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RUSH: This was in Seoul, South Korea, this morning. President Obama and the outgoing Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, held a powwow. And near the end of the meeting Obama and Medvedev were overheard having this exchange. It\u2019s one of these hot-mic situations that nobody knew the microphone was on.<\/p>\n
OBAMA: On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this — this can be solved but it\u00c2\u2019s important for him to give me space.<\/p>\n
MEDVEDEV: Yeah, I understand. I understand your message about space. Space for you —<\/p>\n
OBAMA: This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility.<\/p>\n
MEDVEDEV: I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir, and I stand with you.<\/p>\n
So here you have the president of the United States telling the president of Russia (paraphrasing): “Hang loose, Dmitry! Sit tight out there. Once I get past this election, I\u2019m gonna have a lot more flexibility.” What he means is: “Nobody can stop me. I don\u2019t have another election, so I don\u2019t have to worry about popularity, and I don\u2019t have to worry about doing things the American people won\u2019t like. I\u2019ll be free and clear do whatever I want to do, Dmitry, and that\u2019s when I\u2019m gonna really be able to reduce our nukes. <\/p>\n
“Just tell Vlad to sit tight and be patient.” And Dmitry Medvedev said (impression), “Yes, I understand. I transmit this information to Vladimir, and I stand with you.” No one ever leaves the KGB! This is not, by any stretch of the imagination, the first time something like this has happened. I remember when Ronald Reagan was president, Teddy Kennedy actually told Soviet leaders at the time (I forget the specifics, but): Look, wait \u2019til we get rid of Reagan, and we\u2019ll be fine. During the eighties in Nicaragua, the Iran-Contra battles, the Soviet client state\u2019s little tinhorn was a guy named Daniel Ortega.<\/p>\n
And when he wasn\u2019t shopping for sunglasses with Peter, Paul, and Mary on Fifth Avenue in New York, he was down in Managua, Nicaragua. And this was during a time where the Reagan administration was trying to support the Contra rebels who wanted their freedom and to make sure that a Soviet client state was not established in Nicaragua. And the Democrats in the House of Representatives first led by Jim Jones (who was a congressman from Oklahoma, who went on to run the American Stock Exchange in Chicago) and then Jim Wright, the former Speaker of the House from Houston — coupled with George Miller and a number of others — would constantly go down and advise Ortega on how to deal with Reagan. <\/p>\n
And more specifically not to embarrass them, his Democrat sponsors in Washington. The Democrats would oppose aid to the Contras. They would pass legislation like the Boland amendment or other pieces of legislation. Reagan wanted money for the Contras. The Democrats would vote it down. After one such incident, Daniel Ortega flew to Moscow and asked the Soviets for $500 million. The Democrats sent George Miller… He\u2019s still a member of Congress. He\u2019s from Martinez, California. (I think it\u2019s Martinez. It\u2019s the Bay Area.) They sent George Miller down there to slap Ortega on the wrist and say: Don\u2019t embarrass us this way. You can\u2019t go flying off to the Soviet Union and ask for $500 million after we vote down Reagan! You gotta sit tight here. You\u2019re making us look bad!<\/p>\n
And the Democrats would say: “We don\u2019t support communism! You can\u2019t say we support communism!”<\/p>\n
Well, how would your vote be any different if you were supporting communism? So it\u2019s another instance of a Democrat president saying to a foreign leader (paraphrased), “Hey, just hang with me here. You know, when I don\u2019t have to worry about the people, don\u2019t have to worry about Congress, don\u2019t have to worry about anybody the country wants, I can get rid of more nukes. Just tell Vladimir to sit tight.” Now, what else is he telling other foreign leaders to sit tight on aside from nuclear weapons? “Just wait \u2019til I get my second term here. Wait \u2019til I win this election. Then we can really do business.” What\u2019s he saying to Hugo Chavez, for example, or what\u2019s he saying to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt or Syria or wherever? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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