You insufferable fool, Obama is introducing HIS people. As someone noted earlier, do you think Medvedev is shaking hands with his own people? They are Obama's people. Do you think Obama's people are snubbing him? I'd check the ventilation if I were you.
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Except that Obama didn't shake or offer to shake anybody's hand on this occasion. Look at the chandeliers in the video and picture. The bespectacled gentleman appears in both. Obama is visiting with his delegation not the other way around. The only explanation is that there was a Russian delegation alongside and lo and behold, as I said earlier, Medvedev shakes the hands of his own people while introducing them to Obama. There are so many other minutiae like the lapel flag pins which are seen in the video and yahoo piece. Enough said.
One of the better scenes in cinema ... Patton, and his group, refuses to eat the Soviets' spread. Translator: The general would like to know if you will drink a toast with him. Patton: Thank the general and tell him I have no desire to drink with him or any other Russian son of a bitch. Translator: [Nervous] I can't tell him that! Patton: Tell him, every word. Translator: [In Russian] He says he will not drink with you or any Russian son of a bitch. Russian general: [In Russian] Tell him he is a son of a bitch, too. Now! Translator: [Very nervous] He says he thinks you are a son of a bitch, too. Patton: [laughing] All right. All right, tell him I'll drink to that; one son of a bitch to another.
My point is that it really doesn't matter what happened. What is important is that the right wingers would be attacking the Russians if they thought the Russians had snubbed Reagan or Bush, but are found attacking Obama and not the Russians. The right wing hates America, looking for any and every chance to hope that America fails...