{"id":4941,"date":"2014-03-08T04:33:29","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T04:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=4941"},"modified":"2014-03-08T04:33:29","modified_gmt":"2014-03-08T04:33:29","slug":"irony-taints-obama-critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=4941","title":{"rendered":"Irony taints Obama critics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>There&#8217;s a certain irony attached to the criticism that keeps pouring in from the right regarding President Obama&#8217;s handling of the Ukraine-Russia crisis.<\/p>\n<p>They gripe that the president is feckless and ineffective in his handling of the crisis that has seen Russian troops roll into Crimea after Ukraine ousted its pro-Russia president.<\/p>\n<p>The irony? It is that the <em>criticism itself <\/em>undermines the president\/commander in chief as he seeks to work out some kind of response in conjunction with our allies.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"DwQP1Mmnos\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/200188-putin-dismisses-warnings-from-obama\/\">Putin dismisses warnings from Obama<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Putin dismisses warnings from Obama&#8221; &#8212; The Hill\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/200188-putin-dismisses-warnings-from-obama\/embed\/#?secret=GSCBGPfHCb#?secret=DwQP1Mmnos\" data-secret=\"DwQP1Mmnos\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Didn&#8217;t we hear similar concerns about the left&#8217;s continual carping during President Bush&#8217;s two terms? Russia sent troops into Georgia in the final full year of Bush&#8217;s presidency, which caused a lot of hand-wringing and teeth-gnashing. The left was wrong to undermine President Bush&#8217;s efforts &#8212; and the right is wrong to do the very same thing to President Obama.<\/p>\n<p>It was the great Republican U.S. senator from Michigan, Arthur Vandenberg, who coined the axiom about politics &#8220;ending at the water&#8217;s edge.&#8221; He meant that partisan critics of presidents ought to hold their fire when the president is acting in his role as head of state during an international crisis. <\/p>\n<p>This is precisely what Barack Obama is trying to do now as he works with our allies to find some kind of diplomatic solution to Russia&#8217;s meddling in what should be a solely internal matter to be decided by Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The carping from the right is emboldening Russian president\/strongman Vladimir Putin and it isn&#8217;t helping end the crisis.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a certain irony attached to the criticism that keeps pouring in from the right regarding President Obama&#8217;s handling of the Ukraine-Russia crisis. They gripe that the president is feckless and ineffective in his handling of the crisis that has seen Russian troops roll into Crimea after Ukraine ousted its pro-Russia president. The irony? It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=4941\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Irony taints Obama critics<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[474,540,1899,4050,5125],"class_list":["post-4941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-arthur-vandenberg","tag-barack-obama","tag-george-w-bush","tag-russia","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}