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spanone

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Wed Sep 30, 2015, 12:22 AM Sep 2015

cnn or faux...?....Vladimir Putin steals Barack Obama's thunder on the world stage

(CNN)Vladimir Putin is back -- and stealing Barack Obama's thunder.

The Russian president showed up at the United Nations on Monday for the first time in a decade, proposing a coup against U.S. global leadership and seeking to wrest control of a coalition battling ISIS away from America's grip.

And he wasn't the only leader of a country challenging the United States to effectively upstage Obama at the annual global meeting, which a U.S. president traditionally uses to command the spotlight.

Speeches by Chinese President Xi Jinping and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on the 70th anniversary of the creation of the world body also left Obama defending not only his personal foreign policy legacy, which is already under assault at home from Republican presidential candidates, but the entire concept of a world order based on seven decades of U.S. global leadership.


http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/28/politics/obama-putin-un-syria-isis/index.html

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cnn or faux...?....Vladimir Putin steals Barack Obama's thunder on the world stage (Original Post) spanone Sep 2015 OP
Bullshit sensationalism. The U.S. President is still the one with biggest audience. cheapdate Sep 2015 #1
I nailed it. herding cats Sep 2015 #2

cheapdate

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1. Bullshit sensationalism. The U.S. President is still the one with biggest audience.
Wed Sep 30, 2015, 12:44 AM
Sep 2015

Not saying that out of some ridiculous nationalistic "patriotism" -- it's just a fact.

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