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Obama describes Putin as 'like a bored kid'
Reuters ^ | Fri Aug 9, 2013 6:21pm EDT | Steve Holland and Margaret Chadbourn

Posted on 08/09/2013 6:39:03 PM PDT by Pan_Yan

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday denied he has poor relations with Vladimir Putin after canceling their Moscow talks, but said the Russian president can sometimes appear "like a bored kid in the back of the classroom."

U.S.-Russian relations plunged to one of their lowest points since the Cold War this week after Russia granted temporary asylum to fugitive former U.S. spy contractor Edward Snowden. Obama retaliated by abruptly canceling a Moscow summit with Putin planned for early next month.

At a White House news conference on Friday, Obama insisted that he does not have bad personal relations with Putin. The two men had a testy meeting in June in Northern Ireland and from the photos of them at the time, it looked as if they would both rather have been somewhere else.

"I know the press likes to focus on body language, and he's got that kind of slouch, looking like the bored kid in the back of the classroom. But the truth is that when we're in conversations together, oftentimes it's very productive," Obama said.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: moron; obama; obamapresser; putin; russia
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To: Pan_Yan

Yes, let’s talk down about a country that has been a rival in world influence, and may yet be again. Genius.


21 posted on 08/09/2013 6:50:41 PM PDT by lurk
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To: Pan_Yan

They ought to get along just fine then.


22 posted on 08/09/2013 6:51:27 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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To: Pan_Yan

Would somebody please tell Obama to STFU...Putin is not someone you want to be poking with a stick and calling silly (childish) names. Putin could probably pull the trigger on Obama’s birth certificate...stupid to mess with him in such a childish way. He has resources zero has never even thought of yet. Not afraid of gays, or Muslims, ya think he’s afraid of Obama?


23 posted on 08/09/2013 6:51:31 PM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag
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To: Pan_Yan
Obama describes Putin as 'like a bored kid'

Project much, Barry?

24 posted on 08/09/2013 6:51:54 PM PDT by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: Pan_Yan

The most unpresidential president I have ever seen. I would love to see Putin beat the crap out of him.


25 posted on 08/09/2013 6:52:38 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: cripplecreek

Oh my. Just looked at it again. Outstanding.


26 posted on 08/09/2013 6:53:58 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: Pan_Yan

Well, like, maybe Putin is bored. What does Obama have to say, other than warmed-over talking points that he’s said a gazillion times before?


27 posted on 08/09/2013 6:54:20 PM PDT by BusterBear
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To: Pan_Yan

0bama’s trying to get Putin to further embarrass America with more of Snowden’s NSA secrets. Neat trick, commie bastard 0bama.


28 posted on 08/09/2013 6:54:42 PM PDT by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
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29 posted on 08/09/2013 6:55:23 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Pan_Yan
Unbelievable.

How far we've fallen in 30 years.

30 posted on 08/09/2013 6:57:11 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Pan_Yan

Much-ballyhooed RE-SET going quite as well as closing Gitmo, I see.

Going to go as well as Obamacare implementation, I trust.


31 posted on 08/09/2013 6:57:54 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Pan_Yan

How “diplomatic” of him.

This really highlights the immaturity of the man child.


32 posted on 08/09/2013 6:57:57 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: Pan_Yan

Obama calling another world leader “a bored kid” is punditry. It’s so beneath and outside the realm of what was once the presidency that it defies comprehension.


33 posted on 08/09/2013 6:58:14 PM PDT by PaleoBob
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To: Pan_Yan

he’s personally insulting the leaders of superpower nations now. great.


34 posted on 08/09/2013 6:58:30 PM PDT by RC one
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To: Pan_Yan

Putin describes Obama as a legend in his own mind. And that his mouthwash isn’t making it.


35 posted on 08/09/2013 6:59:27 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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If he destroyed US/Russia relations while TOTALLY re-building the US economy...?

Yeah, I’d go along with that, sure.

But a LEFTIST going and crashing bilateral relations while ALSO plunging the economy into Davey Jones’ locker...?

That is quite a piece of work, yup.


36 posted on 08/09/2013 7:01:08 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Pan_Yan
There have surely been hundreds of psychiatric papers that touch on *that* little comment.
37 posted on 08/09/2013 7:01:22 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (If Obama Had A City It Would Look Like Detroit)
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To: ThePatriotsFlag

Would somebody please tell Obama to STFU...Putin is not someone you want to be poking with a stick and calling silly (childish) names. Putin could probably pull the trigger on Obama’s birth certificate...stupid to mess with him in such a childish way. He has resources zero has never even thought of yet. Not afraid of gays, or Muslims, ya think he’s afraid of Obama?


I don’t really think Putin has anything. And it’s BECAUSE he has nothing that he took in Snowden. He still has nothing but there are naive people who perceive Snowden is important or chock full of info but the truth is he has only managed to re-state the obvious—that people have no privacy. Geez. Big deal. Are there people out there who thought they did have privacy? Really?

Wow.


38 posted on 08/09/2013 7:02:43 PM PDT by PaleoBob
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39 posted on 08/09/2013 7:05:18 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
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To: Pan_Yan

Right - and what does one make of YOUR petulant puss, 'bummer?

Putin has plenty to be bored abut - having to spend time with a lying, scheming, ignorant whose background, before politics was drugs and scamming success to tax dollars through 'community organizing'

40 posted on 08/09/2013 7:05:51 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (Christian is as Christian does - by their fruits)
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