Hey, Putin.. You’re taking Crimea, but who you taking in the Final Four?
When history looks back at the Russian approaches to Crimea, figuratively appropriate during this month of March — you can bet U.S. history doesn’t include a day-by-day account of what our President Obama was doing? March Madness for sure. Experts say that Putin was winging this strategy – to see what the USA would do, each step. Our President was vacationing in Florida one weekend, black tie events at the White House du jour, fundraisers in NoCal, buying sweaters in a Manhattan GAP store before more NYC fundraisers. (But, who will be reminded of all that?)
Today, there are intelligent discussions on and across NPR — about what actions the USA is taking or should take, as Russia seems to be claiming the Crimea in a show of international disregard for the West and the Ukraine. Our news is flooded with events of yesterday, today and results of aggressive action. (But, President Obama has Michigan State to win it all. He picked the favorites again — “chalky picks” is the name for it for basketball circles for simply taking no risks, and selecting just the colleges that the media/experts have already chosen across the last few days.) These days, because the White House is seeking ways to promote “ObamaCare” — they can always wash this as an excuse for signing-up young adults. In fact, here’s the actual WHITE HOUSE web-page promoting his picks.
What else, what else.. Oh, the economy? Laser focus on jobs? Nah.
Wait, there’s also a jet airliner missing in South Asia (along with hundreds of people including Americans and Chinese nationals) – reports today are people in the Maldives reported seeing a jet flying low four hours west of where it was last reported to be about 10 days ago. Israel believes this plane can be weaponized, fitted with a nuke and readies for a worst-case scenario. The pilot’s home flight simulator included 5 landing sites — including the very airstrip in the Maldives in question? Someone turned off the transponder during that infamous flight — and thus contact in the cockpit, before it was “lost”. Was this all intentional? It’s a global mystery. But, there’s also the NCAA college basketball tournament! (And this WH never misses a chance for easy national media coverage.)
Our President has done this for 6 years in a row, to be fair (that’s 5 prior to this year’s excuse of promoting ObamaCare). It’s part of his legacy? And it doesn’t matter to the teams that he picks “against” either, polls show they voted for him anyway. A Fundie-guy all the way, this President can work in a good time — no matter what the costs. No matter what Russia or China or Mitt Romney thinks, nor families longing for their loved ones in Malaysia.
Crimea river…
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