President Obama’s answer to 60 Minutes’ Steve Kroft about the claim that Putin was challenging his leadership sent heads dropping to desks:
Kroft: He’s challenging your leadership, Mr. President. He’s challenging your leadership—
Obama: Well, Steve, I got to tell you, if you think that running your economy into the ground and having to send troops in in order to prop up your only ally is leadership, then we’ve got a different definition of leadership.
Leave it to Vox to give it a standing ovation:
Obama had a pretty sick burn mocking Putin's "leadership" http://t.co/Nf1V7R22x1 pic.twitter.com/mbWbpkWaNn
— Vox (@voxdotcom) October 12, 2015
Russian troops are in Ukraine and now Syria, but boy did the U.S. president just deliver a zinger!
Have the State Department mobilize the #SickBurn hashtag:
https://twitter.com/fxxfy/status/653611517783506944
https://twitter.com/PolitiBunny/status/653608140148113408
When you model your entire presidency on emulating "Mean Girls", I suppose this is pretty much all we can expect… https://t.co/IeFy2DUqgd
— justturnright (@justturnright) October 12, 2015
https://twitter.com/alleygirl2409/status/653603881923006464
https://twitter.com/MrDonCarpenter/status/653601319014367233
https://twitter.com/lyz_estrada/status/653605218014261248
@voxdotcom so that's where we're at – how well a Prez 'burns' other world leaders as opposed to the actually ability to lead. That's great.
— Fred Davis (@TheFreddyD) October 12, 2015
https://twitter.com/RobProvince/status/653603120715579392
Sick burns will win us the New Cold War. https://t.co/UrAxo87KAx
— The Nats Won The World Series (@EsotericCD) October 12, 2015
@voxdotcom <—consider themselves journalists. "Sick burn"…are you guys 12? Pathetic .
— Roger Dorn (@DFris1) October 12, 2015
https://twitter.com/moderncomments/status/653601766098006016
Putie can grab some aloe after he bombs the next ISIS target. https://t.co/K8ZUuFEllU
— Lizzy Lou Who ?? (@_wintergirl93) October 12, 2015
https://twitter.com/WildcatDM/status/653602860236701696
.@voxdotcom #sickburn pic.twitter.com/7uLIOKWZli
— Max Q ⚡ (@Randy_Shannon) October 12, 2015
He also had quite the sick burn while debating Russia with Romney.
And was, as usual, completely wrong.https://t.co/dTKZPyREjJ
— Ministry of Tooth (@OfTooth) October 12, 2015
The “sick burn” on this topic still belongs to Romney, though the White House will never admit that.
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