President Barack Obama told Russia’s leader Monday that he would have more flexibility after the November election to deal with the contentious issue of missile defense, a candid assessment of political reality that was picked up by a microphone without either leader apparently knowing.
Outgoing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said he would pass on Obama’s message to his successor, Vladimir Putin, according to an audio recording of comments the two leaders made during a meeting in Seoul, South Korea. Obama and Medvedev did not intend for their comments to be made public.
Once they were, the White House said Obama’s words reflected the reality that domestic political concerns in the both the U.S. and Russia this year would make it difficult to fully address their long-standing differences over the contentious issue of missile defense.
Obama, should he win re-election, would not have to face voters again.
“Since 2012 is an election year in both countries, with an election and leadership transition in Russia and an election in the United States, it is clearly not a year in which we are going to achieve a breakthrough,” White House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said.
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If my vote means a damn thing, thet flop-eared Communist will have all the flexability that any “citizen” in this country gets!
Not only are his words extremely disturbing, but wait for it…as with anyone discussing criminal activity in public, at the end of the conversation they reflexively look around to see who’s watching. Then Barry looks uncomfortable, with his fingers to his lips. He’s going to sell us out and he knows it’s wrong. I wonder how long it was before he looked around again.
At least ABC aired it. This creep needs an open mic on him all the time.
Don’t kid yourselves here, Barry is well aware what can and cannot be “overheard”. ABC would be the last to televise anything detrimental to their master. NOTHING in politics is coincidence.
MORE FLEXIBILITY MY @$$,!!!!! THIS ROTTEN FILTHY SOB, HAS GOT TO GO!!!!! WE WILL GIVE HIM FLEXIBILITY ALRIGHT, ABOUT 500 MILLION SIZE 12′S UP HIS @$$ AND OUT OF OUR WHITE HOUSE!!!
My feel about the President’s open mike was not intenstional like I have seen many say, but of course like the rest of us in America, my opinion don’t mean nothing, but heck i’m going to express myself just because I can for now, so here I go. Our president’s mommie, daddie, grandma, & grandpappi were known communist sympathizers, also the friend’s they had also had some communist attachment to them and the party. Now that we can connect the president to some kind of relationship with the communist party, also with the president being able to go to all the countries he wants, along with access to telephones that can have private calls that are never recorded. With all of us knowing all this about the president I have no doubt that he has communistic tendencies that even show thru all the policies that he has already brought forth to fruitation. Knowing this, why wouldn’t our President pick up the telephone at anytime, anywhere and talk about his real political views. If that has happened, and he has been explaining his real political views to medevdev for the last three years, my opinion is, after he is re-elected, he would have all the flexability to finish his goal of taking America down that road towards communism, and with the last four years he will be able to put the last of the nails into the coffin of communism, and there will be nothing we will be able to do about it. He has already signed all the executive notices he needs to take full control of everything we the people need to run America, now he has control of all of us. This Is A True Story, just wait and see.