Medvedev liking/admiring Obama will prove to neocons and teabaggers, that Obama is bad.

of course a Communist Russian would appreciate a Bolshevik Marxist like Obama...

Sure, I bet its a pleasure, Russki. It's always nice when one commie gets to deal with another. Obama probably gave you all our nukes for a case of vodka!

Translation: Bushkie vas dumshitskie.

Yes, it's obvious that Obama is reasonable, personable, well-educated and intelligent. People may not agree with all his policies or decisions, but they should recognize that.

And, what a relief from the (inter)national embarassment and war criminal we had for the last 8 years!

Yeah, respect is OK, so far as it goes. But can Obama peer into into the soul of foreign leaders?

MEDVEDEV: Obviously I do have someone on my mind. That rightwing, shit-for-brains fool your corrupt Supreme Court gave your presidency to, though I don't want to offend anyone."

Fixed it for ya, Dmitry!

"Translation: Bushkie vas dumshitskie."
Posted by: cr

Salute!

Just more evidence that Obama is a dangerous elitist who's far removed from the common man. I would hate to have a beer with him because I'd leave without that feeling I used to treasure in past years that I was smarter than the POTUS.

Yeah, I kinda got tired of the bushit myself.

Respect from foreign leaders is just another sign of weakness on the part of Obama.

Everyone knows that what really counts is fear! When all of the world fears our leader, you know you are on the right path.

Liberals are celebrating because the Soviets are "comfortable" with BHO???

I have no love or respect for Bush, but Medvedev was being gracious and I wish Stephanopoulos had allowed his statement to stand as it was. I'm sure everyone got what Medvedev was saying; there was no need to beat the point into the ground, sort of akin to the way someone can ruin a joke by drawing further and sometimes undue attention to it. There's something to be said for subtlety and the implicit.

Dang, when so many parody trolls!

Poor AI.

Oh, Al. Silly, silly Al. Remember when Bush got lost in Vladimir Putin's eyes? And when he wet-kissed and held hands with Saudi princes? You never worried your pretty little head then, so no need to do it now.

I predict that the usual suspects will pounce on this line: "He's eager to listen to his partner".

Clearly more signs of a traitor in the White House.

aw, Medvedev, dude! I know you're the president of Russia and all, but we've got some blogs to read here, and we're going to have to live with the fallout from your statement. Cue the ragegasms from the right. Start up the wink-wink "who's the Russian's favorite president?" meme. Fucking Liz Cheney is going to pop up now like it's some demonic game of whack-a-mole. See what you started?

You tossed a can of lighter fluid on the fire, all because our right-wingers won't or can't see the plain truth in your statement, that our previous president was an incurious moron.

Thanks a lot ... I had forgotten Stephanopoulos even existed.

I'm sure Neville Chamberlain was also a very pleasant man with whom it's a pleasure to deal with.

All was lost when Bush declared that Putin was a good man. Who friggin' cares? The only worse Bush statement was his challenge to the Iraqi president to give up or go to war. He sealed our fate with that statement.

Obama is careful to not make categorical statements or conclusions which set policy in stone.

The difference is simple: Bush was a noun person...happy to define static stuff which might change as stuff which will never change. Obama is a verb person...able to describe past, present and future relationships as stuff which is open to change. Should we be bound by our past? How about the present? If we are not bound by past or present, how can our future be bound by our current thinking?

Obama seeks to free us of our past and present so we can freely choose our future.

He's obviously peered into Obama's soul. . .

Yes Al, I'm glad that the two folks on Earth that can annihilate human life by launching nukes are "comfortable" with one another.

(Stephanopoulos did not ask Medvedev to respond to any Sarah Palin quotes.)

That's probably because Stephie was told before the interview: "You mention that idiot who claims she can see us from her house, and we will shoot you for the mad dog that you are."

I'm sure Neville Chamberlain was also a very pleasant man with whom it's a pleasure to deal with.

What is this, some kind of reverse Godwin?

"I'm sure Neville Chamberlain was also a very pleasant man with whom it's a pleasure to deal with."

Yes, and by all accounts so was Ronald Reagan. According to all accounts, he and Gorbachev really liked and got along with one another.

[We will now watch conservative heads explode]

Yes, and by all accounts so was Ronald Reagan. -T-Rex

Maybe the historically accurate Reagan, but conservatives have their own Reagan, Jesus, and Wikipedia.

but, but, but...did obama look into Medvedev's soul? After all, we need to get to what is really important.

Democrats nominate highly educated people: Obama, Clinton, Carter to name a few, and not to mention HRC, Grayson, and others - all highly educated.

Republicans nominate barely intelligible ignoramuses: reagan, bush the lessor, mccain, palin, with other idiots like huckabee and palin part deux on-deck.

It is such a startling difference, and yet its the highly educated, competent people that get trashed and mocked for their intelligence in the corporate media. American politics and the corporate media that controls public discourse is soooooooo very effed-up.

Yet another item to add to my list of "stuff that used to be considered unremarkable that we're now thankful to have again."

The president of Ukraine made similar observations about Obama's strong presence, calm demeanor, and obvious intelliegence on NPR.

The jerk interviewer tried twice to get him to walk back or qualify his praise. In his third response Sakaschvili(spelling) was over the top in his admiration of President Obama.

The interviewer changed topics.

Chris Matthews just heaped scorn on both Palin and Bush for being incurious know-nothings. He dismissed Palins authority to critique foreign policy and essentially called Bush a disaster who "rose above his level of preparation." Ouch!

With any luck more people will notice that Palin is a dumbass who like Bush, can't even pronounce "nuclear."

No, Medvedev appreciates a sucker. I'd appreciate someone who gave me all of what I wanted, too. He's not respected. Nice suck-up, though.

Winkandanod, @20:11,

The Ukrainian guy is Yanukovich; Sakashvilli (spell?) is Georgian. I know, I know, they all look the same, but...

"Respect from foreign leaders is just another sign of weakness on the part of Obama."

Obviously the next US President, Palin, should strive to alienate all world leaders.

*facepalm*

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