# Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak Appeared As Obama White House Visitor At Least 22 Times **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 3, 2017, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-ambassador-sergey-kislyak-appeared-as-obama-white-house-visitor-at-least-22-times/781276 "2017-03-03T08:20:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![purplehearingaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@purplehearingaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehearingaid)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-ambassador-sergey-kislyak-appeared-as-obama-white-house-visitor-at-least-22-times/781276/41 "2017-03-03T20:16:17Z")
There wasn’t any sanctions against Russian when the Russian Ambassador was there ! ---
**Author:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-ambassador-sergey-kislyak-appeared-as-obama-white-house-visitor-at-least-22-times/781276/42 "2017-03-03T20:22:54Z")
> [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](#): > > I would bet $20 that this guy (arfur) is a paid member of the [troll army](http://www.businessinsider.com/russia-internet-trolls-and-donald-trump-2016-7). This is a warning for accusing another poster of trolling or being a troll. This is not permitted outside the Pit. [/moderating] ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-ambassador-sergey-kislyak-appeared-as-obama-white-house-visitor-at-least-22-times/781276/43 "2017-03-03T20:47:12Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > I have yet to find a single instance where arguing with someone who brought up Saul Alinsky was a productive thing to do. Seriously, hands up, any liberal who heard of Saul Alinsky before the right went crazy about him. Anyone? _Anyone_? He’s that guy on the _Breaking Bad_ spin-off show, right? Or was it a spin-off of _The Walking Dead_? ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-ambassador-sergey-kislyak-appeared-as-obama-white-house-visitor-at-least-22-times/781276/44 "2017-03-03T20:47:49Z")
That said, I’m moving this to the Pit. There’s no real attempt at discussion. It’s a rant and both sides can play there. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-ambassador-sergey-kislyak-appeared-as-obama-white-house-visitor-at-least-22-times/781276/45 "2017-03-03T21:00:58Z")
Good. Fuck the OP. He’s as stupid as **Clothahump** or a troll. Hopefully he’s banned and then gets hit by a car. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-ambassador-sergey-kislyak-appeared-as-obama-white-house-visitor-at-least-22-times/781276/46 "2017-03-03T21:02:09Z")
**Arfurvirus** , is that anything like Ebola? ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-ambassador-sergey-kislyak-appeared-as-obama-white-house-visitor-at-least-22-times/781276/47 "2017-03-03T21:13:50Z")
The President met with the Russian ambassador? God damn I’m glad I didn’t see this incredible stupidity before it was in the Pit. OP, How does someone so fucked in the head as you manage to get food in your own mouth to sustain yourself? Do you eat and crap right there in the same spot as wherever you last fell? Been here since 2003, so if you’re a paid Trump stooge, that is one long game. ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-ambassador-sergey-kislyak-appeared-as-obama-white-house-visitor-at-least-22-times/781276/48 "2017-03-03T21:14:13Z")
I think **arfurvirus** is when your dog has a stomach bug and when you try to leash it to take it to the vet it runs all over the house to get away from you while having constant explosive diarrhea. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-ambassador-sergey-kislyak-appeared-as-obama-white-house-visitor-at-least-22-times/781276/49 "2017-03-03T21:16:55Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > **Arfurvirus** , is that anything like Ebola? Ebola is much more preferable. With any luck, you die. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-ambassador-sergey-kislyak-appeared-as-obama-white-house-visitor-at-least-22-times/781276/50 "2017-03-03T21:20:54Z")
> [@arfurvirus](#): > > Meanwhile in the real world… > > … The majority of our well meaning Trump Derangement Syndrome having Leftists can’t > > come to grips that Hillary Clinton, (who hopefully goes to prison) sent 20% uranium capacity to Russia, as The Clinton Foundation received a magical $500,000 “donation” from Russia, at the same time. > > [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/yes-cash-flowed-to-clinton-foundation-amid-us-russian\_us\_58aa5dd6e4b0fa149f9ac82f](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/yes-cash-flowed-to-clinton-foundation-amid-us-russian_us_58aa5dd6e4b0fa149f9ac82f) > \*\*LOL \*\* > **[No, Hillary Clinton did not "give Russia 20 percent of the uranium” in the US](https://www.vox.com/world/2017/2/17/14649980/trump-clinton-russia-uranium)** > > Trump is misleading the public on her Russia policy because he’s afraid of looking like Putin’s stooge. > [@](#): > > But the claim that Clinton gave 20 percent of America’s uranium to Russia is incorrect and clearly misleading. Trump is referring to Russia’s nuclear power agency purchasing a majority stake in a Toronto-based energy company between 2009 and 2013. The company had mines and land in a number of US states with huge uranium production capacity — a move the US State Department signed off on. But PolitiFact did a thorough fact-check of the claim last year when Trump first made it on the campaign trail, and found the following faults with it: > > ``` > The mines, mills, and land the company holds in the US account for 20 percent of the US’s uranium production capacity, not actual produced uranium. > The State Department was one of nine federal agencies and a number of additional independent federal and state regulators that signed off on the deal. > President Obama, not Secretary Clinton, was the only person who could’ve vetoed the deal. > Since Russia doesn’t have the legal right to export uranium out of the US, its main goal was likely to gain access to the company’s uranium assets in Kazakhstan. > Crucially, the main national security concern was not about nuclear weapons proliferation, as Trump suggests, but actually ensuring the US doesn’t have to depend too much on uranium sources from abroad, as the US only makes about 20 percent of the uranium it needs. An advantage in making nuclear weapons wasn’t the main issue because, as PolitiFact notes, “the United States and Russia had for years cooperated on that front, with Russia sending enriched fuel from decommissioned warheads to be used in American nuclear power plants in return for raw uranium.” > > ``` Snopes also checked, they also called it false: > **[Did Hillary Clinton Give 20% of U.S. Uranium to Russia in Exchange for...](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hillary-clinton-uranium-russia-deal/)** > > Allegations of a deal giving Russia ownership of 20% of U.S. uranium deposits in exchange for donations to the Clinton Foundation are unsubstantiated. And now that we are in the pit: Swing a miss again my _pathogenic inheritor_. You are not like Lou Gehrig, you are the disease. ---
**Author:** ![Ramira](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ramira/32/344_2.png) [@Ramira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ramira)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-ambassador-sergey-kislyak-appeared-as-obama-white-house-visitor-at-least-22-times/781276/51 "2017-03-03T21:27:38Z")
> [@Snarky\_Kong](#): > > Good. Fuck the OP. He’s as stupid as **Clothahump** or a troll. Hopefully he’s banned and then gets hit by a car. it is a toy taken out of the toy drawer to get youdancing. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-ambassador-sergey-kislyak-appeared-as-obama-white-house-visitor-at-least-22-times/781276/52 "2017-03-03T21:31:49Z")
> [@arfurvirus](#): > > Rule one of the Leftists. > > Accuse everyone else of what you are really doing, we’ve seen the tactic repeatedly. > [http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/02/russian-ambassador-sergey-kislyak-appeared-as-obama-white-house-visitor-at-least-22-times/](http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/02/russian-ambassador-sergey-kislyak-appeared-as-obama-white-house-visitor-at-least-22-times/) This is weak sauce. It’s one of the jobs of the Head of State to meet diplomats. (Over here in the UK it tends to go via the Foreign Secretary first.) How many of those times were before Obama was sworn in? And of those, how often was Bush - you know, the then sitting President - also present? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-ambassador-sergey-kislyak-appeared-as-obama-white-house-visitor-at-least-22-times/781276/53 "2017-03-03T21:31:58Z")
> [@Snarky\_Kong](#): > > Good. Fuck the OP. [Moderating] That’s a violation of the Pits language rules. Please avoid this in the future. No warning issued. [/Moderating] ---
**Author:** ![neofishboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/neofishboy/32/444_2.png) [@neofishboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neofishboy)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-ambassador-sergey-kislyak-appeared-as-obama-white-house-visitor-at-least-22-times/781276/54 "2017-03-03T21:44:19Z")
I’m trying to wrap my head around how pathetic someone’s life must be if they think that a community of strangers believing them to be a complete idiot is\* preferable\* to a community of strangers not knowing they exist at all. ---
**Author:** ![arfurvirus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@arfurvirus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/arfurvirus)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-ambassador-sergey-kislyak-appeared-as-obama-white-house-visitor-at-least-22-times/781276/55 "2017-03-03T21:54:35Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > [No, Hillary Clinton did not "give Russia 20 percent of the uranium” in the US - Vox](http://www.vox.com/world/2017/2/17/14649980/trump-clinton-russia-uranium) > Snopes also checked, they also called it false: > > [Did Hillary Clinton Give 20% of United States' Uranium to Russia in Exchange for Clinton Foundation Donations? | Snopes.com](http://www.snopes.com/hillary-clinton-uranium-russia-deal/) > > And now that we are in the pit: > Swing a miss again my _pathogenic inheritor_. You are not like Lou Gehrig, you are the disease. The best you could do was VOX and the far Leftist shill couple with a cat known as Snopes, while trying to use your own Leftist’s publication that I sourced who holds my position against me. Laughable, > [@](#): > > That POLITIFACT piece references another POLITIFACT article titled In a nuclear claim, Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton ‘gave up’ one-fifth of U.S. uranium to Russia. > > \*\*Both articles rate the truthfulness of Trump’s accusation that Clinton “gave up” (or was solely responsible) for the uranium sale. > \*\* It’s OK your Commie’s ties to Russia go deeper still. despite the $500K Clinton took from them, I’ll lay off the Saudi money you people looovee Here is yet ANOTHER Leftie publication… Roh Ruh. Pelosi caught lying. surprise. [http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/nancy-pelosi-sergey-kislyak-meeting-235653](http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/nancy-pelosi-sergey-kislyak-meeting-235653) > [@](#): > > House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Friday that she’s never met with the current Russian ambassador, Sergey Kislyak. > > “Not with this Russian ambassador, no,” Pelosi told POLITICO’s Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer during a Playbook interview, when asked whether she had ever met with the Russian envoy. > > But a file photo from Pelosi’s 2010 meeting with Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev shows Kislyak at the table across from Pelosi — then House speaker — and Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.). Medvedev had been in the country for a meeting with President Barack Obama a day earlier and stopped in on Capitol Hill to meet with congressional leaders as well. > > Asked to square Pelosi’s comments with the photo of the meeting, a spokesman said Pelosi simply meant she never had a solo meeting with Kislyak. There isn’t much of the Dem Party left, I realise why they want Sessions so badly, once he is done indicting the pedos and crooks at the bottom maybe He’ll take a crack at Obama… yeah he’s a piece of shit too, and there is proof. 🙂 Obama stole BILLIONS through the Department of Justice via payouts to liberal activist groups Obama set up an unknown number of ways to finance coup attempts after he was out of office via American taxpayer dollars. Here is how it works: You set up an automatic payout within the government that goes to a foundation, “contract”, whatever you dream up before you leave office. Once out, you front as whatever “legitimate” organization received the payout, and then use it for whatever you want. These payouts usually do not ever expire. Obama used a payout through the Department of Justice, to a shell organization he set up. And that’s just what he got caught for, there is no telling how many other payouts he set up, or that any of the previous government officials set up. America could, in fact, be getting bled to death with most tax dollars simply going in the trash via permanent payouts to shell companies and organizations that people set up while in office. Trump now has a huge job of finding out how much B.S. is getting paid to. We all knew there was no possible way the government could spend so much for what we get in return, and this could explain why. As it turns out, in this ONE payout alone that was funneled through the Department of Justice, Obama was taking billions to fund himself and liberal activist groups. It’s only begun, buckle up Trump Derangement Sufferers… Find yourself a “safe space” and some Vaseline, it goes in easier that way. 😃 I’m done here… until the next shoe drops, have a nice weekend., oh 4 - 8 years… ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-ambassador-sergey-kislyak-appeared-as-obama-white-house-visitor-at-least-22-times/781276/56 "2017-03-03T21:56:05Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I’ve never seen a swing-and-a-miss before where the batter was basically standing in the parking lot. Of the wrong stadium ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Economist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c89c15/32.png) [@Evil\_Economist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Economist)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-ambassador-sergey-kislyak-appeared-as-obama-white-house-visitor-at-least-22-times/781276/57 "2017-03-03T22:00:52Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Is it because it was Krispy Kreme? I prefer Dunkin Doughnuts, personally. You disgust me. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-ambassador-sergey-kislyak-appeared-as-obama-white-house-visitor-at-least-22-times/781276/58 "2017-03-03T22:01:04Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Trump speaks English. Obama also speaks English. I’m not so sure about the former. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-ambassador-sergey-kislyak-appeared-as-obama-white-house-visitor-at-least-22-times/781276/59 "2017-03-03T22:04:08Z")
> [@arfurvirus](#): > > The best you could do was VOX and the far Leftist shill couple with a cat known as Snopes, while trying to use your own Leftist’s publication that I sourced who holds my position against me. Laughable, And full stop there for the rest of your diarrhea spew. > **[Humor & Whimsy](https://www.liveabout.com/humor-4687973)** > > Indulge your curiosity and have a little fun with these stories about the weird and the wonderful. With articles on aliens, cats, cartoons, and hoaxes, this collection is guaranteed boredom-basher. > [@](#): > > ``` > CLAIM: Snopes.com is owned by 'a flaming liberal' with a partisan bias. > > First off, it's clear that whoever wrote this piece made it up as they went along. Anyone who has spent even a few minutes browsing Snopes.com knows that the website is owned by two people, not one, husband and wife David and Barbara Mikkelson of southern California. This is stated on the website and has been common knowledge since the website's inception. > > Second, the charge of partisanship is laid without evidence. At no time have the Mikkelsons publicly stated a political preference or affiliation, or expressed support for any particular party or candidate. > > Moreover, Barbara Mikkelson is a Canadian citizen, and as such cannot vote in U.S. elections or contribute to political campaigns. In a statement provided to FactCheck.org, David Mikkelson said his "sole involvement in politics" is voting on election day. In 2000 he registered as a Republican, documents provided to FactCheck.org show, and in 2008 Mikkelson didn't declare a party affiliation at all. Says Mikkelson: "I've never joined a party, worked for a campaign, or donated money to a candidate" (source: FactCheck.org). > > Anyone who claims proof to the contrary needs to come out with it. > > ``` Still more swing and a miss: > [@](#): > > Asked to square Pelosi’s comments with the photo of the meeting, a spokesman said Pelosi simply meant she never had a solo meeting with Kislyak. > > “Of course, that’s what she meant,” said the spokesman, Drew Hammill. “She has never had a private one-on-one with him.” > > No one on either side of the aisle has suggested it’s improper for lawmakers to meet with foreign diplomats. Rather, Democrats have slammed Sessions for failing to disclose those contacts, and the fact that he apparently had private meetings with the Russian envoy. Those meetings came at a time Russia was increasingly believed by U.S. intelligence agencies to be meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Best bet? you are just posting the links your fake news sources are pointing at without you bothering to read the whole context. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-ambassador-sergey-kislyak-appeared-as-obama-white-house-visitor-at-least-22-times/781276/60 "2017-03-03T22:12:06Z")
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