Addressing the allegations of Russia “hacking the US election” during his year-end news conference, President Obama provided considerable new details about the official government narrative of what happened. Unsurprisingly, the new details don’t add up, nor fit into the narrative as previously offered.
Obama once again provided no evidence of Russia’s involvement in the hacks, starting once again with the assumption that Russia did what he conceded was a “not particularly sophisticated” hacking attack, and then drew the conclusion that because Putin has a lot of pull in Russia, he must’ve been directly involved.
The most curious aspect of Obama’s narrative, however, is that he claims the hacking attacks stopped entirely in early September after a single direct warning to Putin. Obama claimed to have spoken directly to Putin in early September, when both were in China, and told him to “cut it out.”
Obama insisted after this single warning “we did not see further tampering of the election process” by anyone afterwards. This doesn’t at all fit into the previously provided storyline, which claimed repeated and serious efforts to hack the election.
It also doesn’t make a lot of sense that the US kept making public threats to Russia through the week of the election itself. Obama’s comments would suggest the administration kept hyping the matter and making additional public threats for no reason, despite having obviously handled the matter months ago.
If the hacking stopped way back in September, it also doesn’t make sense that officials continue to hack the hypes as an ongoing thing, nor does it make sense that the story has gained so much more attention in the past week, despite being long over.
This is embarrassing.
The president talks like a banana republic strongman, showing off to his poor folks how big and bad he is. Really, this is how the world functions today?
Trump is right, the respect has to be earned in international relations.
And the sun set because the POTUS said it was time for bed…
Where is Baghdad Bob? This is a really, really, big job and the Washington Wanker can’t do it on his own.
No. What’s ironic in the situation is that they would have needed help from someone like Saddam to make their plans work. oops.
So,when he told Putin to “cut it out”, did he put cotton in his cheeks and try to imitate Brando or was he more like The Fonz? Which is it…a breathless public awaits the details.
And here I thought George (the shrub) Bush jr. was the biggest idiot. Obama is making Trump look like an elder statesman.
He is really making himself look bad with his hallmark folksiness applied in the most inappropriate situation. Is he already campaigning? Trying yo appeal to “young” voters? He is completely misreading his high ratings. He gets some credit for holding back on all out military adventure in Syria. But now be is shredding even that bit of fig leaf moderation.
This kind of self aggrandizing statement is just put out for his unconditional supporters so they can grovel at his feet a little more. Which is, after all, what Obama seems to enjoy most about being the president. I’ll give him credit where credit is due, he was very good at campaigning for himself and loves the adulation he gets from the people who support him.
As for this hacking nonsense, it wasn’t Russia and they all know it. What the ultimate goals are for this game are is anyone’s guess and are most likely multifaceted. I can say this much, none of it is good for any of us though. So the more we speak out and show that it’s all a much of nonsense the better.
If the fakenews teaches un anything, it’s that lies come directly from the US administration, for the most part. Hyperventilating commentators only add the toppings to make the show more telegenic.
Yes, clearly this is the best explanation because we all know how subservient Putin has been to Obama and how much influence Obama has always brought to bear on Russia itself. Why would anyone think Putin would act any differently from the slavish, kowtowing lackey of Obama that he’s always been?
I don’t that very much. Putin deals with strong leaders not whimps like the CURRENT US president.
When you create a lie about ‘hacking’ it is easy to formulate another lie about being strong and telling the Russians to “cut it out”.
Since most Americans will get their news from the US government news agencies, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, FOX…. it is easy to have supporting FAKE news repeat the lie until it is fully absorbed in the minds of the viewers.
When Obama goes into a knife fight about who’s hacking who, he should be
aware that the person who has not just a hidden gun, but a hidden
Empire, in his back pocket is going to be ‘exposed’ as the Imperialist.
My advice to Obama is that “People who live in glass Empire houses of
757 foreign military window-bases, shouldn’t throw stones.” — or even hack
stones.
Putin may have some blood on his hands (like all heads of state),
but Obama has an Empire tied around his neck.
I’d like to hear from Putin on this supposed exchange between him and Obummer.