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Originally Posted by russotto
Bush lecturing Putin on freedom and democracy would be a bit more understandable if he actually believed in it himself. Or could convincingly fake it. Reagan fell into one of those two categories; Bush sure doesn't.
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Rather ironic that the man who would criticize Putin for diminishing freedom in Russia is the same man who threatens American freedom with the Patriot Acts.
They can enter your house, secretly. If they find something, then they can now go to a judge, get a search warrant, come back, and claim they found that evidence. Without violating the Fourth Amendment? This same man who so threatens American civil rights would criticize Putin? This same president who authorizes torture and denies due process in Guantanamo (where most every prisioner is now admittedly innocent) would criticize the Russians? This same man who lies to the world so that he can unilaterally attack another sovereign nation would criticize Putin for actions in the Caucuses?
Does not matter. Anyone, such as Europeans or the NY Times, who would note these glaring discontinuities must be anti-American. God's chosen president could not be wrong.