Obama Just Said The Most Stunningly Hypocritical Thing Ever

By: Ben Shapiro,

November 17, 2016

“In the Soviet Union,” the old joke goes, “the future is known. It’s the past that keeps on changing.” So it is with Barack Obama, who traveled to Germany today, where he proceeded to lecture his successor, Donald Trump, on not caving to Russia. “We should all hope for a Russia that is successful,” Obama blathered, noting that Russia disagrees with us on values ranging from democracy to freedom of speech and territorial integrity. “Those things are not something that we can set aside.” He then added:
I don’t expect that the president-elect will follow exactly our approach, but my hope is he does not simply take a realpolitik approach and suggest that, you know, if we just cut some deals with Russia, even if it hurts people or even if it violates international norms or even if it leaves smaller countries vulnerable, or creates long-term problems in regions like Syria, that we just do whatever’s convenient at the time.

For those who have not been comatose for the last several years, this is insanity. This was precisely Obama’s policy in Syria. Obama drew a red line – he said there would be consequences if Syrian dictator Bashar Assad used weapons of mass destruction. Assad did. Obama then geared up to do a “pinprick” attack on Syria, and when Vladimir Putin stepped in, Obama took a realpolitik approach and cut a deal with Russia that hurt people and violated international norms and left smaller countries vulnerable and created a long-term problem because it was convenient.
This is the most blatant case of gaslighting in modern political history.

In fact, Obama’s entirely new anti-Russia stance is quite a change. Obama is the fellow who thought that George W. Bush was too rough on Putin, and deployed Hillary Clinton to give him a reset button. He’s the guy who promised Putin “flexibility” after his re-election. He’s the man who handed over Crimea to Putin without much more than a squeak. He’s the president who ripped Mitt Romney for his anti-Russian rhetoric, stating that it was a relic of the Cold War.

And this guy is going to lecture us about Russian policy?

Barack Obama made Vladimir Putin Great Again. And now he’s demanding that Trump box him in. Well, Trump should box Putin in. There are few indicators Trump will do so – he’s been insanely warm to Putin throughout this election cycle, and even changed the Republican platform to make it less anti-Putin.

But that doesn’t mean Obama is a truth-teller He’s a massive, awful hypocrite of the highest order.

(Obama is still carrying that old grudge – Hillary’s reset button with Russia that didn’t blow up!)

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