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FLASHBACK: Vladimir Putin's tough guy act just a 'shtick' says Barack Obama
The Telegraph ^

Posted on 07/20/2014 9:37:21 AM PDT by TigerClaws

US President Barack Obama said on Thursday that Vladimir Putin's bored, tough guy act was just a 'shtick' designed to boost his domestic political image.

Obama and his Russian counterpart have become known for stilted photo ops during bilateral meetings at various global summits, in which they stare straight ahead and share little warmth or sympathetic body language.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


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I haven't hear it pointed out how wrong an assessment Obama made of his adversary.

Even the far-left SLATE admits Romney got it right and Obama got it wrong re Russia as a threat:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2014/03/03/why_obama_got_russia_wrong_and_romney_got_it_right.html

1 posted on 07/20/2014 9:37:21 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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its probably what obama does himself, which is why he assume others are doing it


2 posted on 07/20/2014 9:42:32 AM PDT by 4rcane
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Not a fan of Putin but — who can blame him for not wanting to be touchy feely with the fruity Kenyan.


3 posted on 07/20/2014 9:42:51 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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Vladimir Putin's bored tough guy act was just a 'shtick'

Tell that to Ukraine. I'm almost certain they will not agree.

4 posted on 07/20/2014 9:47:44 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Obama: Race is his cover...jihad is his game.)
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To: TigerClaws

I just read the Slate article. They even mentioned that Palin accurately predicted Putin’s invasion of the Ukraine. Just wow.


5 posted on 07/20/2014 9:49:10 AM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (See my home page for some of my answers to the left's talking points.)
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Yeah, well, the fact is Obama doesn't give a damn about anything but denigrating this nation and its legacy.

Obama hates the three Cs:

#1: True, classical CHRISTIANITY,

#2: The CONSTITUTION, and

#3: Free market CAPITALISM

6 posted on 07/20/2014 9:49:26 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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its probably what obama does himself, which is why he assume others are doing it

Exactly - projecting himself onto Putin. I think pretty much everything we see from him is just a shtick to zero.

7 posted on 07/20/2014 9:54:59 AM PDT by Aria ( 2008 & 2012 weren't elections - they were coup d'etats.)
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Just another example of Obama foolishly thinking that he is the smartest guy in the room, even though all evidence points to the opposite.

Hey, anybody, how do you pronounce Corpsman?


8 posted on 07/20/2014 9:55:49 AM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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One of the inherent weaknesses in human nature is that people tend to ascribe their own virtues to others. Obama is a pretender who lacks the knowledge, skills and proven experience required to lead any large organization – let alone the world’s most powerful nation. As a pretender, Obama believes that other world leaders are also merely playing at their roles and stumbling along just like him. The potential for a catastrophic miscalculation is very real.


9 posted on 07/20/2014 9:59:47 AM PDT by Always A Marine
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Actual date was February 7, 2014.

Literally weeks before everything went to pot.


10 posted on 07/20/2014 10:03:24 AM PDT by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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In cowboy parlance, “this Obama guy doesn’t ride for the brand...” So why pay any attention to what he says!


11 posted on 07/20/2014 10:07:59 AM PDT by yoe (.)
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I guess he learned that it wasn’t all stick.


12 posted on 07/20/2014 10:10:43 AM PDT by BobL
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I haven’t hear it pointed out how wrong an assessment Obama made of his adversary.

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More importantly it seems, based on current events, Putin has gotten his assessment of the Coyote-in-Chief Obama RIGHT: weak, wuss, timid, coward, all big talk & self aggrandizement - no action.


13 posted on 07/20/2014 10:11:17 AM PDT by Qiviut ( One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. (W.E. Johns)
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"Vladimir Putin's bored, tough guy act was just a 'shtick' designed to boost his domestic political image.

Obamas straight hetro guy act is just a 'shtick' designed to boost his domestic political image.


14 posted on 07/20/2014 10:11:27 AM PDT by Manic_Episode (GOP = The Whig Party)
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If anyone knows about “schtick”, it’s the Grand Kenyan.


15 posted on 07/20/2014 10:23:35 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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Bath House Barry is a beta male that shows his soft underbelly to enemies of the US. The death toll is growing rapidly as our coke snorting “president” ignores the human toll.
16 posted on 07/20/2014 10:40:50 AM PDT by Gabrial (The nightmare will continue as long as the nightmare is in the Whitehouse.)
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Yeah...and Obama's acting like a goofy wimp is also a "shtick"

Obama went on to share that one of the tricks he learned in dealing with whites was that if you were “courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves” people were “more than satisfied” and “relieved” to find “such a pleasant surprise” in a “well-mannered young black man,” one who “didn’t seem angry all the time.”


17 posted on 07/20/2014 10:46:04 AM PDT by spokeshave (OMG.......Schadenfreude overload is not covered under Obamacare :-()
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Acting like a jackass doofus is Obama’s schtick. Or maybe that is the real thing.


18 posted on 07/20/2014 10:48:48 AM PDT by dforest
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President Mom Jeans.

What a loser.


19 posted on 07/20/2014 10:50:08 AM PDT by Lets Roll NOW (A baby isn't a punishment, Obama is)
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To: BenLurkin

Omama has spent so much time in fag bars and bath houses that he’s unable to recognize a tough guy when he sees one.


20 posted on 07/20/2014 11:09:37 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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