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Obama ain’t no rock star
Published: 14 July, 2009, 08:54
Russia-US relations may or may not be on the mend - or "reset" - after Barack Obama's visit. Even I'll admit (and I'm hard to please) there's some genuine goodwill on both sides to repair a relationship that has been out of whack since the end of the Cold War. However, the same goodwill remains a rarity to many in the Western media. For them, the Russian people weren't grateful enough...
Comments (7):
Aleks mici,
July 14, 2009, 07:11
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Peter Lavelle ,
Really I like you !
Greattings
Alex.
Putin is not idolized in the Russian media!
I couldn't agree more with you Peter, and unfortunately for Obama, the higher the pedestal, the harder the fall. The attention and praise he's getting seems almost staged, especially when you consider that he has done absolutely nothing.
The Egyptians, Czechs, and many other people around the globe, have unreliable leaders so they look to Obama for prosperity and social justice. Compare that to Russia, I’m not sure how any current leader could out-do Putin
Thanks! Always a pleasure to read you. Luca
I don't think Obama has any rock star qualities. Only the real stage rock action can make a rockstar. And you cannot expect any action at all from the person whom Peter rightly titled the "commander-in-speech". Just too many Americans were subconsciously taught by movies to expect an American hero to appear and set the things right at the time of difficulty. Now, when is the time for people to act and unite (which requires only to switch off TV and get to know your family members), they waited for the initial 100 days to see, after which they find out they see nothing, so they wait more, and wait, and wait, and wait... And while they are waiting, the big things are going on outside the media spotlight.
Putin and Medvedev are the GREATEST!
As an internationalist I have watched Obama's rhetoric on Russia closely. he is no rock star, indeed. It was only last autumn he thought Mr. Putin was President!... and he still persists in the irritating "lecturing at" rather than "lecturing to" approach when addressing Russians. He also did not accept that Georgia attacked S. Ossetia and provoked a conflict. In any event as a Canadian I have lived in Russia and seen at first hand how foreign media lies and distorts Russian events. Enough was enough and in 2007 I decided to begin acting and do something. to help address the awful malicious one-sided diatribe from Western media.
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