Posted on 08/11/2013 2:30:21 PM PDT by lbryce
Senator John McCain says Putin doesn't prioritize US-Russia relationship adding that summit's cancellation merely 'symbolic.
President Barack Obama faced calls Sunday to pursue a more hawkish line on Russia, with an influential Republican foreign policy voice suggesting the US leader lacked sufficient insight over Vladimir Putin's intentions.
Arizona senator and former White House candidate John McCain suggested that comments made by Obama following the cancellation of a meeting with the Russian president did not go far enough to address a series of grievances Washington has with Moscow, including the handling of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Obama spoke on Friday of worsening US-Russia relations but said that he did not have a "bad personal relationship" with Putin, despite the tension suggested by his body language – "that kinda slouch, like a bored kid at the back of the classroom" – when the pair meet.
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No reason to be hawkish with Russia.
We are back to the days of Czarist Russia when US-Russian relations were cordial....They had their sphere of influence, we had ours.
No reason it shouldn’t be the same today.
Obama is half Urkel and half Pee-wee Herman - and the Russians noticed this.
According to the Egyptians, Queeg is a "senile old man." Maybe the Egyptians are secretly FReepers :)
McCain has been one of the strongest proponents of totalitarian government, where there is no privacy for anyone, anywhere, and it’s all a big secret, so the government can strike like a demon against anyone who has offended them, cutting them down, ruining their life, impoverishing them or even killing them.
Maybe he thinks of his time in a Vietnamese POW camp as having been a character building experience that everyone should enjoy.
Well, you can’t be a hawk if you are a black tailed wren
Hey mccain... did they take you over through your “precious bodily fluids”. What do you and sparkle toes want... to nuke Russia now... or just back the chechen rebels?
In the eyes of tens of millions of Egyptians, Senators John McCain’s and Lindsey Graham’s recent words and deeds in Egypt — which have the “blessing” of President Obama — have unequivocally proven that U.S. leadership is aligning with the Muslim Brotherhood.
Republicans built good relations with Russia over 40 years. Hussein Obama is destroying what was built in less than 5 years.
If you’re not the muslim brotherhood, Obama isn’t interested.
Obama has acted like a thug in his dealings with Russia. He’s a clown.
Maverick the flying (or crashing) dildo needs a sock in his mouth.
McCain DEFENDS Obama and al Qaeda.
Does he defend the American border,
or the rule of Law, or conservative principles? No.
McCain somehow thinks he is God’s gift to the USA. How and why the people of Arizona could vote this guy to be their voice in Congress is beyond my understanding. I was many years ago a real believer in the spirit of the people in Arizona when being drafted into WWII service from that State. Now I am just amazed at what goes on in the that State.
I think that they will have to convince Putin to quit referring to His Arrogance as “Nancy” before they will make much headway on the subject.
I find everything about McCain to be repulsive. I get ill every time the clown opens his mouth.
You may be thinking of the blacktailed gnatcatcher. We have a wren couple in our backyard every spring. They chase off bluejays— anything that gets too close. Tiny but tough birds.
McLame would be a crested nuthatch, Osama binbarry: a yellowbellied sapsucker.
That’s the price McNut has to pay for being mac daddies sock puppet.
McCain is only defending the lining of his deep pockets.
——McLame would be a crested nuthatch, Osama binbarry: a yellowbellied sapsucker-—
Your ornithological knowledge seems far superior to mine and I will agree.
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