Posted on 06/19/2012 12:55:28 PM PDT by Kaslin
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RUSH: This Obama and Putin thing in the New York Times.
This is not good.
According to the New York Times, Putin and Obama spent a couple hours talking together and it doesn't seem to have been very friendly. The New York Times says that Putin "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. ...
"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 [that's us] 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." So Putin was basically telling Obama, "You're a failure."
Putin was telling President Kardashian, "You're a boob! You can't even manage things in Egypt. You can't manage things in the Middle East. You're an absolute disgrace." But there were no open microphones. All of this has been assessed because of body language. So yesterday and last night, we put together a montage here of NBC's F. Chuck Todd, Jennifer Griffin at Fox, Jacob Tapper at ABC, Lou Dobbs, Ed Rollins, John King, Dan Lothian, and a whole bunch of people obsessed with Putin's "body language."
F. CHUCK TODD: (b-roll noise) Most striking about the public meeting: the two leaders' apparent body language.
JENNIFER GRIFFIN: (b-roll noise) Their body language suggested the gaps in their position had not been bridged and the relationship may not have been reset.
JACOB TAPPER: (outdoor noise) The body language between President Obama and Putin...
LOU DOBBS: If you watched the body language there...
ED ROLLINS: You can see his body language.
JOHN KING: Looking at that body language...
DAN LOTHIAN: The body language tells a lot of the story here.
DAVID "RODHAM" GERGEN: ...Just the body language.
WOLF BLITZER: If you looked at that body language between Presidents Putin and Obama in, uh, Mexico today at the G-20 summit, it was not pretty indeed.
RUSH: How do they all end up saying the same stuff? "Body language." "Gravitas." They all end up saying the same thing! No matter what network you tune to, they all say the same thing. This was a transition. Transition is what Obama was demanding. And Putin just told Obama all of his transitions have failed. What these people don't realize is Obama's gonna have more "flexibility" with his body language after the election after he wins.
Putin Lectures Obama At Tense Meeting
And that's gotta be another thing upsets Obama because he told Medvedev, "Tell Putin I'm gonna have a lot more flexibility after November when I win." Putin apparently didn't want to wait for that. He wants flexibility from Obama now, and he's not getting it. So he lectured him. And our guys in the media say it just doesn't look good. It's not been a "bad week" for Obama; it's not been a bad two weeks. We're now coming on a bad month for Obama.
So in Los Cabos... Have you ever been there, Snerdley? You ever been to Los Cabos? (interruption) You've been to Cabo Wabo? How about it? (interruption) It is a great place down there. I had a lot of fun. I honeymooned in Los Cabos. Anyway, during the daily press briefing, Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes spoke, and this what he said about the issue of body language during Obama's meeting with Putin.
RHODES: This isn't the first, em, Body Language-gate that we've had, uh, with the Russians. When we were in Deauville, uh, President Medvedev -- who President Obama has a great personal relationship with and one that, uh, I think w-we would describe as a friendship -- there was a similar report that there was this body language and must be a huge problem. You know, these are business-like conversations, uh, between the United States government and the Russian government. (gasp for breath) You know, so (stammering) they're candid and businesslike. That tends to be the demeanor of the Russians.
RUSH: Right. Okay. He's good friends with Medvedev. Deauville. Body language. I don't believe this! So this morning on CBS This Morning, cohost Charlie Rose spoke with Chief White House Correspondent Norah O'Donnell about Obama's meeting with Putin. Charlie said, "What do we know? After all the body language, what do we know about Putin and Obama?"
O'DONNELL: (haltingly) The two men barely looked at each other! You could just feel sort of the tension between them. And the body language really represented how far apart the two leaders remain on the issue of Syria. Interestingly, apparently, President Obama got a bit of a lecture from Putin about some other failed transitions that are going on around the world.
RUSH: Oh! Ooooh! That's what we thought. That's what the New York Times says, that Putin lectured our boy president. I wonder what the Obama supporters say. I wonder what David Brooks, who admired Obama's crease in his slacks, thinks of Putin lecturing our president. I wonder. President Obama "got a bit of a lecture." It doesn't sound good, doesn't sound like Obama was in charge.
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RUSH: It was obvious that Obama had no gravitas standing next to Putin. Go check out any picture you want between Putin and George W. Bush, and you will never see Putin lecturing Bush. You will never see a picture with rotten body language for Bush. You'll never see a picture start talking about how deferential Bush looked and how angry Putin looked. You will not see that. You will not hear that description.
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Putin = evil badass
Obama = evil wimp
Both evil. Obama is doing more to destroy his nation thatn Putin. I mean that both ways. Putin is less damaging to Russia than Obama is to the USA. Putin is less damaging to the USA than Obama is to the USA.
Obama is just wrecking our country. After Romney’s 4 years, Soros will pick another hack like Obama and the ruin of the USA will continue unabated.
Looks like Putin is trying very hard not to laugh
Seems Vlad had had a enough of Barry's buffoonery, and decided that he needed to spell some things out in a way that Mr. Harvard Law could actually comprehend.
You'll notice that Hillary was nowhere to bee seen. I think she and Bill have had enough of Barry's buffoonery too.
Bill Clinton will be the man who will drive the last nail in this morons’ political coffin. He’s been planning it ever since ears dissed him and Hillary in ‘08.
Hey Barry, why doncha try bowing to Putin. That works so well with Arabs.
Whatever happened to the Reset Button?
Obumbles one on one with Putin? Ha! What I wouldn’t give to have been a fly on that wall.
For all her faults, Hillary is the only one I can think of in this administration who might have given Putin something like a run for his money.
So Putin was basically telling Obama, “You’re a failure.”
I agree with Putin!
Putin told the world he thought Hussein was an idiot four years ago. He was right then and he’s right today. I’d high five him on dressing down the clown but I worry just how soon that flexibility will fall through and we give up something major.
BO looks like he’s trying not to cry in that photo! I thought one of his campaign promises was that he was going to change the relationship we had with all the countries of the world since that awful Bush had ruined our standing all around the world! Whatever happened to that?
It’s the Obama administration that has pressed the “reset button” on relations with Russia, scrapped plans for a missile-defense system in Eastern Europe, and toned down the rhetoric on NATO expansion. But it seems Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin still pines for Obama’s predecessor. At his annual meeting with academics, think-tankers, and journalists, Putin barely mentioned Obama but “repeatedly expressed fondness for his friend ‘George,’ “ says Cliff Kupchan, a Russia analyst at the Eurasia Group consultancy. “He clearly has a personal softness for George Bush,” says Kupchan, who attended the meeting.
Why the nostalgia? After all, Bush put in place the very policies Obama is now trying to unwind, and many analysts say U.S. relations with Russia reached a post-Cold War low during his administration. One reason may be that both men respected raw power, not mealy-mouthed diplomacy. As a leader who thinks in terms of zero-sum games and projected strength, Putin could recognize and appreciate a similar tendency in his American counterpart. To Putin, it seems, the man matters as much as the message.
Putin - 2012
Ironic to have Putin lecture Obama since they are both stupid and/or evil about many of the same things.
Looking at the Russian guy, he appears to be biting his tongue, holding back from letting Obama have it.
It wouldn’t do any good, though, because, more so than many heads of state, Obama is physically built to let sensible thoughts go in one ear and out the other.
The Russians thought they were being overcharged for that reset button. Which was actually the truth. Look at the absolute mess Obama and Hillary have done in the Middle East, Europe and North Africa. It has gone way beyond simple overcharging.
About the best we can hope for now is that Obama and Hillary were just being played for the fools they are. Because if they were not, the Russians will get their revenge. You can always count on a Russian for that.
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