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Did Obama's Sit Down With Putin Change Anything?
Newsweek ^ | Tuesday, July 07, 2009 | Holly Bailey

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, we’re talking about a guy who once tranquilized a tiger in front of the cameras. When President Bush visited Putin’s 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 Barney—this 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 on—citing, 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.” That’s not to say they didn’t disagree—another official quickly reminded us that there was plenty of disagreement, but that it was cordial. Later, Mike McFaul, Obama’s 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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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: obama; putin; russia

1 posted on 07/08/2009 8:53:20 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
Yes, It cemented in Putin's mind that Obama was a lightweight push over.
2 posted on 07/08/2009 8:54:32 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: nickcarraway
...wondered if Putin might try to exhibit some manliness to, you know, the panty-waist American, cocaine-snorting metrosexual.

The way it should have been written.

3 posted on 07/08/2009 8:57:27 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: nickcarraway
Hussein Obama during the 'American' National Anthem

Hussein Obama during the 'Russian' National Anthem


4 posted on 07/08/2009 8:59:12 PM PDT by South40 (Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance. ~Hussein Obama, Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009)
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To: Jim from C-Town

I was thinking the same thing, that it only confirmed what Putin thought about the _resident.


5 posted on 07/08/2009 9:00:47 PM PDT by My hearts in London - Everett (There is a demand today for men who can make wrong appear right. Terrence, c. 160 B.C.)
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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.


6 posted on 07/08/2009 9:01:25 PM PDT by mort56 (He who would sacrifice freedom for security deserves neither. - Ben Franklin)
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"Did Obama's Sit Down With Putin Change Anything?"

Seems that it established Putin as the "alpha male." But then, that comes as no surprise to me.

7 posted on 07/08/2009 9:04:02 PM PDT by davisfh ( Islam is a very serious mental illness)
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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.


8 posted on 07/08/2009 9:15:16 PM PDT by pankot
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Obama thought he was the "Alpha male" until he crossed Putin's path. He already dissed him by praising George Bush on his birthday.
9 posted on 07/08/2009 9:17:44 PM PDT by Roger_Wildcat
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To: nickcarraway

Yes. It affirmed Putin’s knowledge that Obama is an “useful idiot” to the Russians.


10 posted on 07/08/2009 9:27:45 PM PDT by Thunder90
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11 posted on 07/08/2009 9:28:44 PM PDT by Thunder90
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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.


12 posted on 07/08/2009 9:39:38 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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................Later, Mike McFaul, Obama’s chief Russian adviser, offered more details................

“Hillary, I’ll clue you in after I get back!!”

Love, Mike


13 posted on 07/08/2009 9:39:55 PM PDT by aShepard ("OK Class: repeat after me: "BUSH BAD- OBAMA SAVIOR OF MANKIND")
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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!


14 posted on 07/08/2009 9:53:23 PM PDT by RobbyS (ECCE homo)
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Of course it changed some things. We probably won’t know for awhile just what Hussein gave away to the Russian, though.


15 posted on 07/08/2009 10:21:31 PM PDT by arthurus ("If you don't believe in shooting abortionists, don't shoot an abortionist." -Ann C.)
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Only that Obama got a nice free trip to Russia.


16 posted on 07/08/2009 10:34:32 PM PDT by Cedar
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