This thought has been sliding around in the back of my brain since Inauguration Day. I know most folks will say that's crazy talk and that Putin and Obama didn't like each other, but I'm not so sure that's true. Remember Obama's hot mic incident when he got caught telling Dmitry Medvedev, the out going Russian President and Putin sock puppet, that Vladimir Putin should give him more "space" and that "after my election I have more flexibility." That sounds more like a comrade in arms than an enemy.
But I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's start by looking at their beginnings.
Putin was raised in the communist system and trained in the old KGB and prospered in that system. Obama was raised by a socialist/communist mother and mentored by the likes of Frank Marshall Davis, an avowed socialist, as a child. He then trained in the Saul Alinsky inspired organization ACORN and prospered in the halls of academia, which everyone concedes is a hotbed of leftist thought.
Putin then rose to power and ruled Russia as a dictator not an elected leader. Obama was swept into office and he proceeded to rule as a dictator. (He mistakenly thought people loved his leftist policies when I believe most non-blacks who voted for him were trying to assuage their liberal education induced guilt about slavery which has been outlawed in America for over 150 years.) When he no longer had the majority in the house and senate and couldn't ram his policies down our throats through legislation, he did it through extra-constitutional executive orders. (Which the spineless old school Republicans loudly cried about but did nothing to stop.)
When Putin was forced to leave office due to Russian constitutional1 mandates against holding power any longer, he put a puppet in place and has ruled quite visibly from the sidelines ever since. Obama had to leave office due to our Constitution and attempted to put his fellow traveling puppet, Hillary, in place. When that failed, even though they pulled every dirty trick in the book, first to keep Bernie out (Obama and Hillary couldn't control him) and then to try and beat Donald, he has called upon his deep state allies. Even, in an unprecedented move during my lifetime, moving to Washington DC to remain highly visible to his sycophants in the press and to try and rule in absentia through the left leaning permanent bureaucrats in the federal government.
It is widely believed that Putin as killed many of his rivals in order to maintain his grip on power. Obama has figuratively killed those who oppose him. This can be seen from the likes of General Flynn to Bernie Sanders to his attempts on Jeff Sessions and even Donald Trump.
Now I suppose I could be mistaken that Alexandr Putin is Barack Obama's role model, but it sure looks that way to an old farm boy.
