Obama cancels meeting with Putin amid Snowden tensions

Fox News ^ | August 7, 2013

[don-o]

n a rare diplomatic snub, President Obama is canceling plans to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow next month.

The decision reflects both U.S. anger over Russia's harboring of National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden and growing frustration within the Obama administration over what it sees as Moscow's stubbornness on other key issues, including missile defense and human rights.

Obama will still attend the Group of 20 economic summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, but a top White House official said the president had no plans to hold one-on-one talks with Putin while there. Instead of visiting Putin in Moscow, the president will add a stop in Sweden to his early September travel itinerary.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Puttie could give a rip.

[penelopesire]

So much for Hillary’s ‘Reset Button’.

Obama and Hillary’s foreign policy is falling apart all over the world. Gads....

[don-o]

Peter Doocy ‏@pdoocy 9m "Putin is acting like a school-yard bully and doesn’t deserve the respect a bilateral summit would have accorded him”- Sen Schumer (D-NY) Retweeted by Bret Baier

[Sacajaweau]

OMG....Those are sooooo funny. Thanks for posting.

[jimjohn]

So far, winner: Putin.

Reasons: His political stock (and respect) just went up in the world. You folks may not have heard, but during his African trip, a few of the leaders over there refused to meet with him too, it just wasn’t reported too much in the news.

And another thing: The anti-gay policies (wise, in my opinion) aren’t just Putin. I believe the votes in their legislature were either unanimous, or pretty close to it.

[don-o]

Picture = a thousand words. Well done.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Nice work, but WADR, a better pick of Obie against Putin's martial arts take down would be Obie's little fairy dance while watching a martial arts take down.

just a suggestion...

[silverleaf]

oh no, could this mean Putin and his minsters may line up and ignore obama when he tries to shake hands?

Oh

Wait

Too bad Snowden can’t tell us what private terms of endearment the Russians use for Jug Ears

[OneWingedShark]

Rare? Does anyone else remember the DVDs?

[Utah Binger]

Can’t make chicken salad out of chicken shit.

[DTogo]

Obama on 6/27/13: “I’m not going to be scrambling jets to get a 29-year-old hacker,”

Obama on 8/7/13: Not going to be meeting with Putin because of a 29-year-old hacker.

[ConservativeStatement]

“World peace 1.20.09.”

[silverleaf]

I think when the phone call comes in at 3AM it goes to Valerie Jarrett and Putin is onto women like her

His country’s history is replete with people like Valerie Jarrett

[vox_freedom]

Did he announce it on Jay Leno? //sarc

[Jeff Head]

Wow! I am sure this is going to scare the living daylights out of Putin.

NOT!

Putin is probably relieved he does not have to sit around and listen to the narcissist pansy go on and on about himself.

George Bush knew how to deal with Putin.

And Putin knew it and respected it.

[silverleaf]

you cannot believe the happy gay community will ever allow the US to participate in the Russian Olympics

Kiss that one gone right now

[dfwgator]

Well at least the Men’s Figure Skating team, that’s for sure.

[silverleaf]

George Bush invited Putin to his ranch and fed him bull testicles

ah for the good ol’ days

[don-o]

Carney will probably try and sell this as a cost cutting measure.

No daily WH briefing (aka The Zombie Hour) today. But, Obama is speaking to Marines at Pendleton this afternoon

[FreeAtlanta]

Putin on the Obamiditz!