Bloodthirsty Liberal

The reset button or the red button?

President Obama took leave of his Russian hosts on Tuesday night to seclude himself in his Moscow hotel with his wife, Michelle, and their daughters.

The first family enjoyed a relaxed evening at the O2 Lounge, the super-chic, super-pricey rooftop club at the new Ritz-Carlton, although no doubt the Secret Service first cleared the place of most if not all of the swaggering tycoons and leggy models who flock to such Moscow venues.

Hmmm, so while Obama tells Americans to tighten their belts, and prepares to slap massive tax increases on us all, he dines like a celebrity. BTW, who paid for the meal? Did the taxpayers pick up the tab?

The decision to brush off the Russians on one of his two nights here miffed some in the Moscow government who did not understand why he would not devote the scarce time to his hosts. Mr. Obama had dinner with President Dmitri A. Medvedev on Monday and lunch with him on Tuesday. But with the second dinner slot unavailable, he ended up having breakfast Tuesday with Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin, a known night owl not given to American-style early morning business meals.

I’m all for family vacations—as long as it’s with someone else’s family (ha, just kidding honey). But can’t President Obama find another time to take Michelle and the girls to Ruski-Disney—when he’s not negotiating away the store of our nuclear deterrence? Maybe over a bowl of borscht he could have managed to bring up all those Russian reporters who oddly turn up dead with such alarming regularity.

On the other hand, it would have provided more opportunities for idiocy like this:

Referring to the long history of Russia-U.S. trade stretching back more than two centuries, Obama told an audience of business people in Moscow:

“Along the way, you gave us a pretty good deal on Alaska. Thank you.”

Czar Alexander II’s sale of Alaska to the United States in 1867 for $7.2 million in gold, around 1.9 cents per acre, was regarded by Russians as a national disgrace — particularly once it became clear that the province was rich in oil.

If we’re going to send ignorant buffoons overseas to say imbecilic things to contemptuous thugs, can’t we just send Vice President Biden? He bills at a lower rate and travels with a smaller entourage.