President Obama Offers the Russians Rahm to Help Lobby the Duma on Nuke Treaty

[kpete]

Source: ABC

President Obama Offers the Russians Rahm to Help Lobby the Duma on Nuke Treaty

March 26, 2010 12:47 PM

Discussing the need for both the US Senate and the Russian Duma to ratify the nuclear disarmament treaty Presidents Obama and Medvedev agree to earlier today, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that the US has offered the Russians some special help.

“Just as we have to go to our Congress, President Medvedev has to go to the Duma,” Clinton said. “And I think President Obama has said that he would, you know, send Rahm Emanuel to Moscow.”

With reporters laughing at Clinton’s joke about sending the famously acid-tongued White House chief of staff to Moscow, Clinton added, “and we all immediately endorsed that offer. If President Medvedev wants to take us up on it, we're ready.”

Read more: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/03/president-obama-offers-the-russians-rahm-to-help-lobby-the-duma-on-nuke-treaty.html

[golddigger]

1. Maybe there is an opening

in Siberia.

[Mithreal]

8. +1

[mikelgb]

2. one way trip to moscow?

:evilgrin:

[bigworld]

3. Get ready, Russia:

дерьмо, моча, ебать, пизда, хуесос, ублюдок, и синицы

[boppers]

5. Er, that doesn't make any sense.

You've just strung together a bunch of semi-offensive slang terms.

[russian33]

10. um, not semi...

some of those words are pretty hard core curses

[theoldman]

4. At least he speaks in a language the Russians would understand.

[Ikonoklast]

6. Is Rahm the 'Nuclear Option'?

Da.

[aquart]

7. Thank God it was a joke.

[rox63]

9. Can Rahm cuss in Russian too? n/t

[joanski0]

11. Sure. All you have to say is "shitsky". n/t

[davidswanson]

12. don't say i never agreed with obama

ship him off