On Monday, voting closed in the Russian opposition’s online election. 170,000 had signed up for the process, but only 98,000 actually took the trouble to document their identity. Of the registered voters, only 82,000 actually went to the polls to cast their votes.
The spinning began immediately.
Things are getting pretty hot in Barack Obama’s Russia kitchen these days. He’s catching hell from all sides.
First came the Washington Post, where seasoned Russia analyst Jackson Diehl called Obama’s Russia policy “misguided.”
Next came Vladimir Frolov, a former Russophile, who said that Putin’s inauguration was “ridiculous” and “Orwellian” and based on the “Big Lie.”
Then opposition leader Garry Kasparov condemned Obama’s cowardice on Russia, saying Putin wants to rule like Stalin and Obama is helping him.
Finally opposition leader Oleg Kozlovsky compared the US response to crackdown in Belarus to that in Russia, and found that while the US confronted Belarus in similar circumstances it remained silent when Putin took the same actions in Russia.
In other words, one after another Russia-watchers of every stripe are siding with Mitt Romney, Marco Rubio and the Republicans over Russia policy, rejecting the craven cowardice and failure of Obama and his key Russia advisor Michael McFaul.
