: : I lived in Moscow as an embassy kid during the cold war
: (early 60s)

: That would have to be one heck of a background.

: I have heard a few people compare the US to the collapse of the USSR, they think we're in much worse trouble.
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Paul Craig Roberts writes today, "Is Obama a hypocrite or merely insouciant? Or is he an idiot?"

I think none of the three. I think he's a vegetable, a non-feeling whore, a luke-warm hand puppet.