem by Neal Stephenson
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