Here’s Why Russia Can’t Wait To See Obama Leave Office

On January 20, 2017, the Obama presidency
will be over and top Russian officials can't
wait.
"God created the world in seven days," Russian
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria
Zakharova said this week on her Facebook
page. "The Obama administration has (seven
plus) two more days to destroy it."
Aleksey Pushkov, a member of the Russian
Parliament and acerbic Tweeter, heaped scorn
on Obama and his policies.
"The democratic process in the USA was
undermined not by Russia but by the Obama
administration and the media who supported
(Hillary) Clinton against Trump," he wrote
recently. "The threat to democracy is inside
the USA itself."
Others aren't as measured. Vladimir
Zhirinovsky, politician and perpetual gadfly
never at a loss for inflammatory comments,
told Russian news agencies in December:
"Obama should get a D for flunking because of
his performance as a head of such a huge
state as America."
Some of these venom might be a reaction to
Obama's own dissing of Vladimir Putin, in
2013 when he described the Russian President
as having "that kind of slouch," looking like the
"bored kid in the back of the classroom."

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