CFP: One of the most stomach-turning hypocrisies of the progressive left in their constant criticism of President Donald Trump for cozying up to Russian President Vladimir Putin is that it was the progressive left who laid out the welcome mat to the Russians in the first place.
It was the hypocritical progressive left’s key members like Nancy Pelosi who turned America’s once proud military bases over to former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev, who closed them forever as “global centres for sustainability” right from his tenancy at the Presidio.
“In a speech entitled ‘From Swords to Plowshares’, delivered in the House of Representatives on June 4, 1992, Pelosi cheered the arrival of Gorbachev to the Presidio as a tenant.
“The National Park Service is actively seeking ideas for programs and tenants at this spectacular site. Last month, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev visited the presidio to propose that the Gorbachev Foundation/use be located at the Presidio when the army leaves. In his words, “it is wonderful and symbolic that a military base is being converted for use by the people’. ( Nancy Pelosi: One of Mikhail Gorbachev’s most useful idiots —CFP, Nov. 15, 2006)
“As the cold war ends,” Pelosi continued, “it is, indeed, fitting that this army garrison—one of the oldest in the United States—will be transformed to a monument to peace, environmental preservation and recreation as a global park.”
“Less than a year after Pelosi’s fawning words, Gorbachev and his American pre-funded $3.5-million Gorbachev Foundation moved into new a white, shingled bayfront house at the historic Presidio overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge.”
BFH out golfing?
Just the fact that this hypocritical old piece of crap has been in politics this long certainly justifies term limits.
You know, they keep stressing that Putin was KGB, and once you’re KGB, you’re always KGB. That’s probably a safe assumption. From 1987:
“The KGB, the Soviet Union’s secret police, is enjoying greater support from Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev than any other Soviet institution, according to U.S. and foreign analysts of Soviet affairs. In turn, they say, he seems particularly dependent on the agency and may be in the process of increasing its power.”
…but nothing would come between the left and its Gorbasm…
“The close relationship of the two is particularly striking in view of the contrast between Gorbachev’s image in the West as a liberal reformer seeking increased democratization of Soviet life and the KGB’s image as the Kremlin’s terror agency, with the blood of millions on its hands.”
…and now who knows what is really going on at The Presidio?
http://articles.latimes.com/1987-08-14/news/mn-775_1_cheka
All the while we were engaged in the Cold War for the survival of the West the democrats were telling us that the Soviets weren’t that bad. Terms like McCarthism and red baiting come to mind. Now that the Cold War is over (as President Obama has informed us) they are a huge threat.
The democrats are just a Potemkin Party, always have been, and always will be! Learn history, be smarter!