Doesn’t Edward Snowden deserve to be considered an American hero now, since his whistle-blowing exposed evils that even the president himself acknowledges and vows to correct?
As for Obama, he has no experience dealing with people who slouch in his presence like Vladimir Putin. Obama’s entire adult life, spent in the Chicago Mafia and politics, has consisted of being surrounded by people who want favors from him — people who stand to attention gushing over him while pretending NOT TO BE BORED by his every boring utterance.
Vladimir Putin alone does not need or want anything from Obama. He made that clear when he made John Kerry wait three hours in a waiting room to speak with him and when he gave asylum to Edward Snowden, America’s newest hero whose exposure of the Obama administration’s totalitarian snooping has caused Obama enough embarrassment to force him to reverse course.
I don’t thinking calling Vlad a racist or homophobe will work either.