One of my all time favorite Rockwell paintings. Notice the bored kid dreaming of freedom.
Posted on 08/09/2013 6:39:03 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday denied he has poor relations with Vladimir Putin after canceling their Moscow talks, but said the Russian president can sometimes appear "like a bored kid in the back of the classroom."
U.S.-Russian relations plunged to one of their lowest points since the Cold War this week after Russia granted temporary asylum to fugitive former U.S. spy contractor Edward Snowden. Obama retaliated by abruptly canceling a Moscow summit with Putin planned for early next month.
At a White House news conference on Friday, Obama insisted that he does not have bad personal relations with Putin. The two men had a testy meeting in June in Northern Ireland and from the photos of them at the time, it looked as if they would both rather have been somewhere else.
"I know the press likes to focus on body language, and he's got that kind of slouch, looking like the bored kid in the back of the classroom. But the truth is that when we're in conversations together, oftentimes it's very productive," Obama said.
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Did anyone notice him giving the Bird again? Why doesn’t the news media call him out on that?
This from an extremely immature child president.
Will Putin will have his revenge? Da.
I think Russians are more popular than ever in the USA...
Impeachment File on Communist, Benghazi Coward “B. Hussein Obama,” formerly known as Barry Soetoro, currently a Legal Citizen of the Sovereign Nation of Indonesia.
Obama is the equivalent of a 5 year old.
He’s a pathetic, national embarrassment. We will never recover from his reign in our lifetimes.
Putin Describes Obama as Funny Queer not Funny HaHa.
Putin thinks obama is commie-lite.
They go over to Russia with a list of demands and then ask “oh by the way can we have that Snowden guy back?” That’s not going to work.
I also suspect, on some level, that Putin sees himself as leader of a nation and not as a globalist who needs to move his country towards an imaginary utopia where all orders come from the UN.
more smart diplomacy from Obama, comparing Putin to some bored kid
Russia does not have gay pride marches in their army.
Egypt does not have gay pride marches in their army.
There will be no gay events at the Olympics.
Obama is butt hurt.
"I know the press likes to focus on body language, and he's got that kind of slouch, looking like the bored kid in the back of the classroom. But the truth is that when we're in conversations together, he's so sexy and masculine, he makes me feel incredibly secure in my insecurity... sometimes I ask him to whisper KGB secrets in that amazing, husky accent he has...oftentimes it's very productive in a way things rarely are with anyone but Reggie," Obama said.
I had never seen that one before. Fascinating. Norman Rockwell captured America like no other artist. Sadly, I believe that America no longer exists.
That one isn’t Americana. That one is titled “Russian Schoolroom” and it speaks volumes about Russia of the day.
I think we once had presidents like that. Long ago... far away.
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