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					Originally Posted by  sleepyjeff
					 
				 
				Reagan met with Gorbachev.....thus spelling the end to the Soviet empire(well, that worked out real well for Gorbachev    )
 
Bush met with Putin..........Allies, hello  
Bush met with the Japanese Prime Minister..........in 91' not 41'    
			
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So, Reagan shouldn't have met with Gorby, then?  (Going by your rather tortured logic a few posts back...)
Putin is as much an ally as the Saudis or their ilk.  
Japan was in the middle of taunting us for being lazy-assed, uncultured people who deserved the economic ass kicking they were dealing when George Sr. made his deposit on the PM. 
Face it- nothing Obama does will ever be right for you.  I understand; I feel much the same way about McCain and I certainly feel that way about Dubya.  Oh, and I wouldn't gloat too much about the Soviet Union.  We're headed down that same path.