One of the problems Barry and Mrs. Bill Clinton were going to take care of right away was the horrible relationship with our "friends" the Russians. Apparently GW Bush didn't genuflect to them as much as his predecessor Mr. Bill Clinton did and that was the problem. So Mrs. Bill Clinton marched over to Russia with a red button, all ready to massively genuflect and press the "reset" button. How's that working out, Barry? Not too well apparently:
Relations between Washington and the Kremlin have turned toxic on the eve of President Obama's visit to the Group of 20 summit in St Petersburg.
Russian President Vladimir Putin called Secretary of State John Kerry a liar — and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel charged that Russia had supplied Syrian strongman Bashar Assad with the chemical weapons that were used to kill more than 1,000 people last month.
Meanwhile, Putin has denounced a potential U.S. attack on Syria as a violation of international law, and House Speaker John Boehner declined on Wednesday to meet with Russian diplomats who had hoped to directly lobby Congress to undercut President Barack Obama's resolution on limited military strikes on Syria.
And, for his part, President Obama told reporters in Stockholm that the two countries’ relations have “hit a wall.” He is due in St. Petersburg, Putin's hometown, on Thursday.
The two heads of state have spent recent months sniping at each other, with the U.S. president comparing Putin to a bored schoolboy and the Russian leader forcing an irritated Obama to wait a half-hour for a meeting on the sidelines at last year's G-20 summit meeting in Mexico.
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