“KNOW YOUR ENEMY …”
One of the best ad campaigns ever was run by Nike in the late 1980s featuring two-sport star Bo Jackson – the Heisman Trophy winner from Auburn University who went on to star in both the National Football League and Major League Baseball.
“Bo knows,” the campaign theme went, highlighting the various actual and hypothetical endeavors of which Jackson ostensibly had knowledge.
(Here’s our favorite spot from the series).
Anyway, B.O. – a.k.a. “Barry O,” a.k.a. Barack Obama – may also know a great number of things, but he apparently doesn’t know “Diddley” about the country he’s trying to goad into an international conflict.
During an interview with The Economist , Obama offered up his views on the United States once and (if Obama and the warmongers get their way) future rival.
“Immigrants aren’t rushing to Moscow in search of opportunity,” he said. “The life expectancy of the Russian male is around 60 years old. The population is shrinking.”
Here’s the thing … or things.
Russia is home to hundreds of thousands – if not millions – of Central Asian immigrants (strike one ). The life expectancy of the Russian male is 65.1 (strike two ). And Russia’s population has been growing for the last five consecutive years (strike three ).
“By spouting some easily-debunked information, Obama effectively invites skepticism of the accuracy of other White House claims about Russia,” Zenon Evans over at Reason opines.
We agree …
If you’re going to try and start a Second Cold War because the military-industrial complex is hurting for cash, at least get your facts straight.
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Just lil’ bo’ pretending to be’ Big Bo’
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ok – “hundreds of thousands” is a weekend at the texas border; certainly he was correct that there is no ‘rush’. and i’m just gonna guess that any one of those would trade for a US visa in second. two… russian life expectancy has magically jumped 5 years in the last half decade; skepticism is probably called for (something you normally exercise). and population growth is pretty complicated (they recently stole 3 million people from Ukraine). but the long term trend is still down from 1990 – despite being slightly upward for the last 4 years.
Sic Willie don’t want or need no stinking facts! When are you going to learn that?
Fun fact: According to the link I posted above, Russia’s male life expectancy age is about on par with North Korea’s.
You can always tell a Republican. They avoid facts like the plague. Facts tend to have a anti-Republican bias, thus they can’t be trusted.
B.O doesn’t know anything…except maybe how to find the golf course and the next fund-raiser. The most incompetent, worthless president ever.
1) Oh boy, Central Asian immigrants. We have Central/South American immigrants coming here by the millions too! How’s that working out?
2) 65.1 is “around 60” to some extent, but should have been worded as “in the sixties.”
3) Their population has been in decline since the 90s if you look at the big picture.
http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&met_y=sp_pop_totl&idim=country:RUS:BRA:CAN&hl=en&dl=en
Sure, the population is going upwards again, but it still hasn’t gotten up to the near-150 million it had in the early 90s.
I thought Sarah Palin was keeping an eye on Russia . . .
She is…from one of the 57 states BO said he visited.
The pointy finger again! I just knew that (potus) and the (governess) were separated at birth…