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Purveyor

(29,876 posts)
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 12:17 AM Jun 2012

Obama, Putin Give Off Chilly Body Language In The Heat Of Mexico’s Coast

Source: Associated Press

LOS CABOS, Mexico — It’s hard to tell if President Barack Obama got a sense of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s soul. In front of reporters, they hardly looked at each other.

In their first meeting since 2009, Obama and Putin shared little eye contact and did not appear to express much personal warmth following a two-hour meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit. Putin made brief remarks and then looked down at the table as Obama spoke to reporters, aided by a translator.

The gathering had a much different feel compared with President George W. Bush’s first meeting with Putin in Slovenia in June 2001. Bush said then that he was “able to get a sense of his soul.”

Yet aides said the media shouldn’t draw any conclusions from the chilly body language. They said the meeting wouldn’t have lasted as long as it did if the two leaders didn’t get along.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/obama-putin-give-off-chilly-body-language-in-the-heat-of-mexicos-coast/2012/06/18/gJQAoiWQmV_story.html

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Obama, Putin Give Off Chilly Body Language In The Heat Of Mexico’s Coast (Original Post) Purveyor Jun 2012 OP
Yup. They looked real chilly... Drunken Irishman Jun 2012 #1
I'm so sick and tired of the Cons in the media. They are working HARD BlueCaliDem Jun 2012 #2
the whore media wants him to say something like "i looked into his eyes and saw his soul" JI7 Jun 2012 #3
Yup... Drunken Irishman Jun 2012 #4
I thought the neonazicons would rejoice over giving the Russkies the cold shoulder. The Stranger Jun 2012 #11
Thanks for that Cali_Democrat Jun 2012 #6
Yep bluestateguy Jun 2012 #15
Those are photoshops. Putin is smiling in the second pic. Ash_F Jun 2012 #16
Well as Rmoney said Politicalboi Jun 2012 #5
These pseudo-"journalists" BumRushDaShow Jun 2012 #7
Practicing psychology without a license pscot Jun 2012 #10
Sure, like either man can't fool people with their so-called 'body language' lunatica Jun 2012 #8
Smile and wave boys may3rd Jun 2012 #9
Was Putin rearing his Commie cabeza in Mexico's airspace? Blue Owl Jun 2012 #12
what a puff piece, does not even allude to US-Russian issues of disagreement wordpix Jun 2012 #13
I don't know if I'd want to see Putin looking happy 4th law of robotics Jun 2012 #14
Letterman did a funny take on their meeting on his show last night. toopers Jun 2012 #17
 

Drunken Irishman

(34,857 posts)
1. Yup. They looked real chilly...
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 12:21 AM
Jun 2012




The media will do everything it can to create a story where there is none.

BlueCaliDem

(15,438 posts)
2. I'm so sick and tired of the Cons in the media. They are working HARD
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 12:36 AM
Jun 2012

to make President Obama look as weak as they can, twisting and spinning bull to R'money's advantage. Because make no mistake, this hit piece was written toward that end.

JI7

(89,249 posts)
3. the whore media wants him to say something like "i looked into his eyes and saw his soul"
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 01:17 AM
Jun 2012

or call him "Pootie Poot" to show they get along.

 

Drunken Irishman

(34,857 posts)
4. Yup...
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 01:19 AM
Jun 2012

You know the media is reaching when they resort to 'body language' to get an idea of how two men look at each other. What a ridiculous statement.

bluestateguy

(44,173 posts)
15. Yep
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 08:26 PM
Jun 2012

Don't forget the summer of 2008 and the media manufactured supposed "tension" between Hillary and Obama; they wouldn't shut up about it until the last fucking day of the Denver convention.

Ash_F

(5,861 posts)
16. Those are photoshops. Putin is smiling in the second pic.
Wed Jun 20, 2012, 08:32 AM
Jun 2012

Impossible. Unless someone off camera maybe tripped over and hurt themselves right at that moment.

 

Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)
5. Well as Rmoney said
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 01:54 AM
Jun 2012

USSR is our enemy. Not the exact words of course, but the same meaning. I don't know what I said, but I stand by it, whatever it was.

BumRushDaShow

(129,007 posts)
7. These pseudo-"journalists"
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 05:45 AM
Jun 2012

continue on their march towards total generation of fake news rather than observe and report on events. The Koch money must be flowing rather freely across the entire U.S. media empire.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
8. Sure, like either man can't fool people with their so-called 'body language'
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 06:58 AM
Jun 2012

in public. Especially when body language is just as much about politics as any other political moment.

Remember the Correspondents Dinner when Obama had us all in stitches while simultaneously giving orders to carry out Osama Bin Laden's assassination? And Putin? A former KGB man who lies to the public routinely while exposing his manly chest in photo ops.

The photos show two men who are being cordial and respectful.

 

may3rd

(593 posts)
9. Smile and wave boys
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 07:09 AM
Jun 2012

Smile and wave



Russia is preparing to send two warships to the Syrian port of Tartus, where Moscow operates a strategic naval base, ....

http://news.yahoo.com/russia-sending-two-warships-syrian-coast-report-085612198.html


Trust but verify it will remain business as usual

Blue Owl

(50,374 posts)
12. Was Putin rearing his Commie cabeza in Mexico's airspace?
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 11:53 AM
Jun 2012

Thank God is wasn't Sarah Palin or John McCain he was meeting with.

 

4th law of robotics

(6,801 posts)
14. I don't know if I'd want to see Putin looking happy
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 03:22 PM
Jun 2012

It'd be like a wolf smiling at you. Probably doesn't mean anything good for you.

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