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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Yes, let’s talk down about a country that has been a rival in world influence, and may yet be again. Genius.
They ought to get along just fine then.
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?
Project much, Barry?
The most unpresidential president I have ever seen. I would love to see Putin beat the crap out of him.
Oh my. Just looked at it again. Outstanding.
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?
0bama’s trying to get Putin to further embarrass America with more of Snowden’s NSA secrets. Neat trick, commie bastard 0bama.
How far we've fallen in 30 years.
Much-ballyhooed RE-SET going quite as well as closing Gitmo, I see.
Going to go as well as Obamacare implementation, I trust.
How “diplomatic” of him.
This really highlights the immaturity of the man child.
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.
he’s personally insulting the leaders of superpower nations now. great.
Putin describes Obama as a legend in his own mind. And that his mouthwash isn’t making it.
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.
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?
Wow.
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'
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