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Obama makes light of, clarifies hot mic moment
FoxNews.com ^ | March 26, 2012 | Kimberly Schwandt

Posted on 03/26/2012 11:41:46 PM PDT by Hunton Peck

President Obama made light Tuesday of the hot microphone moment he had the day earlier with Russian President Medvedev, where he said that after the November election, he'd have more "flexibility" on the issue of missile defense.

Just as leaders were greeting one another and about to sit down at the opening session of the Nuclear Security Summit, Obama spotted Medvedev, looks over at him, puts his hands over the microphone in front of him with a big smile, and then goes to greet the Russian president.

Obama was asked about the "flexibility" statement later while making remarks to the press about a nuclear safety agreement, and said "Arms control is extraordinarily complex, very technical, and the only way it gets done is if you can consult and build a strong basis of understanding both between countries as well as within countries."

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...he also noted the START treaty took them two years to get ratified.

"I don't think it's any surprise that you can't start that a few months before a presidential and congressional elections in the United States and at a time when they just completed elections in Russia, and they're in the process of a presidential transition where a new president's going to be coming in a little less than two months," he added.

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"[T]he only way I get this stuff done is if I'm consulting with the Pentagon, if I'm consulting with Congress, if I've got bipartisan support, and frankly the current environment is not conducive to those kinds of thoughtful consultations. I think the stories you guys have been writing over the last 24 hours is probably pretty good evidence of that," Obama said.

(Excerpt) Read more at politics.blogs.foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections; Russia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: hotmic; hotmicdamagecontrol; icbm; laughclownlaugh; medvedev; missiledefense; needsomespace; obama; openmikenight; russia; waronterror
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0bama yucks it up with Medvedev, babbles nonsequiturs, blames congress, media, democratic process, while clarifying that he's trying to get "stuff" done. In other words, Same Old 0bama.

Hey, it's only our national security.

1 posted on 03/26/2012 11:41:56 PM PDT by Hunton Peck
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To: Hunton Peck

Krauthammer’s take seems the most sensible: “This is my last election.” Not “after the election, or “after the next election.” It’s either the most unfortunate phrasing O’s ever used or it means ‘my power’s at its peak, no accountability to worry about.’ Funny that impeachment doesn’t occur to him.


2 posted on 03/26/2012 11:48:25 PM PDT by Mach9
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To: Hunton Peck

I smell a sellout looming.....


3 posted on 03/26/2012 11:50:12 PM PDT by Rapscallion (The corruption and mismanagement persist because YOU tolerate it.)
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To: Hunton Peck

“0bama yucks it up with Medvedev, babbles nonsequiturs, blames congress, media, democratic process, while clarifying that he’s trying to get “stuff” done. In other words, Same Old 0bama.”

There FUBO goes again “punching above his weight class.”


4 posted on 03/26/2012 11:53:49 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: Hunton Peck

His clarification makes it even worse.


5 posted on 03/26/2012 11:56:00 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Mach9
Funny that impeachment doesn’t occur to him.

He knows Republicans and the rest don't have the fortitude for impeachment. No, it's not not funny, either..

6 posted on 03/27/2012 12:02:21 AM PDT by oyez
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To: Hunton Peck

President Mau-Mau will get us all killed if he’s not defeated in November.


7 posted on 03/27/2012 12:14:58 AM PDT by Bullish
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To: oyez

This is not an “oppsie giggle, giggle, my bad” moment. This is as close to genuine 150 proof TREASON as any President has ever considered.

He made it clear that he would be acting in Russia’s interests after the election.

If we can’t get him out of office with this on his record, the United States is finished.


8 posted on 03/27/2012 12:18:46 AM PDT by Ronin (Sarah.... We really need you now!)
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To: Mach9

The last impeachment was easily diverted to sex in the oval office..

Republicans fell for the diversion like exercise sweaters to a Richard Simmons DVD....
......Wearing a Pink Turkey Suit costume.. to the Macarena..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na9ZZ4ZjVa8


9 posted on 03/27/2012 12:21:32 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole...)
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To: oyez

So true...we couldn’t take care of a white guy caught on tape lying through his teeth under oath...so we obviously can’t get rid of a “historic” black traitor.

How pathetic is that??


10 posted on 03/27/2012 12:33:14 AM PDT by Aria ( 2008 wasn't an election - it was a coup d'etat.)
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"Obama makes light of, clarifies hot mic moment"


11 posted on 03/27/2012 1:08:07 AM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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Nobody believes you, jackass.


12 posted on 03/27/2012 1:12:44 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Newt/Sarah 2012)
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To: Hunton Peck

freak’in liar!Oh, ye 53% scum suckers. Welcome to hell!


13 posted on 03/27/2012 1:25:41 AM PDT by ChiMark (chewed up his body for a decade)
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To: Hunton Peck
Not yet revealed by the press is that an Israeli reporter accidentally overheard Obama whisper in the Russian leader's ear the following statement, but sadly it was not picked up by any microphone:

"I can't talk about my Selective Service form, my long form birth certificate, and my Connecticut Social Security number right now, but I will have more FLEXIBILITY to talk about them to you after I win the upcoming Nov. 2012 elections, because it is my last election."

14 posted on 03/27/2012 2:53:24 AM PDT by john mirse
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“”I don’t think it’s any surprise that you can’t start that a few months before a presidential and congressional elections in the United States and at a time when they just completed elections in Russia, and they’re in the process of a presidential transition where a new president’s going to be coming in a little less than two months,” he added. “

What does that statement have to do with HIS flexibility? It explains nothing about what he said. Its diversionary.


15 posted on 03/27/2012 2:54:49 AM PDT by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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To: Hunton Peck
How come Hussein was only meeting with the puppet Medvedev? Was Putin too busy to meet with our metrosexual Pinocchio?

Is it that he is being snubbed by the Marx Brothers?


16 posted on 03/27/2012 3:09:31 AM PDT by Daffynition (On Andrew Breitbart: In his honor, I'll fight harder...He'll be back and he'll be millions.)
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>>they’re in the process of a presidential transition where a new president’s going to be coming in a little less than two months<<

Hey Dumbo Hussein....same thing’s happening here. Shouldn’t you be home and packing?


17 posted on 03/27/2012 3:12:36 AM PDT by Daffynition (On Andrew Breitbart: In his honor, I'll fight harder...He'll be back and he'll be millions.)
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To: Hunton Peck

This is the typical pattern; make joke about issue, laugh with press, issue now is off-limits.


18 posted on 03/27/2012 3:25:52 AM PDT by Son House (The Economic Boom Heard Around The World => TEA Party 2012)
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“”I don’t think it’s any surprise that you can’t start that a few months before a presidential and congressional elections in the United States and at a time when they just completed elections in Russia, and they’re in the process of a presidential transition where a new president’s going to be coming in a little less than two months,” he added. “

What does that statement have to do with HIS flexibility? It explains nothing about what he said. Its diversionary.

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Does anybody know what in the world President Flexibility Obama is saying above?

If you have any idea what President Flexibility is saying above, could you please explain it to us mere mortals who have no idea what he is trying to say? Thanks.

Is he saying that he can't do what is best for the United States of America right now, because he is scared that if he does what is right for America's future right now, he could make some voters so mad that he could lose the Nov. 2012 election?

When President Flexibility Obama says that he will have more "flexibility" after the election, what is he talking about?

Is the President of the United States, Flexibility Obama, saying that he has no "flexibility" now? Very confusing.

19 posted on 03/27/2012 3:27:41 AM PDT by john mirse
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To: Rapscallion
Sellout?... I have thought this through, and the only description I can grasp is "TREASON". Sellout mostly infers the need for financial gain. This bastard is hellbent on destroying this country for his communist ideology.

The punk POTUS is close making all those who have died serving this country since 1945 in vain. It is making my head throb that there is not more universal outrage over this in our country.

20 posted on 03/27/2012 3:34:30 AM PDT by catfish1957 (My dream for hope and change is to see the punk POTUS in prison for treason)
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