Is there any truth to the Repug. meme that Obama congratulated Putin as well?

[skip fox]

I heard that this was a rumor floating around the Republican sites.

Has any tape or news item turned up?

[mucifer]

1. They said it on morning joe. They also said we hadn't just been cyber attacked so it's

not the same.

[HipChick]

3. It's not the same...only done after a few weeks

but still gave Putin crap..

Not like Trump who did it immediately and never mentioned the nerve agent...so Putin is free to kill in US now, as there are no repercussions

[blake2012]

2. Of course not in the same way

He highlighted the progress under Medvedev, and highlighted their differences such as on Syria.

Secretary of State Clinton under Obamas leadership Called into question Putin’s previous election as valid and above board.

It is one of the many reasons Putin backed Trump and used Russian state apparatus to get him elected.

[uponit7771]

4. false equivalency, Putin didn't chemically attack citizens of our allies or stoke US election

[rainin]

5. I heard it mentioned today that at that time the biggest scandal with Russia

was that Putin had said disparaging words against our SOS Clinton. Today, the US and the UK are under attack. No one has said the intelligence agencies urged Obama not to congratulate him.

[wishstar]

6. Josh Ernst and David Axelrod said Obama's congratulation was 6 years ago -much different context

At that time 6 years ago we hadn't been attacked and confronted by all the Russian hacking and election interference and indictments and the poisonings etc.

[Hav]

7. "What about" fails again

I don't think Obama was warned by his national security advisers to congratulate Putin and then went against their advice.

[Stallion]

8. It Makes about as much Sense as Democrats are the Party of Slavery

small, uneducated minds trying to think