But, to be fair, it wouldn't have been politically expedient at a time when President Obama was making "being flexible after the election" with Russia the centerpiece of his foreign policy....

Obama speechwriter admits that Democrats were "a little off" in criticizing Romney's comments about Russia.


//Former Barack Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau admitted Democrats were wrong to criticize Mitt Romney's 2012 assessment of Russia as "our No. 1 geopolitical foe" during an episode of the liberal podcast "Pod Save America" Thursday.

As Russia has dominated headlines with its interference in the 20`6 election and the investigation into whether members of Donald Trump's campaign colluded with the Kremlin, Democrats are being reminded of Romney's mocked statement in 2012 that Russia was the top geopolitical foe of the United States, citing its support of some of the world's worst actors.

Former Jeb Bush spokesman Tim Miller, a critic of Trump, appeared Thursday on "Pod Save America," which is hosted by a revolving group of former Obama aides. They discussed the recently reported meeting taken by Donald Trump Jr. with a Russian attorney last year, where he expected useful information on Hillary Clinton.

"That was one of our top complaints about ya'll's old boss, that he wasn't standing up to Russia where it was trying to undermine our influence everywhere in the world," Miller said. "The idea that you would take help from these guys is just mind-boggling."

"Look, I'm willing to say that in 2012 when we all scoffed at Mitt for saying that, gee, Russia was our No. 1 geopolitical foe, think we were a little off there," Favreau said, laughing.//

It's nice to laugh.

It almost seems that if these people didn't have double standards, they would have no standards.