"We've got a whole lot of business that we do with China and Russia. I'm not going to have one case of a suspect who we're trying to extradite suddenly being elevated to the point where I've got to start doing wheeling and dealing and trading on a whole host of other issues, simply to get a guy extradited."
President Obama does not shape world events well. He reacts. The prettified label that often attached to his presidency is "pragmatism." This is not pragmatism. A pragmatist would not have let his administration suffer the embarrassment it has over the Snowden business. The president's statements at the beginning of the Snowden business and now conflict with the actions and raging of his subordinates in between. Larry Summers said "I don't think anybody has a sense of Obama's deep feelings about things." I don't think Obama has deep feelings about the Snowden business. He has just reacted.
President Obama does not shape world events well. He reacts. The prettified label that often attached to his presidency is "pragmatism." This is not pragmatism. A pragmatist would not have let his administration suffer the embarrassment it has over the Snowden business. The president's statements at the beginning of the Snowden business and now conflict with the actions and raging of his subordinates in between. Larry Summers said "I don't think anybody has a sense of Obama's deep feelings about things." I don't think Obama has deep feelings about the Snowden business. He has just reacted.
