(03-21-2018 11:41 AM)JustAnotherAustinOwlStill Wrote:  

(03-21-2018 10:20 AM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

(03-21-2018 09:17 AM)JustAnotherAustinOwlStill Wrote:  So, why did Trump call Putin to congratulate him on his "reelection"? Genuine question. His foreign policy advisors apparently told him not to. He did it anyway. Not the smartest move, especially given that he's trying to argue he doesn't have ties to Putin. A handful of R's have called him out on it, but still just a handful.

It gets back to what noted leftist and Hillary-lover Trey Gowdy said - "if you're innocent, act like it!" That's what doesn't fit in the whole Mueller thing. If there was NO COLLUSION! why is Donald freaking out?

I don't know the answer. But I'll attempt to speculate based on limited knowledge - this is the internet, after all. I think he simply doesn't want his shady business connections with Russian oligarchs and organized crime exposed. Thus the refusal to release tax returns. I don't know what the specifics are. I just know he has ties going back years and he's been dishonest and not forthcoming about it.

So 6 years ago Obama congatulates Putin for his win -- perfectly copacetic.

Trump congratulating Putin for a win -- bad.

Got it now. Thanks for clearing that up.

Well, that works the other way too. From Ana Navarro:

2012: Obama congratulates Putin on his “win”. R’s attack. D’s silent.
2016-2018: Putin complicit in Assad’s genocide. Putin meddles in US elections. Putin poisons opponents in Eng.
2018: Trump congratulates Putin on his “win”. D’s attack. Most R’s -not McCain- crickets.

So Obama congratulates Putin for win *before* Syrian genocide, election meddling, annexing Crimea, etc. = outrage.

Trump congratulates Putin after these things -- perfectly copacetic.

However, the odder thing to me is that he directly contradicted his national security advisors. Why? Or more worrisome is that some are now reporting that it wasn't a case of blatantly disregarding them, as it was of neglecting his basic responsibility and not reading his daily security briefing. "Can't be bothered to read national security briefings but tasked with making decisions on national security" is surely a bad characteristic regardless of party, isn't it?

Sure is a bad characteristic. Didnt like it when Capt. Kickass Obama made a point if heavily minimizing his briefings. At least I seem to be objective in hitting both of them for it instead of the selective outrage. Btw you fundamentally forgot to add Obamas pathetic whimper to Vlad to be more 'flexible' in your timeline or his utter contempt to Romney where Romney had the temerity to call Russia an enemy. When you bother to do so it changes the tenor of your supposed point quite dramatically....

I find the sinister implication of a Congrats to be worthy and to the level of an episode of "In Search of Ancient Alien Astronauts"....

If it wasnt so laughable Id say that you should pitch it as an episode to that squirrelly haired greek 'professor' who is the de facto host of that show...