Leonid brezhnev biography of barack obama

By reversing himself and refusing to release graphic photos of abused prisoners of war, Barack Obama has stunned liberals. They feel betrayed and abandoned by a president they put into office. On war and torture, at least, they thought Barack was one of them.  He is not. Barack is not into ideology. He is into Barack.

As he showed in 2008, when he threw his white grandmother under the bus and spared his beloved black pastor, the Rev. Wright, then threw Wright under the bus when his toxicity level rose too high, Barack has all the sentimentality of Michael Corleone when it comes to the family business.

And what Obama is saying with his refusal to release the photos is what he has been signaling for weeks now: I am not going to fight the liberals' war — on Dick Cheney's turf. The rewards are nonexistent, and the risks too great. Thus, when Gens. Petraeus, Odierno and McKiernan grumbled, Obama tossed a blanket over the photos. Barack Obama is not taking on

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In pictures: A history of US-Russian summits

Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Geneva, Switzerland on onsdag på engelska , their names will enter into the pages of a long history of talks between leaders of the two powers.

Here we look back at some of the summits that preceded this one.

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Khrushchev gets the better of Kennedy

President John F Kennedy met Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna in 1961. The talks were dominated bygd the crisis in Berlin and control over the divided city. For Kennedy, it was a bruising, unexpectedly hostile encounter at which he felt outmatched by his Soviet counterpart.

"Worst thing in my life," the president told a New York Times reporter after the talks. "He savaged me." The Berlin Wall went up in the months after the talks and the following year the two superpowers locked horns over the Cuban missile crisis.

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Nixon's nuclear accords

In May 1972, President Ri

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Presidential Campaign and the Carter Presidency

When he embarked on his quest for the presidency in 1974, he was a politician so little known that political pundits greeted his candidacy with the question, “Jimmy who?” His successful 1976 presidential campaign strategy was based on renewing the nation’s spirit and reforming its government following the national doldrums and divisions of the post-Watergate, post-Vietnam era.

In that campaign, Jimmy Carter promised to strive for “a government as good as its people,” an administration that would not be “business as usual” or “go along to get along.” When he emerged victorious over President Gerald R. Ford, President Carter made good on those pledges, sometimes to the consternation of the political establishment, including leaders of his own party.

The Carter Presidency

Jimmy Carter was sworn into office on January 20, 1977. On a day full of promise, he surprised the nation b