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Now that Vladimir Putin has Russian troops invading and occupying Ukrainian territory, Sarah Palin was able to take to Facebook to do what she likes to do best: put the blame on President Barack Obama, who had the temerity to be chosen by God to lead this country instead of her.

If you remember back to 2008, then vice presidential nominee Palin, who routinely gets even the simplest facts wrong, predicted that if Obama became president, Putin would be encouraged to invade Ukraine, saying,

After the Russian Army invaded the nation of Georgia, Senator Obama’s reaction was one of indecision and moral equivalence, the kind of response that would only encourage Russia’s Putin to invade Ukraine next:

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Foreign Policy magazine at the time called this a “strange” and “extremely far-fetched scenario.” And who can blame them? The woman making the prediction had no idea what a vice president does during the day, didn’t know what magazines or newspapers she read, and, oh, couldn’t even tell a third grader what the VP does for a living. I won’t even get into the weird +5 Shield of Protection Against Witches™ bestowed upon her by some African witch hunter and the whole deal where she thinks she’s some biblical personage named Esther.

No, won’t go there at all.

Certainly, had Palin become vice president, we would have been assured that Putin would have been so intimidated by having a neighbor who could watch his every move from Wasilla, that he would never have dared to covet – biblically or otherwise – his neighbor’s country. Seriously (can I use that word where Palin is concerned?), the Russian strongman would have been far too busy rolling on the floor and laughing uncontrollably at her inability to hold or load a hunting rifle to even think about invading anybody.

But now, with the indomitable would-be galactic justiciar and holy warrior Palin safely out of the way, and with Russian troops in Ukraine as predicted, Esther, er, I mean, Palin, who quit halfway through her term of governor of Alaska, is having her “I told you so” moment on Facebook, you know, because she can’t have her I told you so moment on steps of the White House, or Capitol, either state or federal, because, you know, she quit halfway through her term as governor (just sayin’):

Yes, I could see this one from Alaska. I’m usually not one to Told-Ya-So, but I did, despite my accurate prediction being derided as “an extremely far-fetched scenario” by the “high-brow” Foreign Policy magazine. Here’s what this “stupid” “insipid woman” predicted back in 2008: “After the Russian Army invaded the nation of Georgia, Senator Obama’s reaction was one of indecision and moral equivalence, the kind of response that would only encourage Russia’s Putin to invade Ukraine next.

It is difficult to find anywhere in this Wasillan Dance of Joy™ a concrete solution to the Putin problem from the former “Mavericks” Palin and McCain. McCain, unsurprisingly, thinks he can make everything better with a full-scale war. You might remember that McCain in February and again Saturday, called Obama “the most naive president in history.”

The not-so-subtle suggestion here seems to be that only declarations of war can disprove allegations of naiveté. Which doesn’t explain why Republicans have been so anxious to blame Obama for Bush’s war in Afghanistan. Or how such a timid and ineffective president could knock off the #1 terrorist of our age, Osama bin Laden and pretty much destroy al Qaeda as an organization. Oh, and by the way, help topple Muammar Gaddafi’s regime in Libya without engaging in a ten-year war to do it. Oh wait! Remember when McCain was a big Gaddafi booster in 2009 and before he decided Gaddafi needed to go? Remember how McCain wanted Obama to squash Gaddafi and then worried that Obama had acted illegally?

Let’s face it, McCain hasn’t been too good with foreign policy himself (or with reality for that matter – he thought he was a Maverick after all), and Palin’s underwhelming experience still depends upon her geographical proximity to Russia. We can let Palin jump up and down in joy that she was finally right about something that would happen in the world, even if she could not pinpoint it on a map, and we should be pretty well used to McCain’s violent swings of opinion by now.

As they say in the NFL, that home of syllogisms, “it is what it is.”

The safest thing to do at this point is probably to simply nod and smile, like you tend to do with people whose mental stability is in doubt. After all, you can’t take either of them seriously anyway, and thanks to you, neither one of them is president. So enjoy a deep sigh of relief that the “Mavericks” are not now enjoying their own second term and leading America down the path to yet another unfunded war, but this time with a nation that can actually shoot back.

Because when you find yourself on the brink, you want a cool head, and there is nary a cool head to be found in Maverick country. There is, fortunately, in the White House, and his name is Barack H. Obama.