The Curiosity of Obama and Russia

With the announcement of the findings of the Mueller investigation, the whole perspective we have on the issue of Russia and the 2016 election appears to have changed.  A dozen or so Russians, who will never be extradited from Russia to be brought to trial here, were charged with whatever the obscure laws governing foreign interference in elections cover.

Of course, there is some kind of report with the charge filing, and that provides some indication as to what the Mueller team believes they found that Russians did.  And those charges have some pretty interesting content in them that makes us think a bit.

The Russians have been tampering with our election process for decades; we always knew that.  This effort and investigation actually forced our government for once to dig hard into what the Russians were doing, as opposed to telling them to "cut it out" (B. Obama, 2016) got some concrete material on when, as well as what, they were doing.

So let's note one prominent point.  The evidence that the Special Counsel's team uncovered, about their actions in the 2016 election, indicate a continuous effort going back to at least 2014.  Since Donald Trump didn't come down that Trump Tower escalator to declare for the presidency until June 2015, it does sort of blow up the notion that there was any particular collusion between the Russians and the Trump campaign.

The report, of course, indicates very strongly that the Russian actions were absolutely not on behalf of a single party or candidate.  They were balanced, intended to produce more contention between the parties and between candidates, more extreme hostility and, in general, try to make democracy as practiced in America look unattractive.  That's what they did, and that's why they did it.

So let us look at a few points in time.

In 2012, Barack Obama, then president and running for reelection, whispered over an open mic to Dmitry Medvedev to "Tell Vladimir [Putin]" that he would have more flexibility after the reelection campaign, and that Putin should give him "space."

During that same 2012 campaign, we were in one of the presidential debates with Mitt Romney.  Noting that Romney had called Russia our greatest geopolitical foe, Obama used the cutesy line, written for him to stuff in when the time was right, "The 1980s called and they want their foreign policy back."  In other words, on a huge stage, Obama, then the actual president, soft-pedaled any notion that Russia was a serious geopolitical adversary.

Then in 2014, the Russians who, in Obama's view, were not our big adversary, started (or updated) a campaign to sow discord in America by exacerbating the rhetoric and the contention on both sides, which they continued even after the election.  One can imagine that if the Russians somehow did not start, or fund Antifa, that they are at least quite supportive of an anarchic organization that fits their mission just fine, thanks.

So Obama says the Russians are not a big deal.  He whispers to them that he'll be more flexible after the election in 2012.  The Russians then foment all kinds of fake disguised-as-American garbage to stir up political animosity on both sides.  Obama knew that was going on, because Loretta Lynch's Department of "Justice" knew about it.

But nothing got done to stop it, and now somehow the Democrats are all uptight because they want President Trump to implement sanctions and probably invade Russia.  So why does Barack Obama have to be protected?  He obviously knew at least some of what was going on, but did not bring it to the attention of the American people, save telling Putin to "cut it out."  He even made a point late in the 2016 campaign that Donald Trump should stop complaining about a rigged election!

Is that not something that we should be asking about Obama before, you know, we start naming schools and mountains after him?  Obama is an extreme leftist, and leftists are not big fans of the will of the people, except the ones who keep voting for them to expand government.  Is it not possible that Obama was doing the "wink, wink" thing while the Russians were setting up shop over here specifically for the purpose of wreaking havoc on the normal electoral process?

Let's face it, problems -- any problems -- are good for the Obamas of the world, because they create an appearance of a need for more government, more oversight, more clamping down on all but the privileged class.  Motivation is all over this, especially if Obama's fingerprints could have been wiped clean, which would have happened had Hillary Clinton been elected.

Let's hold Barack Obama suitably accountable for the destabilization of the USA and our election system, and working with foreign entities to allow them to do so.

It's called "collusion", friends.

Copyright 2018 by Robert Sutton
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