On January 20, 2017, the Obama
presidency will be over and top
Russian officials can’t wait.
“God created the world in seven
days,” Russian Foreign Ministry
spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said
this week on her Facebook page. “The Obama administration has (seven plus) two more days to destroy it.”
Aleksey Pushkov, a member of the
Russian Parliament and acerbic
Tweeter, heaped scorn on Obama
and his policies.
“The democratic process in the USA
was undermined not by Russia but by the Obama administration and the media who supported (Hillary)
Clinton against Trump,” he wrote
recently. “The threat to democracy is
inside the USA itself.”
Others aren’t as measured. Vladimir
Zhirinovsky, politician and perpetual
gadfly never at a loss for
inflammatory comments, told
Russian news agencies in December: “Obama should get a D for flunking because of his performance as a head
of such a huge state as America.”
Some of these venom might be a
reaction to Obama’s own dissing of
Vladimir Putin, in 2013 when he
described the Russian President as
having “that kind of slouch,” looking
like the “bored kid in the back of the
classroom.”
