INCREDIBLE – AT 8:45 AM. ET:  If you don't think Obama has weakened America, just read this, from CNS: 

The White House says Vice President Joe Biden called Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych on Tuesday, to express "grave concern" about government forces battling protesters in the streets where they're camped.

Tuesday's deadly violence follows three months of escalating tensions over Ukraine's future -- whether it will align with Europe, as the protesters are demanding -- or Russia.

Why didn't President Obama call Yanukovych himself? MSNBC's (liberal) Rachel Maddow asked NBC correspondent Andrea Mitchell Tuesday night.

Biden's call was "not the highest level," Mitchell conceded. "And the very fact that (Russian President) Putin has said, 'Stay out of my back yard,' would mean it would be almost too much of an affront for President Obama himself to get involved," Mitchell said.

"One of the issues here has been this tug of war between Putin saying 'this is my territory,' and the United States saying that we and the E.U. have a vested interested in this."

COMMENT:  The president of the United States can't make a phone call because a KGB thug might get offended?  The weakest president we've ever had.  I am embarrassed.

February 19,  2014