Posted on 07/08/2009 8:53:20 PM PDT by nickcarraway
White House officials have now done two readouts on what went down with President Obama and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at their meeting here in Moscow on Tuesday morning. The assessment: No major drama, at least not that they are talking about yet. We had wondered if Putin might try to exhibit some manliness to, you know, one up the new kid on the block. After all, were talking about a guy who once tranquilized a tiger in front of the cameras. When President Bush visited Putins house a few years ago, the then-Russian prez tried to show Bush up by bragging that his dog was better than then-official White House canine Barneythis according to W. himself, who laughed about the episode later in a talk with reporters at the White House. Did Putin try to besmirch Bo? No word on that, but White House officials have repeated again and again, with some surprise, how well Obama and Putin seemed to get onciting, among other things, that the meeting went longer than planned. Asked if there was any bonding in personal way, the official quickly flatly said no. It was a very interesting morning, a senior administration official told reporters. I think the president enjoyed it very much, and they formed a basis of a good relation upon which they can build and go on from this point in future discussions and negotiations. Thats not to say they didnt disagreeanother official quickly reminded us that there was plenty of disagreement, but that it was cordial. Later, Mike McFaul, Obamas chief Russian adviser, offered more details---explaining that Obama and Putin talked about all the things you imagine we would talk about.
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The way it should have been written.

Hussein Obama during the 'Russian' National Anthem
I was thinking the same thing, that it only confirmed what Putin thought about the _resident.
Did the sit down change anything? Of course it did. Putin is now laughing his butt off. He only guessed that Zero was naive and weak. Now, he no longer needs to guess.
Seems that it established Putin as the "alpha male." But then, that comes as no surprise to me.
What really happened: Vlad dropped his trousers and underwear, showing his testicles to 0 he said: Grow a pair of these, THEN we can talk man-to-man.
Yes. It affirmed Putin’s knowledge that Obama is an “useful idiot” to the Russians.
Sure. They agreed to crush some 1950’s vintage, rusty, old warheads, and Barry agreed to neuter a large amount of our state of the art arsenal of freedom.
................Later, Mike McFaul, Obamas chief Russian adviser, offered more details................
“Hillary, I’ll clue you in after I get back!!”
Love, Mike
It reminds me of Kennedy’s sit down with Khrushchev in Vienna in 1961. Nikita pegged JFK as a pushover and so we got missles in Cuba. Except that Kennedy never seemed so clueless as Obama does. He sounds like Henry Wallace did in 1948, for God’s sake!
Of course it changed some things. We probably won’t know for awhile just what Hussein gave away to the Russian, though.
Only that Obama got a nice free trip to Russia.
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