Obama, Putin meet at last, exchange pleasantries

Tuesday 07th July, 03:02 PM JST

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JoeBigs at 11:24 PM JST - 7th July

VOR at 11:10 PM JST - 7th July Obama appears very weak and completely outclassed by Putin and Medvedez.

Ah yes as usual the far right would rather support another nations leader than our own. How real American.......

Too bad the far right does not understand diplomacy. After 8 years of none I understand they do not understand what it means.....LOL
zurcronium at 11:30 PM JST - 7th July

Bush and Putin: Best of friends

I looked the man in the eye. I was able to get a sense of his soul George W Bush

At the end of their first summit meeting in Slovenia Mr Bush described Mr Putin as a straightforward and trustworthy man.

The Russian leader said he regarded the US as a partner.

"I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straight forward and trustworthy and we had a very good dialogue.

"I was able to get a sense of his soul.

Yeah, and the Bush never met Putin again. What a dope. Obama in one meeting does more than bush did in 8 years for the security of the USA.
VOR at 11:43 PM JST - 7th July

Putin lecturing Obama on the cold war for an hour reveals just how unprepared and wet behind the ears our young president is when it comes to representing America on the world stage. Pitiful to all those observing except of course the cult of Obama.
smithinjapan at 12:50 AM JST - 8th July

VOR: "Putin lecturing Obama on the cold war for an hour reveals just how unprepared and wet behind the ears our young president is when it comes to representing America on the world stage."

'Lecturing', huh? The only one really being schooled here is you, albeit you're more a student like the drunk frat boy former president you had who learned nothing, it seems. There's a BIG difference between talking/telling stories about the Cold War and 'lecturing'. The funniest part is how you admit that even a young, 'inexperienced' president has done more for your country than a 'seasoned' man like the dolt who was in office previous to him.

Good on Obama, and good on Putin. Finally the two countries can progress towards some worthwhile goals instead of having a moronic US government intent of keeping up some outdated game of cloak-and-dagger and making the world less safe to live in.

But hey, a number of fools will do their utmost to find fault with solid, sound logic and change for the better, as they are simply fools.
VOR at 01:00 AM JST - 8th July

face it smith, your beloved Obama was taken to the woodshed by a more experienced politician today.
JohnBecker at 01:27 AM JST - 8th July

VOR, unless you were in the room with them, I don't see how you can have any idea of what was discussed. Why do you assume that Obama was "taken to the woodshed"?
yabits at 02:17 AM JST - 8th July

I get the feeling that the people above really don't really have anything of substance to add to a discussion...

After a dozen lines of meta-talk and nothing of subtance to add, I get the feeling that the prissy scold is lives in one heckuva glass house.
adaydream at 03:33 AM JST - 8th July

SuperLib, you may not remember, but the republicans on JT hawked at Clinton for the first two years out of office, all the while watching george bush take us into a needless war in Iraq. Always crying about his little tryst with what's her face.

george bush is the most recent president to compare this president to for some posters. Some posters may not even remember earlier presidents or were involved in political thinking before Clinton or bush.

I don't seem to remember anything that george bush did in respect to reducing nuclear weapons. Nothing. Help me here VOR. SuperLib can you help VOR here?

I do remember him trying to build bunker busters and mini nukes.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=5805098 And Israel loves them

"this bomb is going to be the general-purpose bomb of the next generation," said Yiftah Shapir, a military analyst at Tel Aviv's Institute of National Security Studies.

Barack Obama is attempting to reduce the threat of nuclear arms. He's attempting to reduce the threat everywhere. And these conversations have already gotten an agreement for this year alone. There's still 3 and maybe 7 more years that Obama can work on this effort. < :-)
DickMorris at 06:16 AM JST - 8th July

Well done Obama exchanging smiles with the Hitler of the East. Putin is pure evil. Bush saw the devil in his eyes!!!

Putin and hus puppets have managed to persude the appeaser to reduce are detterent to a minimum allowing us open to an attack by the next BIn Laden or Saddam. This meeting makes patriotic Americans like myself sick!!! Putin was a pariah and deserves to stay a pariah , the evil one.
adaydream at 06:57 AM JST - 8th July

DickMorris explain where we are open to an attack. The US and Russia have 95% of the world's nukes. We're reducing some by the end of the year, but we're far from open to an attack.

Besides Sean Hannity, Larua Ingram and Glenn Beck (who have no creditability) who says we're open to an attack by anyone? By the way, who is going to attack us? Who is going to come over to our side of the big pond and attack us where we wouldn't be safe from a nuclear attack? < :-)
DickMorris at 08:49 AM JST - 8th July

adaydream: I well known to the moral patriotic posters as the voice of reason and moderation. I will not support a president only elected due to media lies, who i spleasent to the ebil Putin.

Respomd if you can, i doubt it buddy.
JoeBigs at 08:58 AM JST - 8th July

DickMorris at 06:16 AM JST - 8th July Well done Obama exchanging smiles with the Hitler of the East. Putin is pure evil. Bush saw the devil in his eyes!!!

DickMorris I think you put your own spin on the famous Bush quote,"I looked the man in the eye. I was able to get a sense of his soul" because what President Bush saw was a bit different.

Now to straighten what President Bush saw let us go to the source and not anyone else.....

In Presidents Bush's own words;

"I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straight forward and trustworthy and we had a very good dialogue.

"I was able to get a sense of his soul.

"He's a man deeply committed to his country and the best interests of his country and I appreciate very much the frank dialogue and that's the beginning of a very constructive relationship," Mr Bush said.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1392791.stm

I did not see anywhere where Bush said he was Hitler or evil. Maybe I do not have my far right wing decoder ring.

Again before the far right tries to make things up they should first try and see what really happened.....LOL
goodDonkey at 07:19 PM JST - 8th July

Obama did a great job at the Moscow Summit. Agreements on cooperation with Afghanistan that will cost the Russians $130,000,000.00. Renewed joint training operations that will go a long way to relieve pressures between our military leaders. In such a short visit he got agreements to reduce nuclear weapons before the end of the START treaty, which will expire at the end of this year. He did not give in on defensive weapon systems. He did not give in on Georgia and Ukraine joining NATO. He strengthened President Medvedev hand by negotiating with him. This will go down in history as a very successful summit for Obama. He accomplishes all this in just a few days.

Obama said:

"It is our commitment to certain universal values which allows us to correct our imperfections, to improve constantly and to grow stronger over time. Freedom of speech and assembly has allowed women, minorities and workers to protest for full and equal rights at a time when they were denied. The rule of law and equal administration of justice has busted monopolies, shut down political machines that were corrupt and ended abuses of power. . . . Competitive elections allow us to change course and hold our leaders accountable. . . . Governments which serve their own people survive and thrive; governments which serve only their own power do not."

Obama reprimanded Moscow on several points: for its war last year with Georgia; for insisting that Georgia's breakaway republics, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, are independent nations; and for interfering in Ukrainian politics. Obama made it clear that his office believes Russia represses peaceful protests, engineers deeply flawed elections, controls the media, squelches dissent and generally exists without rule of law.

I know the Republican Mullahs are giving out the holy word that Obama has .... well just read the posts above by the conservatives. They pretend he did not accomplish anything. They pretend he gave away something - something that is a secret, which they cannot tell us. They say Obama was weak in Putin's presence. When the Republican Mullahs speak the conservatives masses carry out their marching orders and discriminate the conservative scriptures demanding adherence to the party line. The rest of the world just sticks to the truth.

I totally reject that Obama is the Messiah or even a miracle worker. But how does he do it? How can one man accomplish so much, without giving an inch, in such a small amount of time?
zurcronium at 03:46 AM JST - 9th July

I found him to be tough, smart, shrewd, very unsentimental, very pragmatic. And on areas where we disagree, like Georgia, I don’t anticipate a meeting of the minds anytime soon." PRESIDENT OBAMA, on Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.

Intelligent and concise observation of Putin. Different from 'I looked into the soul of the man', the quote from Bush on his first meeting. Putin played Bush for a chump after his first meeting with him.
adaydream at 04:54 AM JST - 9th July

DickMorris I would answer you, but you never answered my question. All you did was to write gibberish. If you can put together a ledgeable question after you answer mine, I'll elaborate my thoughts. < :-)