Vladimir Putin 'rejects Barack Obama offer to attend White House'

[Locutus]

Vladimir Putin earlier this month rejected an offer from Barack Obama for landmark bilateral talks at the White House, the Kremlin has claimed.



Less than a week before Mr Putin's May 7 presidential inauguration, he received a missive from Mr Obama touching upon bilateral and international issues and inviting him to discuss them in a bilateral summit on the sidelines of the May 18-19 G8 summit, Putin's foreign policy aide Yury Ushakov said.

"Obama sent his letter on May 2," Mr Ushakov told a briefing. "He even proposed holding a separate meeting at the White House in Washington outside of the framework of the G8."

But the Russian strongman told him he would not be able to travel to the United States and instead sent his protégé and Kremlin predecessor Dmitry Medvedev to the summit at Obama's Camp David residence in Maryland.

The Kremlin said Mr Putin could not go because he was too busy forming a government after his inauguration. Analysts say the Kremlin's explanation for the cancellation of the talks does not hold water.

After Mr Putin's refusal to go the United States, the White House said Mr Obama would not attend the APEC summit Russia hosts in Vladivostok in September, which comes soon after the Democratic presidential nomination convention.



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Vladimir Putin 'rejects Barack Obama offer to attend White House' - Telegraph

 

[lone wolf]

Sure.... Why not renew the Cold War over a snit?

 

[Just the Facts]

lol Obama is too far left even for old Soviets.

 

[damngrumpy]

America is screwed up because the right wing screwed it up. Now the Obama
administration is using left leaning solutions? Name one. That is the problem
the Obama administration is not left at all, and the trouble is it is also not right
wing. Tax cuts to stimulate jobs is nonsense, the only thing that gets stimulated
is the profit margin or the pension gain for the wealthiest Americans.
Trickle Down is what it was once called. Instead of people getting a piece of cake,
the middle class gets slightly bigger crumbs than those on the bottom rung.
Obama promised medicare and most people believed there would be some kind
of universality at least the middle and lower middle class, Obama gave them a
smaller bill and access to something many still can't afford.
If Barack Obama were in Canada he would still be right of the Federal Liberal Party.
To call him left wing is a misnomer.
And the other thing that puzzles me, how is it we are still using words like Russian
Strongman? Russia holds elections and people vote. The old Soviet Union has
gone, but hey, some people missed it.
And no, the Republicans are not at fault for all the mess they are in but they went a
long way to bring financial instability about. The millionaires and billionaires are
counting on Romney to get them back into the pockets of everyone else. American
families have been subsidizing the upper class for far too long.

 

[EagleSmack]

America is screwed up because the right wing screwed it up. Now the Obama
administration is using left leaning solutions? Name one. That is the problem
the Obama administration is not left at all, and the trouble is it is also not right
wing. Tax cuts to stimulate jobs is nonsense, the only thing that gets stimulated
is the profit margin or the pension gain for the wealthiest Americans.
Trickle Down is what it was once called. Instead of people getting a piece of cake,
the middle class gets slightly bigger crumbs than those on the bottom rung.
Obama promised medicare and most people believed there would be some kind
of universality at least the middle and lower middle class, Obama gave them a
smaller bill and access to something many still can't afford.
If Barack Obama were in Canada he would still be right of the Federal Liberal Party.
To call him left wing is a misnomer.
And the other thing that puzzles me, how is it we are still using words like Russian
Strongman? Russia holds elections and people vote. The old Soviet Union has
gone, but hey, some people missed it.
And no, the Republicans are not at fault for all the mess they are in but they went a
long way to bring financial instability about. The millionaires and billionaires are
counting on Romney to get them back into the pockets of everyone else. American
families have been subsidizing the upper class for far too long.

How do you do the rolling eyes emoticon again?

 

[Highball]

Barry is on a hunt for friends right now. The only two who will accept (Assad & Kim Jr.) aren't welcome. So... who next? Maybe Chavez or....?