Russia Chiming In

It's extremely disconcerting for a former KGB member and ex-leader of a communist state tell the United States that our new RULER His Royal Majesty and Majestic Messiahness, Barack Obama (praise be upon his name forever and ever and ever and ever and ever and... ad nauseum...) that the United States is in need of perestroika. It rather sends shivers up my spine; you?

Gorbachev calls on Obama to carry out 'perestroika' in the U.S.

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has said that the Obama administration in the United States needs far-reaching 'perestroika' reforms to overcome the financial crisis and restore balance in the world.

The term perestroika, meaning restructuring, was used by Gorbachev in the late 1980s to describe a series of reforms that abolished state planning in the Soviet Union.

In an interview with Italy's La Stampa published on Friday, Gorbachev said President-elect Barack Obama needs to fundamentally change the misguided course followed by President George W. Bush over the past eight years.

Gorbachev said that after transforming his country in the late 1980s, he had told the Americans that it was their turn to act, but that Washington, celebrating its Cold War victory, was not interested in "a new model of a society, where politics, economics and morals went hand in hand."

Hm.

I'd rather call on our founding fathers and see what they had to say:

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well organized and armed militia is their best security. - Thomas Jefferson

.... large and permanent military establishments which are forbidden by the principles of free government, and against the necessity of which the militia were meant to be a constitutional bulwark. - James Madison

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards. - Samuel Adams

God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever. - Thomas Jefferson

Whenever people . . . entrust the defense of their country to a regular, standing army, composed of mercenaries, the power of that country will remain under the direction of the most wealthy citizens. - "A framer," 1791

These are the words our new RULER His Royal Majesty and Majestic Messiahness, Barack Obama (praise be upon his name forever and ever and ever and ever and ever and... ad nauseum...) should be listening to.