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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Sun Feb 5, 2017, 07:18 PM Feb 2017

""The president likes to volley back and forth with people"



“We’ve got a lot of killers,” Trump said in response to Bill O’Reilly characterizing Putin as a “killer.” “What do you think? Our country’s so innocent?”

Reacting to Trump’s comments on Sunday, Christie asserted the president does indeed believe that America is morally superior to Russia, and argued Trump was simply being respectful to Russia’s leader.

“He respects Vladimir Putin because he believes that the leaders of countries deserve to get treated with respect,” Christie said on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” instantly raising questions as to why leaders of nations like Australia, Mexico or Germany did not similarly deserve the same level of respect from the president.

“The president likes to volley back and forth with people. And when he’s being challenged, he likes to challenge back,” Christie added. “But the fact of the matter is I know President Trump believes that America is morally superior to Russia. I know that he’ll stand up and be tough with Vladimir Putin. But I also know that he believes that a world where people are speaking with each other, dialoguing, cooperating is a potentially safer world than one when we’re constantly in conflict.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/chris-christie-trump-russia-putin_us_589763cee4b0c1284f2668ea?
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""The president likes to volley back and forth with people" (Original Post) Miles Archer Feb 2017 OP
Give up and go home, Chris. The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2017 #1
No American Republican has the right to lecture anyone on respecting national leaders Bucky Feb 2017 #2
Chrispie says "the Con believes that the leaders of countries deserve to get treated with respect" KewlKat Feb 2017 #3
Like the respect he showed PM Turnbull of Australia? Or the respect he tblue37 Feb 2017 #6
Christie is a big bully bullied by bigger bully Trump. Dark n Stormy Knight Feb 2017 #4
It would be a decent argument... lisa58 Feb 2017 #5
Did someone loan him a blue tie? lpbk2713 Feb 2017 #7
Ass kisser. How embarrassing. SammyWinstonJack Feb 2017 #8

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,576 posts)
1. Give up and go home, Chris.
Sun Feb 5, 2017, 07:20 PM
Feb 2017

Stop licking Trump's tiny balls; you're never going to get a job in his White House. And the way things are going, you're a damn fool to want one.

Bucky

(53,936 posts)
2. No American Republican has the right to lecture anyone on respecting national leaders
Sun Feb 5, 2017, 07:26 PM
Feb 2017

The way they showed total contempt and disrespect for Obama, the leader of their own country, for eight years destroyed their ability to utter those syllables with any dignity

KewlKat

(5,624 posts)
3. Chrispie says "the Con believes that the leaders of countries deserve to get treated with respect"
Sun Feb 5, 2017, 07:29 PM
Feb 2017

He should have clarified that statement as follows-

"the Con believes that the non-colored leaders of countries deserve to get treated with respect"

The MFer Con has NEVER treated our President Obama with respect and still doesn't.

tblue37

(65,215 posts)
6. Like the respect he showed PM Turnbull of Australia? Or the respect he
Sun Feb 5, 2017, 08:19 PM
Feb 2017

keeps showing Pres. Peña Nieto of Mexico?

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