Russian President Joins Obama Campaign: Attacks Romney Over ‘Hollywood’ Stereotype of US-Russia Relations

Now that it is clear President Obama is flexible about US missile defense plans in Europe (but only after the election), Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has reason to support another Obama term.

At a press conference today Medvedev attacked Mitt Romney for promoting Hollywood stereotypes of a bygone era.

Responding to Romney’s assertion that Russia is the United States’ “number one geopolitical foe,” Medvedev said at the conclusion of a nuclear-security summit in South Korea that the statement was “very reminiscent of Hollywood and also of a certain phase in Russian-U.S. relations.”

“My first advice is to listen to reason when they formulate their positions. Reason never harmed a presidential candidate,” Medvedev said, according to news reports.

“My other advice is to check their watches from time to time: It is 2012, not the mid-1970s.”

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“In terms of a geopolitical foe, a nation that’s on the Security Council, and is of course a massive nuclear power, Russia is the geopolitical foe,” Romney said Monday.

“The idea that our president is planning on doing something with them that he’s not willing to tell the American people before the election is something I find very, very alarming.”

Source: IB Times