Posted on 06/18/2012 6:37:28 PM PDT by Steelfish
Face to Face, Obama Tries to Persuade Putin on Syria
President Obama met with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia at the Group of 20 summit in Los Cabos, Mexico, on Monday. By HELENE COOPER June 18, 2012
SAN JOSÉ DEL CABO, Mexico — President Obama and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir V. Putin, finally had their face-to-face meeting on Monday, as Mr. Obama pressed Mr. Putin to work with him to ease President Bashar al-Assad of Syria out of power, a move increasingly viewed by the West as the only way to end the bloodshed that has been under way there for more than a year.
“We have found many common points on this issue,” Mr. Putin said of Syria. But after two full hours together, Mr. Putin was still balking, appearing afterward with Mr. Obama before reporters in a grim tableau that seemed to bespeak the frustration on both sides. During the few minutes that it took their handlers to usher reporters out of the room after their prepared remarks, the two leaders remained seated, side by side, staring straight ahead, with none of the interaction or small talk that leaders usually engage in before the cameras. “We agreed that we need to see a cessation of the violence, that a political process has to be created to prevent civil war,” Mr. Obama said.
During the meeting, American officials said, Mr. Putin spent considerable time pointing to what the Russians view as failed examples of political transition in Egypt and Libya as well as their concern that the West does not have a credible plan for what would happen to Syria’s various battling factions and ethnic groups if Mr. Assad stepped down from power.
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Putin pissed all over him. Obama is no alpha male and that is dangerous because he might do something stupid in the attempt to appear as one.
Vlad is way above Little Barry’s fighting weight. Vlad probably has a rough time keeping a straight face.
Putin got to the top the old fashioned way - muscle.
How did Obumster do it, tell me?
I’ll tell you - his sharp pals Ayers and Dohrn figured out how to game our Constitutional system, and succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.
Oh my that is very gay of you to say that about sweet cheeks.
Sorry, but when it comes to the Communist (or Marxist) ideology, the true believer is Obama and his circle. There are no true believers left in Russia, and there haven’t been for a good while.
the man-boy vs. ex-KGB.
Gee...wonder how THAT’S gonna turn out.
Be looks like pee wee Herman. How gay is that?
I don’t think former KGB agents have a high respect for Africans, or in our case, a faggot halfican, wimpy ass,
“community organizer” who is way out of his league with a gangster like Putin.
He (Putin) privately wonders how this POS got elected.
I’m wondering too , out loud, for the past three and a half years.
But look at the pic. That elbow grabbing gesture by Obum is an attempt to assert power over Putty (some body language experts can explain it better, I hope).
Vlad was a KGB officer before he went into politics. Barry was a law professor. That’s not really even a fair fight.
Barry was never even a law professor. Just a adjunct faculty speaker, IIRC.
Now, if ol’ Vlad wants to go up against a whoop-ass community organizer, he’s met his match!
I believe he was 'guest lecturer' ( and only because some unknown entity pulled strings. It wasn't due to merit), and never a professor.
Okay, almost faculty. Which makes the comparison even less fair to Barry.
You mean letting the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Queda take over isn't a good plan?
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