So you’d prefer that Obama lied outright and stuck to those lies? C’mon, Putin clearly knows how to manipulate popular opinion of his people, and the noises he was and will continue making is essentially anything to keep his folks from looking into the shoddy loans handed out to cronies in order to build the Sochi experience, among other things.
“Mr. Putin, would you do what America has done in the way of…”
“Oh, NO, we would never, ever do that because we’re great.”
