Putin Speculation - Discussion

Posted Thu, 08/28/2008 - 14:11 by ePluribus Media

In his opinion editorial on the ePluribus Media Journal,John Spinelli analyzes Putin's speculation about Bush creating an incident in Georgia to help the GOP elect McCain president in 2008.

The incentive to continue to control the White House by creating an incident between now and Election Day in early November that will make security and defense a commanding issue, one voters say Mr. McCain is better suited to deal with than his young, untested opponent who has no military record to point to, is great indeed. Knowing the investment over eight or more years Republicans, directed by Rove and graduates of his school of smear and fear, have made to destabilize opponents by creating false bogeymen that only their candidates can vanquish, it should not be out of the realm of possibility that Mr. Bush will contrive a way to foment incidents that play to Mr. McCain’s strengths as someone “tough enough” to stand up to our enemies like Iran or now Russia.
Read Will Bush Create International Incident to Help Republicans, McCain Win White House? on the ePluribus Media Journal, and tell us what you think.

Comments

I think that RBA's quotation above of how Obama treated

by carol white - 08/29/2008 - 05:28
Putin's allegation is interesting read with Spinelli's Opinion Piece.
carol

Both Sides Now

by rba - 08/29/2008 - 05:33
In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn't like about Bush's former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. He expressed the White House's displeasure, and then he told me something that at the time I didn't fully comprehend -- but which I now believe gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency. The aide said that guys like me were ''in what we call the reality-based community,'' which he defined as people who ''believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.'' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ''That's not the way the world really works anymore,'' he continued. ''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.'' [Ron Suskind, NY Magazine, 17 Oct '04]
Both the Americans and Russians are controlled within their respective centers of power by people who are expert at 'creating' reality. While I have no doubt the administration will attempt something as utterly stupid as fabricating an event, I also have no doubt they will be facing a skeptical population, media, and Congress. Heads they lose, tails they lose.

Creating Artificial Reality

by susie dow - 08/29/2008 - 05:54
They believe what they want to believe. Therefor, everyone else is mistaken when it doesn't work out the way they want. Which is why Condoleezza Rice was able to say with a straight face that "Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US" was a historical memo with no bearing on the future of US national security. Had the memo been titled, "Bin Ladin to Strike in US" then she might have seen the memo as a warning. But no. The CIA just didn't make that clear enough to her.

On Putin's comments

by susie dow - 08/29/2008 - 06:13
The return of the American hostages from Iran was manipulated to benefit Ronald Reagan. A space shuttle was launched as backdrop for a Reagan speech - it blew up and killed everyone on board. The Bush White House outed a CIA agent whose specialty was weapons of mass destruction just to get back at her husband. In other words, it's all about power regardless of who gets hurt. A little war to boost a candidate? It's just another decorating theme for some fund raising parties...

I suspect that Putin is

by Jeff Huber - 08/29/2008 - 07:08
I suspect that Putin is right. Commander Jeff Huber, U.S. Navy (Retired) writes from Virginia Beach, Virginia. Read his commentaries at Pen and Sword, ePluribus and

Commander Jeff Huber, U.S. Navy (Retired) writes from Virginia Beach, Virginia. Read his commentaries at Pen and Sword, ePluribus and

Gotta agree with you Jeff!

by cho - 08/29/2008 - 08:44
Both scarey, one because he is smart, the other because he is not.

I am beginning to think what I am going to say is Dangerous

by carol white - 09/01/2008 - 06:47
We are not that far from a new witch hunt with the crowd in power. I definitely prefer Putin to McCain. One can say McCain is impulsive but deranged sounds to me more like it. I'm not sure about him being stupid. I don't think Bush is stupid either. I think that he has the kind of blinders that allowed Hitler to bring his country to destruction and might have destroyed the rest of the world in the process, particularly if he had gotten a nuclear weapon before the US had a deterrent. I don't think Putin is reckless or crazy, and that is the safer of the two alternatives in my book.
carol

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