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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1023851)	7/6/2017 10:01:00 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1573806

Then you have another memory problem. I thought it was scandalous for Obama to be caught making secret assurances to Medvedev. I thought Hillary's reset button was stupid and said so. I may be the only person on SI who posts about Ted Kennedy's and Carter's treasonous attempts to recruit Soviet assistance against Reagan.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1023851)	7/6/2017 10:10:18 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1573806

A look at the past. 2012: .............. Long before Barack Obama, it was Carter who led the original Apology Tour. The result? The Cold War did not cool down, it heated up. And it is decidedly worth noting that when Obama dismissed Romney's thinking on Russia by saying "the Cold War has been over for 20 years" -- when it was up to Jimmy Carter(not to mention even or especially Carter's 1980 primary opponent the late Senator Ted Kennedy -- Obama's major supporter in 2008) -- liberals of the day demanded America follow a policy that would have kept the Cold War alive and well to this day. When Ronald Reagan defeated Carter, liberals spent the rest of the Cold War vociferously protesting Reagan's successful efforts to win it. Now they boast that it's over, as if their thinking and decades of blundering, costly policies have somehow been vindicated -- and should be repeated. And the same exact approach Carter employed with the Communist world was applied to the Islamic revolutionaries in Iran -- unleashing the Islamic fundamentalist whirlwind on the world. This time around the problem is another American president -- Barack Obama. And unsurprisingly, in his September 4th video address to the Democrats in their Charlotte Convention, it was Jimmy Carter who claimed Obama was seen as a "leader among nations." Said the man who led and left the world in chaos in his single term: Overseas President Obama has restored the reputation of the United States within the world community. Dialogue and collaboration are once again possible with the spirit of trust and goodwill in our foreign policy. Seven days later, Ambassador Chris Stevens was murdered by Islamic terrorists. And the Middle East was in flames, with violent protests breaking out throughout the world. Why was this happening? And happening again? Because one more time an American president has led with weakness. With policies that Romney last night correctly labeled a "rising tide of chaos." Chaos. The main link that ties the results of the Carter and Obama policies so tightly together. • By ostentatiously signing the order to close Guantanamo -- and being unable to keep his promises. • By releasing a video addressed to the Iranian mullahs asking for a Carteresque "new beginning" in the American relationship with Iran "that is honest and grounded in mutual respect," enabling Iran to "take its rightful place in the community of nations… [not] through terror or arms, but rather through peaceful actions that demonstrate the true greatness of the Iranian people and civilization." In response, Iran continues its work to get a nuclear weapon. • By insisting his administration replace the word "terrorism" (and others) terms like "man-caused disaster" because, as Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano put it in an interview in Der Spiegel: … In my speech, although I did not use the word "terrorism," I referred to "man-caused" disasters. That is perhaps only a nuance, but it demonstrates that we want to move away from the politics of fear toward a policy of being prepared for all risks that can occur. • By going to Cairo University and making the Obama equivalent of Carter's "inordinate fear of Communism" Notre Dame speech. Saying, among other things: … I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear. • By telling his then-Russian counterpart, the outgoing President Dmitri Medvedev to tell Vladimir Putin: "This is my last election. After my election, I'll have more flexibility." To which Romney said of Putin in last night’s debate: "After the election he'll get more backbone" in dealing with Obama. • By remaining silent as the Iranian people tried to stand up for their freedoms in the "Green Revolution" -- against the very Iranian mullahs who helped end Jimmy Carter’s presidency. Time after time after time Obama has sent signals of weakness to the world. And on September 11, 2012 -- just as on February 14, 1979 -- the policy of appeasement and weakness that caught up with Jimmy Carter finally caught up with Barack Obama. In 1979 that foreign policy resulted in the death of Spike Dubs. In 2012, the Ambassador who wound up murdered was Chris Stevens. ....... Just like Jimmy Carter, a dead Ambassador has become a symbol of Obama's failed foreign policy. And there is a reason for it. That reason? The Obama foreign policy is being conducted exactly like the Carter foreign policy. The Carter Apology Tour, from a speech about the "inordinate fear of communism" to slapping the wrists of the Soviets over the death of Ambassador Dubs to the Iranian hostage crisis, sent a message and produced results, all of them bad. Or, as Romney said last night about the Obama foreign policy in words that echoed the sentiments of Reagan about Carter's foreign policy: "I don't see our influence growing around the world -- I see our influence receding." ............. Message 28496821

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1023851)	7/6/2017 10:12:30 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1573806

From 2011: Newly Released FBI Files: Ted Kennedy Was a Pompous, Commie-Sympathizing Pervert, i.e., a Perfect Democrat Icon Newly released FBI files obtained by Judicial Watch reveal that the late Senator Ted Kennedy was quite the twisted leftist. Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained previously redacted material from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) file of the late Senator Edward “Ted” Kennedy, who died in August 2009 from brain cancer. Judicial Watch obtained the records pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit originally filed on June 9, 2010 (Judicial Watch v. FBI (Case No. 10-963)). <img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VQXJaGAs6jk/TWpdN8ts-6I/AAAAAAAAkIo/v4iM6JlP6Jc/s1600/110227-ted-kennedy-010.jpg" ...The documents include a December 28, 1961, State Department memo describing a tour of several Latin American countries taken by then-Assistant District Attorney of Suffolk County Kennedy. This document as it was originally made public was almost completely redacted. After an initial challenge by Judicial Watch, a version with fewer redactions was released. Judicial Watch continued to argue that the blackouts were baseless and, after six more months, the FBI relented. Among the statements previously withheld but now made available to Judicial Watch: <img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SoZ6iUyPFG8/TWpdNtK_VDI/AAAAAAAAkIg/zXmtDfzI2ZY/s1600/110227-ted-kennedy-020.jpg" • “While [the married] Kennedy was in Santiago he made arrangements to ‘rent’ a brothel for an entire night. Kennedy allegedly invited one of the Embassy chauffeurs to participate in the night’s activities.” • “[I]n each country Kennedy insisted on interviewing ‘the angry young men’ of the country. He wanted to meet with communists and others who had left-wing views. …Ambassador Freeman, Bogota, said the first person whom Kennedy wanted to meet was Lauchlin Currie.” (The document subsequently identifies Currie as a person who “had been mentioned in Washington investigations of Soviet spy rings.”) • “[I]n Mexico Kennedy asked Ambassador Mann that certain left-wingers be invited to the Embassy residence where interviews could be held. Mann took the strong position that he would not invite such people and stated that if any such interviews were to be conducted, all arrangements should be made by Kennedy himself.” Kennedy had a troubling history apart from these incidents and, of course, Chappaquiddick. In 1992, after the fall of the Soviet Union, KGB files revealed that Kennedy had twice approached Soviet leaders with proposals that would boost his political aspirations while undermining American national security. In 1978 Kennedy reportedly used a go-between to establish a relationship with the KGB in order to sabotage President Jimmy Carter's foreign policy efforts. Kennedy, of course, was interested in running against Carter in the 1980 primary. Furthermore, Kennedy approached the Soviets with an offer to help undermine Ronald Reagan's 1984 presidential reelection campaign. Kennedy proposed a public relations blitz and mentioned his friends -- Walter Cronkite and Barbara Walters, by name -- as willing to assist in the propaganda effort. That Kennedy is held out as some sort of heroic Democrat figure is an outrage. But it shows just how far afield the Party of Weakness and its media sycophants have wandered. ......... Message 27198483

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1023851)

7/6/2017 10:13:56 PM

From: Brumar89

Respond to of 1573806

From 2015:

Damn right Ted Kennedy was a traitor. And that's a tradition in his party.

..... As I document in "The New Reagan Revolution," liberal Democrats have a history of going behind the backs of the American people to cut deals with the Russians. From 1978 through 1980, when Sen. Edward M. Kennedy challenged then-President Jimmy Carter in the primaries, Kennedy sent former Sen. John Tunney as a go-between to contact the Soviet KGB. Kennedy tried to coax the Soviets to sabotage Carter, the sitting president of Kennedy's own party, to boost Kennedy's election chances.

Kennedy offered to blast Carter's policy toward the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in exchange for Soviet cooperation. Kennedy also offered to help the Soviets get their message out to the American people by bringing TV news anchors Walter Cronkite and Barbara Walters to Moscow to interview Soviet leader Yuri Andropov.

President Carter also played that game, sending industrialist Armand Hammer to meet with Soviet ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin. Carter asked the Soviets to allow Jewish refuseniks to emigrate to Israel — a move to improve Carter's standing with Jewish voters. If the Soviets cooperated, Carter promised to "remember" their help. The Soviets rejected Carter's overture.

After Ronald Reagan became president, Carter tried to use the Soviets to undermine the Reagan presidency. In January 1984, Carter went to Ambassador Dobrynin and told the Soviet emissary that the world would be better off without Reagan in the White House. That same year, House Speaker Tip O'Neill took Dobrynin aside and told him it was in the best interests of the Soviets and Democrats to keep "that demagogue Reagan" — a "dangerous man" with "primitive instincts" — from being re-elected.

Liberal Republican Sen. Charles Percy also visited Dobrynin, coaching the Soviets on how to win concessions from Reagan during arms control talks. It must have amazed Anatoly Dobrynin to see this parade of liberal American leaders pass through his office, advising him on how to undermine the American president and America's national security.

It's troubling to think that liberal American leaders would collaborate with a hostile government to undermine President Reagan at the height of the Cold War. Yet, that's exactly what they did.
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I won't get into Obama's secret promises of flexibility offered to Putin and FDR's dealings with the USSR.

No patriotic American should ever vote Democratic.

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