By CLIFFORD J. LEVY and ELLEN BARRY
Published: July 7, 2009
Published: July 7, 2009
MOSCOW — Let other capitals go all weak-kneed when President Obama visits. Moscow has greeted Mr. Obama, who on Tuesday night concluded a two-day Russian-American summit meeting, as if he were just another dignitary passing through.
Crowds did not clamor for a glimpse of him. Headlines offered only glancing or flippant notice of his activities. Television programming was uninterrupted; devotees of the Russian Judge Judy had nothing to fear. Even many students and alumni of the Western-oriented business school where Mr. Obama gave the graduation address on Tuesday seemed merely respectful, but hardly enthralled.
“We don’t really understand why Obama is such a star,” said 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.”
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Unlike the Americans who voted him into office, the Russians can see him for what he is - a manipulator.
Spoken like a true Russian. Y'all are grabbin for straws.
Our media is the source for this information.
They are setting up a confrontational arrangement between the U.S. and Russia. This is done on purpose.
What's the big deal if the Russians are now more interested in their version of Judge Judy than government and world affairs.
Sounds pretty Americanized to me.
Remember how they built their young lives around obtaining and paying jacked-up black market prices for Levis and designer jeans?
What, you don't think they've seen a communist dictator before? I'm not surprised that they weren't impressed- they've seen better.
quote from the article, speaking about russia-
“It is a jaded political culture that has had a very hard experience with a system that professed universal idealism while delivering unbearable suffering,” said Mr. Malinowski, now Washington advocacy director for Human Rights Watch. “Some degree of cynicism about high-minded ideals is a natural outcome of that.”
This, to me, is where we are heading due to Obama, and It might not be such a bad thing
I was born in Russia, lived there for a number of years and go visit on regular basis and yes I am an Obama supporter.
There are two things that one should consider when thinking about rather mild excitement of Russians when it comes to the President's visit.
First, just as the article states, Russians are blaming the global economic crisis on the US and Obama reprsents the US. Majority of people, regardless of which country, do not realize that, historically, free market economic situation has very little to do with the President's administration or Congress.Is it up to the government to fix it? That remains to be debated...
Again they see Obama as the representative of the United States, and therefore a representative of everything that has gone wrong in the world's economy.
Second, if you haven't been to Russia, please note that Moscow is like a country within a country. It has different standard of living, different values and Moscow citizens have a completely different outlook on life from other people in smaller Russian cities. Moscow is one of the most glamorous and expensive cities in Europe, at least at first glance, and frankly it is hard to excite Moscovites now day. Unfortunately, they are more thrilled by the coverage of MJ death then by a visit from President Obama.
I believe that if Mr. Obama had toured more rural areas of Russia, the reception would be different.
They're not brain washed by the American media like the sheeple over here !
I figured that I would take this time to level the playing field a little bit. Joe, feel free to start a post on this one...Many U.S. citizens criticized our current administration, but I can't help but to think if it would be any better had McCain & Palin taken office. The following Palin comments really make you wonder how people get as far as she did in life! Keep in mind that these were all actually said by Sarah Palin, not simply made up...try to use your best Palin accent while reading these inorder to get the full effect! Enjoy...
"As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where– where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border." --Sarah Palin, explaining why Alaska's proximity to Russia gives her foreign policy experience, interview with CBS's Katie Couric, Sept. 24, 2008
"I think on a national level your Department of Law there in the White House would look at some of the things that we've been charged with and automatically throw them out." --Sarah Palin, referring to a department that does not exist while attempting to explain why as president she wouldn't be subjected to the same ethics investigations that compelled her to resign as governor of Alaska, ABC News interview, July 7, 2009
"We believe that the best of America is not all in Washington, D.C. ... We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, um, very, um, pro-America areas of this great nation." --Sarah Palin, speaking at a fundraiser in Greensoboro, N.C., Oct. 16, 2008
"Well, let's see. There's ― of course in the great history of America there have been rulings that there's never going to be absolute consensus by every American, and there are those issues, again, like Roe v. Wade, where I believe are best held on a state level and addressed there. So, you know, going through the history of America, there would be others but ―" --Sarah Palin, unable to name a Supreme Court decision she disagreed with other than Roe vs. Wade, interview with Katie Couric, CBS News, Oct. 1, 2008
"All of 'em, any of 'em that have been in front of me over all these years." --Sarah Palin, unable to name a single newspaper or magazine she reads, interview with Katie Couric, CBS News, Oct. 1, 2008
"They are also building schools for the Afghan children so that there is hope and opportunity in our neighboring country of Afghanistan." --Sarah Palin, speaking at a fundraiser in San Francisco, Oct. 5, 2008
"They're in charge of the U.S. Senate so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better for Brandon and his family and his classroom." --Sarah Palin, getting the vice president's constitutional role wrong after being asked by a third grader what the vice president does, interview with NBC affiliate KUSA in Colorado, Oct. 21, 2008
"I told the Congress, 'Thanks, but no thanks,' on that Bridge to Nowhere." –Sarah Palin, who was for the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it
"I'm the mayor, I can do whatever I want until the courts tell me I can't.'" --Sarah Palin, as quoted by former City Council Member Nick Carney, after he raised objections about the $50,000 she spent renovating the mayor's office without approval of the city council
And you all thought that we are trouble with the Obama administation-it could have been worse!
he IS trying to manipulate the public. Huge social blunder when he took his family out to do what they wanted instead of attending a special affair pre-arranged by his host.
He won't manipulate us if we don't allow it.
But by the time anything can be done, it'll be too late. The damage will have been done. witness this legislation RAMMED thru..
They're not brain washed by the American media like the sheeple over here !
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They are more brain washed by the Russian, state controlled media!
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The media is global. Don't you get it? The elite are GLOBALISTS. They run all of the governments. New World Order. You can join the club but it takes a long time to get promoted, unless you perform well. The local branch is called Masons.
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