Now on his second Hawaiian vacation of the year, Obama’s pecs make the top of the news:
More than a dozen photographs of a bathing suit-clad President-elect Barack Obama surfaced online Monday showing the shirtless Chicagoan accompanied by his wife, Michelle, and their two young daughters on the white-sand beach in front of their vacation home.
More at Bauer Griffin.
Some are swooning, but not the Russians. From Real Clear World Blog, the Russians won’t be falling in love with The One:
Russia Prepares for Local Wars (and the US)
Recently, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Nikolai Makarov spoke at the Military Academy of the need to continue Russian military rearmament, since the United States “… continues to surround us with military bases, and such bases can even appear in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. American military bases are all over the world, including Europe. If anyone thinks that the world situation will get better because a new administration will enter the White House, then he is sadly mistaken.” Makarov stated that under such circumstances, Russia must place its hope in the strategic nuclear forces.
The Russians may have found there most compelling tactic is to simply talk about rearmament and then hopes no one notices that not only are all the new planes and ships still on the drawing board but in some cases construction on some of the new subs and missile cruisers has stopped. With a still shrinking population, a cratered stock market that lost almost 80% of its value, pensions not being paid and oil and natural gas at prices not seen since the last time the Russian economy went belly up what is left to do but talk tough.
Yes, there are going to be many O-voters who will be sadly mistaken as well.
hes not on vacation he’s there to finally put his grandmother to rest.