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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.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: moron; obama; obamapresser; putin; russia
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Moron.
1 posted on 08/09/2013 6:39:03 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: Pan_Yan

Did anyone notice him giving the Bird again? Why doesn’t the news media call him out on that?


2 posted on 08/09/2013 6:40:42 PM PDT by Jayster
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To: Pan_Yan

This from an extremely immature child president.


3 posted on 08/09/2013 6:40:58 PM PDT by doc1019 (Get our troops the hell out of the ME)
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To: Pan_Yan

Will Putin will have his revenge? Da.


4 posted on 08/09/2013 6:42:05 PM PDT by rbg81
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To: Pan_Yan
U.S.-Russian relations plunged to one of their lowest points since the Cold War this week...

I think Russians are more popular than ever in the USA...

5 posted on 08/09/2013 6:42:23 PM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood ("Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???")
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To: Pan_Yan

Impeachment File on Communist, Benghazi Coward “B. Hussein Obama,” formerly known as Barry Soetoro, currently a Legal Citizen of the Sovereign Nation of Indonesia.


6 posted on 08/09/2013 6:42:29 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: Pan_Yan

Obama is the equivalent of a 5 year old.


7 posted on 08/09/2013 6:42:51 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: Pan_Yan
Interesting choice of words.

One of my all time favorite Rockwell paintings. Notice the bored kid dreaming of freedom.

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8 posted on 08/09/2013 6:43:09 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Pan_Yan

He’s a pathetic, national embarrassment. We will never recover from his reign in our lifetimes.


9 posted on 08/09/2013 6:44:34 PM PDT by LaRueLaDue
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To: Pan_Yan
Putin describes Obama as a hemorrhoid on the asshole of the world.
10 posted on 08/09/2013 6:45:00 PM PDT by Venturer ( cowardice posturing as tolerance =political correctness)
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To: Pan_Yan

Putin Describes Obama as Funny Queer not Funny HaHa.


11 posted on 08/09/2013 6:45:21 PM PDT by DainBramage
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To: Pan_Yan

Putin thinks obama is commie-lite.


12 posted on 08/09/2013 6:47:10 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Pan_Yan

They go over to Russia with a list of demands and then ask “oh by the way can we have that Snowden guy back?” That’s not going to work.

I also suspect, on some level, that Putin sees himself as leader of a nation and not as a globalist who needs to move his country towards an imaginary utopia where all orders come from the UN.


13 posted on 08/09/2013 6:48:47 PM PDT by Aglooka ("I was out numbered 5-to-1, I got 4.")
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To: Pan_Yan

more smart diplomacy from Obama, comparing Putin to some bored kid


14 posted on 08/09/2013 6:48:50 PM PDT by 4rcane
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To: Jayster

Russia does not have gay pride marches in their army.

Egypt does not have gay pride marches in their army.

There will be no gay events at the Olympics.

Obama is butt hurt.


15 posted on 08/09/2013 6:48:54 PM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood ("Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???")
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To: Pan_Yan
The MSM refuses to report what Obamalamadingdong REALLY said:

"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, he's so sexy and masculine, he makes me feel incredibly secure in my insecurity... sometimes I ask him to whisper KGB secrets in that amazing, husky accent he has...oftentimes it's very productive in a way things rarely are with anyone but Reggie," Obama said.

16 posted on 08/09/2013 6:49:07 PM PDT by workerbee (The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1)
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To: cripplecreek

I had never seen that one before. Fascinating. Norman Rockwell captured America like no other artist. Sadly, I believe that America no longer exists.


17 posted on 08/09/2013 6:49:11 PM PDT by fhayek
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That one isn’t Americana. That one is titled “Russian Schoolroom” and it speaks volumes about Russia of the day.


18 posted on 08/09/2013 6:50:29 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Aglooka
...Putin sees himself as leader of a nation and not as a globalist who needs to move his country towards an imaginary utopia where all orders come from the UN.

I think we once had presidents like that. Long ago... far away.

19 posted on 08/09/2013 6:50:30 PM PDT by workerbee (The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1)
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To: Pan_Yan
Remember at the beginning of Obama's first term, they kept blabbing on about a reset with Russia after complaining about G W Bush. The truth is that under Bush the Russians respected us. Now they laugh at us.
20 posted on 08/09/2013 6:50:33 PM PDT by Flavious_Maximus
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