After having resolved never to venture upon the campus of the "University" of Minnesota, lest I commit capital blasphemy by uttering any word hinting at difference between the sexes (dare I use even that word?) and be denounced first to the tender mercies of the Inquisition and then to deserved public immolation prior to the Minnesota/ Wisconsin game - after all that - I got thinking about the summit conference.
We don't really know much yet about what went on during the four hours of private conversation between the Presidents. Perhaps significant progress was made toward the preservation of relative concord between the nations. Within peaceful parameters there is much wiggle room and if I had to go only on the look on Putin's face when they entered upon the news conference, maybe our President did a little more wiggling than he did. Still, wiggling is better than marching sometimes and this was not Vienna in 1961.
President Trump committed an embarrassing verbal faux pas when he appeared to place more credence in the word of a former KGB guy than in our intelligence services . Ecstatic denunciation from the usual suspects can be discounted because the form of it, if not the content, was (yawnnn) preordained. The President swiftly and credibly explained himself, to the satisfaction of discerning critics like Newt Gingrich; Rush Limbaugh correctly pointed out that the consequences of the private conversation are very much more important. Sorry Nancy, I'm not coming over.
I believe, because it has come from credible sources, that Russia did meddle in the 2016 election but I don't think it made a bit of difference to the real America, which stood up and sent Hillary packing (or unpacking, I should say). We should take note of it, assure the Russians we are fully aware of it and let them wonder what our next move might be. They've been fiddling around with our culture and our politics ever since Trotsky had his pipedream of world revolution and Uncle Joe seduced some of the nuke scientists. The Dems, who are their apologists and their avatars in many ways, especially since 1972, are just catching on to that? Ask Van Jones about it.
Also, I understood President Putin to say, in his post news conference interview on Fox, that any move toward drawing Ukraine closer to NATO would be met with a "very negative" reaction on the part of Russia. Uh huh. Jack
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Good points, Jack. You know what I would like to see? Just one news organization asking the question: who else tried to interfere in our election in 2016? How normal is it for countries to interfere? Is this the first time that Russia tried to influence an election in the US? How much money spent by the campaigns and outside groups came from overseas? How appropriate was it for foreign leaders to excoriate Trump during the campaign? Etc etc. These seem like pretty reasonable questions to ask, and yet no one is asking them...
Dr. Waddy: Ditto. MSM don't ask because it doesn't serve their political biases to do so. Conservatives? They've been making some good points in the last few days so perhaps they will ask.
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