It’s important to him partly because the expelled Presidente was a Communist, and partly because Obama, too, wants to be President for Life in due course, so removing this guy is a bad precedent for him.
Also remember the deal that Obama made with Putin over the base in Kyrgyzstan.... Protecting this guy may have been part of it.
8 posted on 06/30/2009 6:54:51 PM PDT by Thunder90