Russian President Vladimir Putin has attempted to mark a positive resemblance between Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden, and Soviet communists in a wide-ranging interview with the Rossiya TV channel, released Wednesday as the 2020 vice presidential candidates prepared to debate.
The president said the Kremlin would be open to working with whoever sits in the Oval Office in 2021, despite U.S. intelligence reports indicating that Russia is trying to undermine Biden in the same way it did Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in 2016.
But Putin linked Biden to communist ideology during the interview. While Putin—a former party member, KGB colonel and intelligence operative—made the comparison in positive terms, his comment lines up with GOP talking points about the Biden-Kamala Harris ticket. Trump and his allies have tried to frame their opponents proposing a far-left, extremist platform dictated by the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.
"The Democratic Party is traditionally closer to the so-called liberal values, closer to social democratic ideas," Putin said. "And it was from the social democratic environment that the Communist Party evolved."
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WNU Editor: It looks like Russian President Putin is hedging his bets .... Putin sends a mixed message on US election, hedging his bets (AP). All of my friends/contacts/and family are telling me that the sentiment in Russia is that Biden will be elected US President next month. I will know more later this week. A friend of mine has a radio show in Moscow and every two to three weeks I am on his show where we talk about what is happening in the U.S.. But from what I have been watching on Russian news channels, they have written President Trump off.
Update: Putin Trolls Biden: Communists & Dems Share 'Common Values' While Trump Record Hard On Russia (Zero Hedge)
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Well done from Putin! This is cutting all left wing news that Putin is working for Trump. Worse: Biden is now liked with all the left wing hate...Putin! Ah Ah Ah!
This is too perfect. Almost sounds like an anti-Democrat troll statement. In other words, yes, the Democrats are exactly what they've appeared to be the last 40 years--communism dressed in the cloak of socialism, which is nothing more than "commie-lite." Well, now they've exposed themselves good and proper. Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, no one else to blame. One can only hope the voters are awake enough to realize it.
Trump has been "written off" multiple times. Perhaps now is the time it actually happens. After all he is a multibillionaire which will draw the attention of the Russians, he has a wife that he loves who is of eastern European descent, and h3 won't kowtow to them. Putin is scared of Trump.
Now Putin can put his feet up, relax and chuckle out aloud as he starts on the popcorn.
Name a time when Trump ever said a bad word about Putin or Russia!
Lindsey Graham, reverse ferret: how John McCain's spaniel became Trump's poodle
Here’s the clearest sign that Democrats hold a clear advantage in their efforts to retake the Senate: Embattled Republican senators, most of whom proudly embraced Donald Trump through thick and thin, are suddenly running away from the president as he craters in the polls. The growing GOP panic, even among red-state senators, is a telltale sign that Majority Leader Mitch McConnell feels his majority slipping away.
The list of Republican senators suddenly finding religion is as long as it is surprising, coming less than a month before Election Day. Sen. Martha McSally of Arizona, who had transformed herself from a thoughtful pragmatist into a MAGA enthusiast, refused to say at a debate this week whether she was proud of her support for the president. That’s a contrast from two months ago, when she told this columnist during the Republican National Convention that she was “working very closely with [Trump’s] team on the ground.”
Sen. Susan Collins of Maine belatedly broke with Trump on an issue that unites most Republicans: appointing conservative justices to the Supreme Court. After spending valuable political capital as a decisive vote to confirm Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Collins declared her opposition to Judge Amy Coney Barrett because her nomination occurred so close to the election.
Facing a competitive reelection, Sen. John Cornyn of Texas criticized the president’s handling of the pandemic in an interview with the Houston Chronicle, blaming him for exacerbating public confusion with his remarks. “I think he got over his skis and, frankly, it’s a lesson for all of us that we need to exercise self-discipline,” Cornyn told the paper. Meanwhile, his home-state GOP colleague, Sen. Ted Cruz, went on national television to warn that this election could be a “bloodbath of Watergate proportions.”
Even McConnell has grown exasperated with the president’s antics, announcing that he hasn’t visited the White House since August because he views it as a public-health hazard. He’s all but ignored Trump’s off-and-on pleas to pass another round of stimulus, a signal that he views Trump’s political sway within the party as spent.
Fred gets his zingers in at 9:15 and 10:13.
The man voice as many of his own thoughts as Joe Biden.
A memorable campaign ad from 2008 urged voters to ask themselves which candidate would perform better in an unexpected emergency: “It’s 3 a.m. and your children are safe and asleep, but there’s a phone in the White House and it’s ringing ... Your vote will decide who answers that call.” Franklin D. Roosevelt answered Pearl Harbor. John F. Kennedy answered the deployment of Soviet missiles to Cuba. How would this year’s candidates respond when confronted with an emergency?
Joe Biden has never held the top job, so voters can only speculate. But a pandemic began on Donald Trump’s watch, so no speculation is needed. Trump showed us how he did perform in a crisis: He failed. Trump is obviously not responsible for all of the COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. But the U.S. has fared much worse than the median developed country. And among wealthy nations, its per capita deaths rank in the top five. Trump can’t avoid blame for America’s subpar performance, because voters can identify specific actions he took that contributed to the country’s failures. Especially damning is that Trump couldn’t even protect himself from the disease.
Amy Wilentz: Trump thought he’d never get it
Compare the White House to the NBA. Months ago, the league decided to go ahead with its season by bringing 22 teams into a “bubble” with coaches, trainers, referees, support staff, and media, despite a formidable challenge: Hundreds of young basketball players would run, pant, sweat, jostle for rebounds, huddle together in time-outs, and fill their off hours together, away from friends and family. The league developed sound protocols. Players, coaches, and others executed them competently. And the NBA went months without a positive COVID-19 test, allowing it to salvage a season worth billions of dollars while entertaining the American public.
A presidential bubble is comparatively easy to protect: Trump had all the resources of the federal government, no need for close physical contact, the ability to consult with any expert on optimal protocol, and a Secret Service to enforce whatever he decided upon. Yet he proved unable to stay healthy, not because he was stricken early, when little was known, but because he failed to take the most commonsense precautions, such as wearing a mask or not hosting large events.
Frederick posts a complete article on the Arizona senator race with glee. He hate the Republican candidate a former female fighter pilot.
Instead he supports the Democrat male candidate, who has his 27 million dollars from China.
Never expect logic from Frederick.
Never expect an apology from him.
Never expect him to be at the head of the class. Far from it.
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