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Deja Vu all over again: New cold war with same old players. 

Presidential contender Barack Obama told a group of Cold War reeanactors that he’d avoid another Cold War victory by offering the Russians Georgia and maybe throwing Alabama at the Ruskies.

“It is time for a change, even if that change means we must go back to it being exactly the way it was,” Obama said during a speech for Cold War reenactors, who gathered at their annual convention held in Moscow, Pa. “This is a time for slogans, not words.”

Obama said Cold War-era President Jimmy Carter didn’t go far enough to lose the first Cold War, a mistake his administration would not make again.

“I plan on losing Afghanistan, Belarus, Georgia, even Alabama if I have to,” Obama said. “Whatever it takes.”

Obama did promise a return to higher taxes, coupled with failed economic policies of the Carter administration, like wage-price controls, windfall profits taxes and fees on wide ties and bell-bottom pants.

Lenny Berkstein, of Altoona, who portrays former Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev, was pleased with the speech. “Obama really has a way with words,” Berkstein said. “He kept his shoes on, too, and that always impresses me.”

A Richard Nixon reeanactor named Franklin Guthsome, of Philadelphia, isn’t so sure. “Let me make one thing perfectly clear,” Guthsome said. “Mr. Obama must know that Communism isn’t sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting, and making sweet, sweet love to the Democratic party.”

The convention concluded with a That ’70s Show cast reunion and a reenactment of the failed Iranian hostage rescue. Obama took copious notes on both, an aide said.

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