No Sweat

Posted on 11/08/2008 at 9:19 pm by Bob Cesca

(CHICAGO) President-elect Obama spoke to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Saturday as the future American leader had another round of phone calls with leaders in other nations.

For the first time in eight years, a news item like this didn’t make me nervous or embarrassed — nervous, as in worrying that our president asked the Russian president to pull his finger or some such hijinkery; embarrassed, as in worrying that our president asked the Russian president to pull his finger or some such hijinkery.

Something tells me our president-elect didn’t give Medvedev a wacky frat nickname, either.

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  • http://obamaproject.windonwater.net QueenTiye

    Feels good, doesn’t it? :) QT

  • http://www.broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    What, no Meddy-Med?

  • KatinWilm

    I was thinking Ve-Ve, Carl, but Meddy-Med works too. :) It is really an amazing feeling to have confidence that our president isn’t going to embarrass the shit out of us in every phone call.

  • Sharktattoo

    Seriously – it’s un-freakin-believable, ain’t it?

  • josh dobbin

    Bush’s nickname style was never so clever. It was actually banal and insipid, with the strange bullying passive-aggressive move of expecting everyone else to NOT call it out for being banal and insipid.He called anyone vaguely tall “Stretch.”He called Tony Blair “Landslide.”"You won a landslide. Know-whut? Imgunna call you “Landslide.” Heh.”The closest spiritual match to Bush’s brand of assholery on this front is the character of Andy on the American OFFICE, calling Jim “Tuna.”Calling Putin “Pootie-poot” is an indication on Bush’s laziness in that instance, in that he clearly knew nothing about him past his name. If he had known Putin knew karate, he’d call him “Karate.” Maybe “Karate-chop.”

  • http://www.osborneink.com Matt Osborne

    And I’ll bet Obama won’t tell us he’s seen Medvedev’s soul, either.

  • El Mystico

    @ Matt Osborne- He can’t see Medvedev’s soul because Putin keeps it in a jar on his bookshelf. Right next to that shrunken head full of scotch.(And a cookie to whoever gets that reference…)

  • bajasteve

    Uhh…could it be Yeltsin?