Obama cancels meeting with Putin amid Snowden tensions

Fox News ^ | August 7, 2013

[don-o]

n a rare diplomatic snub, President Obama is canceling plans to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow next month.

The decision reflects both U.S. anger over Russia's harboring of National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden and growing frustration within the Obama administration over what it sees as Moscow's stubbornness on other key issues, including missile defense and human rights.

Obama will still attend the Group of 20 economic summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, but a top White House official said the president had no plans to hold one-on-one talks with Putin while there. Instead of visiting Putin in Moscow, the president will add a stop in Sweden to his early September travel itinerary.

[TArcher]

Once again illustrating what an effeminate pussy we have as POTUS.

Is that better or worse than having a little man [or little Hillary] trying to compensate for their Napoleonesque inadequacies?

[Steve0113]

The common belief among conervatives (see Beck and Rush) that the notion of natural rights began with the Founders, is similar.

I wasn't aware that they believed that. That's not only nuts, it's illiterate.

[Cheerio]

2007, Obama BASHING Bush

Barack Obama and John McCain both see the Islamic Republic of Iran as a danger; they cite the regime's efforts to seek nuclear weaponry, its hostile statements about Israel and its support of terror groups.

A questioner asked in a July 23, 2007, Democratic debate if the candidates would be "willing to meet separately, without precondition, during the first year of your administration, in Washington or anywhere else, with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea, in order to bridge the gap that divides our countries?"

"I would," Obama said. "And the reason is this, that the notion that somehow not talking to countries is punishment to them - which has been the guiding diplomatic principle of this administration - is ridiculous."

He argued that "Ronald Reagan and Democratic presidents like JFK constantly spoke to Soviet Union at a time when Ronald Reagan called them an evil empire."

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

Ol' Vlad is an evil, bad, KGB dude who seems not to think much of say, poisoning innocent people with polonium.

Keep in mind that Litvinenko was a pro-Chechen propaganda journalist and a convert to islam. Just to put that innocence in perspective.

[OKSooner]

If that's the case then maybe Vlad ain't such a bad guy after all.

Thanks for making my point. :)

[don-o]

WhiteHousePressCorps ‏@whpresscorps 6m RT @JimAcostaCNN: MT @politico: Condoleezza Rice says Obama “absolutely right” to cancel Putin meeting: http://politi.co/1cj9DCx

[OKSooner]

Let’s see... this is all over something having to do with uh... gays, right?

[don-o]

I think the official line is that it’s about Snowden. They take bonus points for the “gay” thing. And Syria.

Plus, they preempt the possibility that Putin might invite him on a hunting trip.

[OKSooner]

" Plus, they preempt the possibility that Putin might invite him on a hunting trip. "

:)

[TomasUSMC]

Snowden and Larry Sinclair book signing tour starting in Moscow....now that would be perfect timing.

[SisterK]

Snowden?
Naaahh....
Syria?
Oh what a tangled web we weave.....