Vlad the Hammer vs Obama the Wimp

This is getting ridiculous. The President of the United States (POTUS) screamed and shouted because he wanted his spy (Edward Snowden) back. Snowden, following Russian laws, was granted temporary asylum. The White House was "disappointed".

Then POTUS snubbed the bilateral summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow coinciding with the Group of 20 in St Petersburg in early September. The Kremlin was equally "disappointed".

Putin sent a telegram to George "Dubya" Bush - wishing him a quick recovery from heart surgery. [1] POTUS went to a US talk

show and said Russia tended to "slip back into Cold War thinking and a Cold War mentality."

Brechtian distancing tells us that "ridiculous" does not even begin to describe it. The Cold War mentality is actually impregnated in the Beltway genes - from Capitol Hill to the Pentagon. As for POTUS, he acted like a diplomatic dilettante at best. "Yes, We Can" has morphed into "Yes, We Scan"; and now it's "Yes, We Scorn". This may apply to assorted poodles of European breeding, but it won't stick to Vlad the Hammer.

The White House justified its decision by "lack of progress" on everything including missile defense, arms control, trade and commercial relations, global security issues, human rights and civil society. Nonsense; this was all about an impotent POTUS prevented from prosecuting his war against whistleblowers. Putin's foreign affairs adviser, Yury Ushakov, was closer to the truth when he said, "The US is not ready to build relations on an equal basis."

1 posted on 08/13/2013 12:29:16 AM PDT by TexGrill

American citizens fleeing America to seek asylum in Russia is another of the peculiar highlights of the obama administration. Things sure have changed since the “duck-and-cover” days of the 50s and 60s..

2 posted on 08/13/2013 12:36:29 AM PDT by clearcarbon

This is a President: .......This is a president on drugs:

Any questions???

3 posted on 08/13/2013 12:41:22 AM PDT by null and void (Frequent terrorist attacks OR endless government snooping and oppression? Soon we'll have both!)

Somewhere in there someone should bring up Pelosi in an S&M outfit.. just to make people throw up a little in their mouth

4 posted on 08/13/2013 12:46:49 AM PDT by GeronL

5 posted on 08/13/2013 12:55:40 AM PDT by kingattax (99 % of liberals give the rest a bad name)

Well - at least Putin had a real job - working for the KGB - but he still was paid a hard earned pay check - nothing was given to him — Obama can’t say that!

6 posted on 08/13/2013 2:53:57 AM PDT by BCW (Book - http://babylonscovertwar.com/index.html)

He-man

She-man.

7 posted on 08/13/2013 4:41:35 AM PDT by Flick Lives (We're going to be just like the old Soviet Union, but with free cell phones!)

I am no fan of Russia or Putin, but indeed, Obama looks like a wimp on both this and the gay controversy in Russia. Obama is “disappointed”. Ooooooh.

8 posted on 08/13/2013 2:56:05 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Patton)

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