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http://www.businessinsider.com/putin-obama-drowning-question-2014-4Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin swims in a lake in southern Siberia's Tuva region August 3, 2009. Putin, a judo black belt who has flown in a fighter aircraft and shot a Siberian tiger in the wild, plunged into the depths of Lake Baikal aboard a mini-submersible on Saturday in a mission that added a new dimension to his macho image. Picture taken August 3, 2009. REUTERS/RIA Novosti/Pool/Alexei Druzhinin
Russian President Vladimir Putin believes his U.S. counterpart, President Barack Obama, would save him if he were drowning.
Putin received the strange question during an annual televised call-in with the nation on Thursday. To laughter, he responded that though he doesn't have much of a personal relationship with Obama, he believes Obama would save him.
"I don't want to be drowning!" Putin said, according to a translation by Russia Today. "... I don't think I have a close personal relationship with Obama. I think Obama is courageous and a good person, and for sure he would save me."
Tarheel_Dem
(31,244 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)Cha
(297,799 posts)Cirque du So-What
(25,999 posts)Wonder if Pootie-Poot believes the last pResident would have been willing to risk his worthless hide?
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)SunsetDreams
(8,571 posts)out from underneath that Greyhound you will soon find yourself under.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Hmmm...which person?
That's for sure.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)he wouldn't have saved Putin
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)Is that his way of messaging: "President Obama, give me a way out of this mess!"
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)I can tell you ... there is no such animal as a press reported joking throw-away line.
If it makes print/report, it is by design. And here, the message is clear (though it must be vetted by National security/Military/Diplomatic minds.
Hekate
(90,865 posts)I don't think I'll call that question in, though.
Strelnikov_
(7,772 posts)Now that would be really cool. Baikal is amazing.
It's good to be the Czar . . .
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,304 posts)As for him flying a fighter jet that's where G DUHbya got the idea for landing on the USS Abraham Lincoln.
Cheap_Trick
(3,918 posts)I wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire.
fried eggs
(910 posts)"I think Obama is courageous and a good person, and for sure he would save me."
AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)I think that was a message to President Obama, asking him to provide Putin with a path out of this mess. And listening to recent reports, I suspect we will soon see a de-escalation, shortly.
ETA: Note to those that think President Obama is weak and can be easily punked ... the leader of a revival nation with a bunch of nuclear rockets, disagrees.
Whisp
(24,096 posts)Nice, Vlad, nice! 6.0!