After weeks of schoolyard taunting by China and Russia, President Obama flexed his muscles and refused to sit at the lunchroom table with Vladimir Putin.
Yee-ouch! That’ll teach ’em a lesson!
This isn’t the first time Putin has orchestrated a humiliatingly awkward moment for an American president. Remember the Russian invasion of Georgia in 2008, with Putin sitting next to George Bush on stage, elbowing him and making jokes while Bush looked like a helpless douchebag? Probably not, but that’s what happened.
In the zero-sum game of international power politics, anything that makes the US or its president look weak makes China and Russia look stronger, hence the high-stakes game of keep-away played with Edward Snowden substituting for Barack Obama’s science homework, complete with the ruffians’ minions standing in the shadows waving and shouting, “Ooh, ooh, throw him to me! I wanna play!”
So, like it’s not bad enough that Putin makes Obama look like the class wimp, now the chickenhawks in Congress are prodding him to cancel America’s participation in the 2014 Winter Olympics, ostensibly because of Russia’s criminalization of homosexuality, among other issues.
What a stupid idea! I say, let the gays begin!
Imagine the possibilities:
- American medalists on the winners’ stand waving rainbow flags
- Women figure skaters performing to the music of Pussy Riot
- Bare-chested male figure skaters doing a medley of Vladimir Putin’s macho photo ops, choreographed to the Village People’s greatest hits
If Putin wants to play the part of a Bond movie arch-villain, he deserves some good ol’ American in-your-face ridicule!
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