President Obama and his allies have defeated their domestic rivals again and again using the tactic of political correctness: accuse foes of being racists and sexists, and they have to go on the defensive and deny the accusations and apologize for politically incorrect statements. This has worked so well, in fact, that the Obama Administration is preparing this strategy against Vladimir Putin. Surely once they accuse him of making offensive comments and being a racist and a sexist, he will crumble, teary-eyed, on television, apologizing and retreating to his office to hide under his desk in abject humiliation.
Unless politically-correct bullying only works in America, where words are considered worse than murder. Gee, you don't suppose the rest of the world actually ignores words and only really cares about actions, now do you? Wow, in that case, we'd be screwed. Oops!