[PetroniusMaximus]

I knew there was something I liked about those old Ruskies.

[hinckley buzzard]

Kirill Zagorodnov, 25, one of the graduates. “It’s a question of trust, how he behaves, how he positions himself, that typical charisma, which in Russia is often parodied. Russians really are not accustomed to it. It is like he is trying to manipulate the public.”

One Russian who gets it.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

I'm sure that they were equally unimpressed by his fashion goddess spouse.

[Savage Beast]

"respectful, but hardly enthralled"

Would that the Russians could export such sobriety to the United States.

[tflabo]

False messiah’s don’t like it when they are not worshipped
and fussed over dontchyaknow comrades! Nyet!

[God luvs America]

who’s jaded??? the Russians or the NYSlimes in their reverence for zero???

[alecqss]

Moscow has greeted Mr. Obama... as if he were just another dignitary passing through.

Obama's visit was a political disaster; it will take much effort and treasury to recover from which. However, for NYT, the real horror is an absence of signs of Obama's cult following among Muscovites?!!"Just another dignitary"?!! How could they!

[FlingWingFlyer]

So the Russkis weren’t impressed with Michelle’s “glamour?”
Damn. The eunuchs in Obama’s “media” said she was going to knock the Russkis socks off. Guess they were wrong again. As usual.

[KarlInOhio]

Are Pravda and Izvestia not falling for mass hopenosis?

[bray]

In Moscow, Tyrants are a dime a dozen.

Pray for America

[shield]

I guess the commie NYT’s can’t understand why their commie thug wasn’t accepted in all places a former commie country. Most likely it’s cause of Pravda’s articles OR they can actually see through the fraud.

[denydenydeny]

The media assumption with Bush was that when people didn’t like him they were picking up that obviously something was wrong with him and his policies.

Whem people don’t like Obama and his policies, the media assumption is that there is something wrong with them.

[Lawgvr1955]

Russians lived under Socialists like Obama for over 70 years. They have probably had their fill of the likes of him and can sense them from a distance.

[getontwitterfacebknow]

Todd and Sarah would have more positive influence with the Rushkies. Barack Obama, David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel are all very effeminate, which is why Putin disrespects them.

Putin respects and relates more with men like Bush and Cheney and men like Todd Palin. And would want to go on a hunting expedition with Sarah Palin, knowing she was more than able to outshine him. Obama is closer to a vegetarian...NOT a hunter.

[Sundog]

However, Michelle brought glamor to Russia.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

But Mom, the Emperor is naked!

[Zhang Fei]

To me, Ogabe’s lower than a gob of spit on the sidewalk, but because of his radicalism, anti-Americanism and his transparent lack of ability, not his race. To the Russians, Ogabe’s just a member of an inferior race. He could be Jesus, the Buddha, Muhammad and Vishnu rolled into one, and the Russians would see him as a jacked-up n****r.

[Yardstick]

So in Russia our emperor has no clothes?

[Albion Wilde]

"Some Obama aides said they were struck by the low-key reception here, especially when compared with the outpouring on some of his other foreign trips. "

Waaaaaahhhhhh!

[Zhang Fei]

There’s a reason Jews have spent the last couple of hundred years trying to get out of Russia - pervasive Russian racism.