Russia's Dmitry Medvedev hails Barack Obama as his "new comrade" - cue Freeper meltdown!

[Jackeens]

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Russia's Dmitry Medvedev hailed Barack Obama as "my new comrade" Thursday after their first face-to-face talks, saying the US president "can listen" -- even if little progress was made on substance.

The Russian president contrasted Obama as "totally different" to his predecessor George W. Bush, whom he blamed for the "mistake" of US missile shield plans fiercely opposed by Moscow.

Obama agreed to visit Moscow in July after his talks with Medvedev on Wednesday on the sidelines of a G20 summit in London aimed at fixing the battered world economy.

"I believe that we managed to establish contact.......It is easy to talk to him. He can listen. The start of this relationship is good," he said, adding: "Today it's a totally different situation (compared to Bush)... This suits me quite well."

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20090403/twl-russia-us-g20-diplomacy-missile-7e07afd.html

[vaberella]

1. Completely unrelated but I found Medvedev uber handsome.

On related news: Hah!! The freepers have a meltdown every second of the day. I think when they wake up to the fact that O is our Pres they have a meltdown. "A Black man, Oh Noes!!I swore it was a nightmare. The Birth of a Nation has come to life...our White Women are no longer safe...Oh Noes!!!"
Us: "His mum was White..."
Them: "Oh NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOES!!!"
:rofl:

[grannie4peace]

3. me too, & you can see his excitement with obama !

[vaberella]

4. Agreed.

I thought they seemed very companionable on stage. It was enlightening to see because Bush either didn't know what was going on or he was condescending or he was just lost all around. O and Medvedev seemed to be very responsive to each other and I hope to hear good stuff coming out of both of them in future.

[Jennicut]

5. Yeah, I thought he was cute too.

And he really seemed to like our Prez. Lets hope relations with Russia get better after this.

[zeemike]

2. To them this is proof positive

That Obama is a Marxist...if a Ruski calls him a comrade.
Most of them have pathetically little minds, and the ones that don't use that fact to gin up outrage.

[Igel]

6. It's the kind of thing I'm of two minds about.

On the one hand, you want there to be good, collegial relations between leaders. Then they can work well to accomplish joint goals.

At the same time I know that negotiators and potential rivals are your friends when you do what they want, and not your friends when you don't do what they want. As long as want you both want are the same things, fine, no problem. However, I know that many things that Medvedev wants are things that I don't want.

[LynnTheDem]

7. What's SAFER; a world who loves us, or a world who hates us?

Take your time, freeps. We know it's difficult for you to think.

[firedupdem]

8. Right. They are so stupid. Shrub really pumped them up with that

fake cowboy, we do what the hell we want to, attitude.