Washington showed up, laid its cards on the table, and treated Russia very seriously. Now the ball is in Kremlin's court to do the same.
Unlike most of the rest of Europe, Russia is hardly in the grips of Obamamania. He's certainly more popular than George W. Bush or John McCain, but that's damning with faint praise.
We can't help but weigh in on the Sarah Palin epic disaster movie. It's a fantastic train wreck of a story, and we can't look away.
This week, we had the opportunity to contrast Bush and Obama in terms of a first encounter with Putin.
Earlier today, President Obama delivered a speech to Moscow's New Economic School, in which he outlined his vision for the future U.S.-Russia relationship.
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The Apollo Theater's memorial tribute to Michael Jackson might as well have been Mardi Gras in Harlem.
This is the first serious encounter of two young presidents who both represent a new generation of politicians. But repairing this relationship will take time, and there are deep, historical obstacles to success.
A first encounter during a Lunar Eclipse is always highly emotionally charged. Attractions between the people involved are volcanic and intense.
If Obama and Medvedev strike up a personal and political rapport, it could unfreeze a relationship that became icy in the final years of the Bush and Putin administrations.
As President Obama heads to Russia, stove-piping is blocking what could be a major multifaceted deal. The main negotiations in preparation for the president's visit are taking place in tightly controlled compartments.
She is not a narcissist. She just has the good sense to realize she is better and more deserving than most people to rule the planet and prepare humanity for the end of days.
The Putin-Medvedev "tandem" might not be an awkward political marriage of two paradigms but a clever good cop/bad cop arrangement.
North Korea was to have been the drama of the day. But it turned into a major fizzle.
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Urging Obama to stand up for human rights is all well and good. But what, exactly, would he accomplish by upbraiding Vladimir Putin for his lapses?
With an agenda that asks the ruling military junta to open its doors to national "reconciliation", Ban Ki-moon is convinced he can persuade the country's leaders that reforms are for their own good.
Next week Obama meets with President Medvedev in Moscow. It would be a mistake to let human rights concerns go unaddressed, since the incidence of racist attacks there has grown by 15 percent.
It is too early too know whether Obama's promise at the Stonewall celebration is to be taken seriously or if it was his attempt to extricate himself from a potentially difficult situation by making more promises.
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The President and his family have a right to dress nice and look nice. They don't have to prove they have style and class. "It's Obvious"
As for the President flying around the world, if that's what the job calls for, that's what you do.
It's summer time, So!, damn skippy-take the kids.
Let the kids run, jump, skip and have fun, while their parents meet with other heads to try and figure out a MASTER PLAN to get America and the rest of the world out of this 'cesspool of BS' we are floating in. No one is exempt from the TOUGH TIMES we're in, not even the President. I hate to think what he has to endure trying to run a country as the FIRST Black President, A NATION who's history is steeped in two hundred plus years of racism, prejudice, injustice and GREED, that led to the sins of slavery.
Thank God, we have a brilliant President, capable and intelligent enough to meet with other leaders to figure out how to fix what 'We the People' have broken on this planet.
We should be grateful God hasn't decided to do a 'forty days and forty nights rain of fire' as HE DID with water in the days of Noah. Perhaps, IF, we took a real look in the mirror, WE CAN MAKE A CHANGE. We can stop the fire of lies, ignorance, deceit and greed that is blazing throughout the world.
you voted for obama didn't you?
Mid-flight change, eh? That would be a bit premature, don't you think? That would mean the Obamas hit their wardrobes 6 hours into the 12 hour flight from Andrews Air Force Base to Moscow. They'd be wrinkled by the time they deplaned. Also, WHY are you shouting MOSCOW MAKEOVER?
You mean you DON'T change clothes before disembarking after a flight of several hours ? Didn't you ever hear of OTHER PEOPLE'S comfort ? Not stinking and having clean, presentable clothes when you get off the plane is EXPECTED of all of us when we work.
Ridiculous! Where would you be changing your clothes? Certainly not on a commercial flight, and I wouldn't want to see you doing it anyway...spare us!
The nation is about to tank and the media is gushing about the first family changing closes. What a bunch of morons.
Now that is a news story! There is a CLOSET in Air Force One!
Being the First Family sure has its perks.
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