anyone watching the TELSTAR 18 Vantage launch?
came across this little 2012 obama gem again.
makes more sense now than it did back then…
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But in an unscripted moment picked up by camera crews, the American president was more blunt: Let me get reelected first, he said; then I’ll have a better chance of making something happen.
“On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved, *but it’s important for him to give me space*,” Obama can be heard telling Medvedev, apparently referring to incoming Russian president — and outgoing prime minister — VladiÂmir Putin.
“Yeah, I understand,” Medvedev replies, according to an account relayed by an ABC News producer, who said she viewed a recording of the discussion made by a Russian camera crew. *“I understand your message about space. Space for you . . .”
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-tells-medvedev-solution-on-missile-defense-is-unlikely-before-elections/2012/03/26/gIQASoblbS_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.6853f296ec98