Obama Cries Over Snowden

If Obama had any balls he'd have sent seal team six to extract Snowden and to hell with the consequences.

Do you mean that it's the only defense people have when others call Obama a crybaby? Because I pretty much feel that Obama is being a "crybaby" too, although it may be appropriate in this case. Would you rather we put damaging sanctions on Russia? That's a dangerous game to play. We're not talking about Iran here, but a world superpower who took us to the edge of mutually-assured destruction 45 years ago. Obama is in the wrong with his position on the surveillance state and whistleblowers, and I don't want him doing damage to our country to enforce his position. Let Obama pout and stamp his feet, and hope he's satisfied with petty gestures.

In the general sense of "people accuse Obama detractors of being racist when they're not", I disagree that there isn't racism involved oftentimes. There are certainly plenty of valid reasons to be critical of Obama. The thing is, too many right-wing politicians and pundits resort to dog-whistle statements and outright xenophobia when talking about our president. Do you deny this?

doth my eyes deceive me, or is this dude feeding us full of ***?

Putin is a dangerous man, there's no arguing that, but he's hardly a bully. And since when did government operatives become insurmountable titans of politics? If they were good at negotiating, they wouldn't need to be covert.

Now they may not be titans of politics, but I guarantee they can look into a bullshitter's eyes and tell that he is a pussy pushover.

If Obama had any balls he'd have sent seal team six to extract Snowden and to hell with the consequences.

I disagree, & will continue to ignore this.

Another Snowden thread huh? With a pathetic title to boot, not even worth reading I'm sure. Just think, after 2016, 3 of the last 5 Olympic games will have been held in 3 terrible countries as far as human rights is concerned. Russia is a ***country, and Sochi is going to show that off in spades. The President doesn't need to be taking any trips there, and Snowden is irrelevant as to why he isn't going.

Apparently there is this thing called the Group of 20, where the largest 20 economical nation leaders gather together to discuss economic policy and how to screw it up.

Anyway, the Group of 20 is being hosted in Russia, so there is a point for Obama to go.

There ya go.

Apparently there is this thing called the Group of 20, where the largest 20 economical nation leaders gather together to discuss economic policy and how to screw it up.

Anyway, the Group of 20 is being hosted in Russia, so there is a point for Obama to go.

There ya go.

He is going to the G20 summit but he will not be attending a bilateral meeting with Putin.

Question was why he was going to Russia at all.

I gave him a (smartass) answer.

They were kinda vague on the specifics, but the purpose was to discuss more open trade policies. Which is strange, actually, because Russia and the US don't produce any significant amount of things the other imports.

They are the top two military powers in the world and the wallmarts of arms. There are a lot of discussions that take place on who they can sell to without pissing the other one off too much. Georgia, Syria, Iran and South Korea, Taiwan, Egypt, Jordan for examples.