With Snowden asylum, Russia hits reject on U.S. ‘reset’ policy

Washington Times ^ | August 1, 2013 | Dave Boyer

[george76]

Snowden’s escape was a personal blow to Mr. Obama, who had spoken by phone with Mr. Putin in recent weeks to appeal for the fugitive’s return to face justice in the U.S.

Some Republicans said it was time for Mr. Obama to reconsider his administration’s “reset” with the Kremlin, initiated with fanfare during the tenure of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

“Now is the time to fundamentally rethink our relationship with Putin’s Russia,” Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican, and Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican, said in a joint statement. They called on the Obama administration to push for expanded missile defense programs in Europe and to “move expeditiously on another round of NATO expansion, including the Republic of Georgia,” which Russia invaded several years ago.

Republican and Democratic lawmakers alike said the move was a serious blow to U.S.-Moscow relations and demanded Mr. Snowden’s return. Some Republicans said Mr. Putin was poking a finger in Mr. Obama’s eye.

The “action by the Russian government could not be more provocative and is a sign of Vladimir Putin’s clear lack of respect for President Obama,” said Mr. McCain and Mr. Graham, calling it a “deliberate effort to embarrass the United States.”

“We need to deal with the Russia that is, not the Russia we might wish for,”

...

Obama was even more circumspect, declining several times to answer reporters’ questions about Mr. Snowden during a meeting Thursday afternoon in the Oval Office with the president of Yemen.

[Baynative]

OK, you can tell Putin its time to show me some flexibility, too!

[yoe]

They laughed at the POTUS (then) and I am sure they are laughing at POTUS now....Russian thugs are more notorious perhaps than Chicago thugs....

[Common Sense 101]

With Snowden asylum, Russia hits reject on U.S. ‘reset’ policy

Wrong, Davie poo.... Russia hits "reject" on the jug-eared moron and his horse-faced libtard loser passing as a SOS. Just because you libtards are too scared to point the finger of blame at the incompetent squatting in the White House, doesn't mean that's were the sole responsibility lies.

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[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

—Some Republicans said Mr. Putin was poking a finger in Mr. Obama’s eye.

The “action by the Russian government could not be more provocative and is a sign of Vladimir Putin’s clear lack of respect for President Obama,” said Mr. McCain and Mr. Graham, calling it a “deliberate effort to embarrass the United States.”—

Vlad knows everything about obama, and everything he’s done.

[DoughtyOne]

Obama promised us a new respect around the world, nations would love us because they were no longer being dictated to by presidents like Bush.

So now Obama tries to dictate policy to Russia, and has insulted the most strategically important allies we've ever had.

What is impressive is his seemingly new found respect for Al Qaeda, the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamaz, Hezbollah, and other foreign and domestic current and former terrorist concerns.  We're even willing to send billions in cash their way.

Not that they respect us, mind you...

Nice job Mr. _resident.  /s


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[Lee'sGhost]

The title is accurate, but there is another way to look at it.

Russia has hit THEIR reset button. But it doesn’t look like a button, it looks more like an extended middle finger.

[DJ Taylor]

Why does this Snowden defection remind me of the Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn defection from the Soviet Union in 1974?

“What goes around comes around,” as they say.

[ScottinVA]

Putin is showing the same level of disdain for Obama and his cabal of clueless clods... he’s just able to act on that disdain with a much higher level of impact.

[henkster]

Hard to tell the difference between Russian thugs and Chicago thugs.

[Gator113]

I stand with Russia on this.

[VeniVidiVici]

The “action by the Russian government could not be more provocative and is a sign of Vladimir Putin’s clear lack of respect for President Obama,” said Mr. McCain and Mr. Graham, calling it a “deliberate effort to embarrass the United States.”

Finally, John McCain is right about something.

[Parmy]

Like Rodney Dangerfield, “He don’t get no respect.”

[maine-iac7]

Vlad knows everything about obama, and everything he’s done

You KNOW he/they know the truth about 'bumbles - and have since before the first election.

I've been praying for years that Vlad/Russia would do us all a tremendous service and spill the beans for the sake of America AND the world.

[rarestia]

I stand with Russia on this.

It's a sad day that I agree with a statement like this, but you're right. Obama is deserving of every ounce of derision one can muster. He's a feckless, fly-laden turd.

[tumblindice]

And we have no respect for Gemini twins McLame and Linda.
That’s the way it works, girls: the Rooskis show no respect for Zero
because they have no respect for him. Like half the country.

[wetgundog]

Putin to Obama “Eat Sh*t, Ni_ _ a”

[wetgundog]

Putin TOP
Obama BOTTOM

if you get my drift...

[libstripper]

Putin’s punking the Mahdi because the Mahdi’s a punk, as in prison punk, and Putin has copies of all the Mahdi’s records, highly derogatory and incriminating records, that the Mahdi’s carefully hidden from the American people, whom he hates and despises.