Jottings

Medvedev:

“If someone thinks they can kill our citizens, kill soldiers and officers fulfilling the role of peacekeepers, we will never allow this. Anyone who tries to do this will receive a shattering blow..... Russia has the capabilities — economic, political and military. Nobody has any illusions left about that.”

Big, tough, dumb, Russian.


Condi:

Russia is playing a "very dangerous game" with the U.S. and its allies: [She] warned that NATO would not allow Moscow to win in Georgia, destabilize Europe or draw a new Iron Curtain through it.... and said the alliance would punish Russia for its invasion of the Georgia and deny its ambitions by rebuilding and fully backing Georgia and other Eastern European democracies.

"We have to deny Russian strategic objectives, which are clearly to undermine Georgia's democracy, to use its military capability to damage and in some cases destroy Georgian infrastructure and to try and weaken the Georgian state. We are determined to deny them their strategic objective."

Pretty good. Of Medvedev:

She suggested [he] may be unable to exert power behind the scenes against his powerful predecessor, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, or the Russian military. She said she thought the French would be seeking "an explanation from the Russians for why the Russian president either won't or can't keep his word." "It didn't take that long for the Russian forces to get in and it really shouldn't take that long for them to get out."

Big tough dumb Russian toad.


Finally:

Obama: “I will win." --Hillary, months ago on with Katy Couric: "I will be the nominee."

Pelosi on Barack: "A leader that God has blessed us with at this time." (Pelosi on Barack: "A leader that God has blessed the Republicans with at this time... as am I.")

Know-your-power Pelosi

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