Russian Missiles, the Border and Food Stamp Movie Passes

Mark Levy
Fri, 18 Jul 2014 21:00:00 -0700
Opinion

Dear Mark: Well, who could've imagined with Barack Obama leading the world that the situation between Russia and the Ukraine could have ever gotten worse? Now a Malaysian airliner full of innocent passengers has been shot down over Ukraine. I don't care who pulled the trigger because we know that the missiles were given to the Pro-Russia rebels by Vladimir Putin. What do you think our illustrious president is going to do? — P.O.'d in PA

Dear P.O.'d: President Obama will probably play nine holes of golf instead of 18, give a speech full of empty promises about international repercussions, and then jet off to a Democrat fundraiser. I'm sorry; did that sound snarky?

From the outside it appears that the "reset" button Hillary Clinton proudly pressed with the Russians has backfired. Unless of course it meant Vladimir Putin could "reset" Russia back to the cold war era.
Updated: Sat Jul 19, 2014

Dear Mark: Well, who could've imagined with Barack Obama leading the world that the situation between Russia and the Ukraine could have ever gotten worse? Now a Malaysian airliner full of innocent passengers has been shot down over Ukraine. I don't care who pulled the trigger because we know that the missiles were given to the Pro-Russia rebels by Vladimir Putin. What do you think our illustrious president is going to do? — P.O.'d in PA

Dear P.O.'d: President Obama will probably play nine holes of golf instead of 18, give a speech full of empty promises about international repercussions, and then jet off to a Democrat fundraiser. I'm sorry; did that sound snarky?

From the outside it appears that the "reset" button Hillary Clinton proudly pressed with the Russians has backfired. Unless of course it meant Vladimir Putin could "reset" Russia back to the cold war era.

What President Obama should do is adopt George Bush's "cowboy mentality" and immediately institute harsh economic sanctions on Russia, and also open up the United States energy industry's ability to supply Europe with natural gas. That action is simply to bring Putin and the European leaders to the negotiating table. Once that has occurred, all parties can discuss Russia pulling out of the Ukraine and ending this conflict.

As of the release of this column, Russia's blood is all over this Malaysian airliner tragedy, and if this incident doesn't motivate President Obama to take bold action, then his legacy of being a worse foreign policy president than Jimmy Carter is sealed.

Dear Mark: The situation with illegal immigrant children crossing our border is driving me insane. We've now got a humanitarian crisis that the United Nations wants to stick its nose in, and it could have been avoided if our stinking president had just enforced the current immigration laws instead of pandering for Hispanic votes. What is going on here? — Coastal Connie

Dear Coastal: This is now a situation where liberal vote pandering has met reality. Back in 2012, President Obama decided to sign an executive order that basically ordered federal agents to stop deportation of illegal immigrants if they entered the United States as "children." To cover his butt, he put in a few vague stipulations such as illegal immigrants had to have come to the United States before the age of 16. There is no way to prove that other than taking their word. Whoop-de-do.

During his Rose Garden remarks back in 2012, President Obama claimed his executive orders would make the current immigration policy "more fair, more efficient and more just." He's right; his policy has made it more efficient for illegal children to stampede across our border and into our pocketbooks.

Dear Mark: Our liberal government must be the most idiotic in history. The USDA under barrack Obama wants to give free movie tickets to food stamp recipients when they make the proper food choices. What about those of us who eat right using our own money? — Tea Party Tom

Dear Tom: Great. Let's send the malnourished to the movies where the taxpayer will probably pay for buckets of buttered popcorn the size of dump trucks. Do you really need any further proof that Hollywood is in bed with Washington liberals?

The USDA is also discussing talking shopping carts and better lighting in the produce departments. Talking shopping carts — really? When I go to the grocery store, I can't find a shopping cart with four wheels that roll in the same direction. What makes the USDA think that the voice box in a talking shopping cart will last more than a week? Go ahead and add this to the list of wasted taxpayer money because that study cost us over $1 million. Sheesh!