Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Mystery Photo!
24 Comments:
By 
K. Pablo, at
Wed Aug 22, 11:10:00 PM:
By 
, at
Wed Aug 22, 11:15:00 PM:
He made quite a media splash today in his shirtless photos from this fishing trip. Vlad Putin, sex symbol. Who'd a thunk it?
By TigerHawk, at
Wed Aug 22, 11:17:00 PM:
The chicks dig the Vladerator, no question.
By D.E. Cloutier, at
Wed Aug 22, 11:30:00 PM:
Too bad we can't put him at the top of Republican ticket in 2008.
That would make an interesting four years.
By , at
Thu Aug 23, 01:02:00 AM:
Looks to young and cool to be AL GORE And besides AL GORE would be blowing HOT AIR which he is full of
By SR, at
Thu Aug 23, 01:32:00 AM:
Getting ready to eat Hillary Clinton's lunch.
By , at
Thu Aug 23, 09:44:00 AM:
How about the pipes on that guy! No wonder he thumbs his nose at the rest of the world! Not only does he have the world's second largest cache of nukes and other unthinkables, he could pretty much kick any other ruler's arse...
By , at
Thu Aug 23, 10:34:00 AM:
Does that guy look like a hard case or what? Apparently, you can take the politician out of the KGB, but you can't take the KGB out of the politician.
By mikentexas, at
Thu Aug 23, 10:35:00 AM:
By , at
Thu Aug 23, 11:20:00 AM:
Revulsion is more the thought that comes to my mind, when I see pictures of Vlad. I think he's very strange, and I've wondered more than once if he doesn't have a touch of Felix Dzerzhinsky's issues in his makeup.
Andrew
By , at
Thu Aug 23, 12:15:00 PM:
Even I have to admit, he's cool. Dastardly, but cool.
Umm, yeah, cool like Stalin.
By Georg Felis, at
Thu Aug 23, 01:10:00 PM:
So that's where John Kerry's hat went...
By , at
Thu Aug 23, 01:23:00 PM:
K Pablo, that's funny. But I think Joe is few years older than Putin.
Putin may seem sinister to us at this point along the curve, but from the perspective of some Russians, he is doing what they wish of their DEMOCRATICALLY elected leader. That Democracy thing is not the magic hat that many wish it was.
-David
By , at
Thu Aug 23, 01:25:00 PM:
Nice pic, but take any picture of Bush and Putin together, Bush almost always the better looking one.
For example:
http://moscow.usembassy.gov/embassy/photo.php?record_id=60
To be fair, all those comparisons with Dzerzhinsky and Stalin are silly.
By TigerHawk, at
Thu Aug 23, 01:32:00 PM:
Interesting factoid. According to the most recent Pew survey, Putin is almost as unpopular as Bush outside his own country, particularly in Europe. However, Russians, unlike Americans, do not seem to care. Putin's domestic approval is over 80%. Interesting that foreign unpopularity does not hurt a Russian president, but does hurt an American one.
By , at
Thu Aug 23, 02:04:00 PM:
To be fair, all those comparisons with Dzerzhinsky and Stalin are silly.
http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/6031-8.cfm
Not that silly.
By D.E. Cloutier, at
Thu Aug 23, 03:29:00 PM:
"Getting ready to eat Hillary Clinton's lunch."
Great line, SR.
By Unknown, at
Thu Aug 23, 05:57:00 PM:
Which comparison to Stalin and Dzerzhinsky do you believe is silly, Candide? Why?
By , at
Thu Aug 23, 06:27:00 PM:
Just look at the pics, 'andrew'.
Can you possibly imagine Old Communists looking and behaving like that?
My feeling is, we are mentally hamstringing ourselves by trying to understand Russians using memories of the XX century. We need to adjust and change, because they certainly have.
By , at
Thu Aug 23, 08:19:00 PM:
The Russians have changed? In what way have they changed? Not threatening other countries anymore? Not playing cold war games with U.S. bases? Or perhaps you meant British airspace? Certainly, the Russian government of today wouldn't murder exiled nationals on foreign soil, like downtown London, as they did in past times (you know, like the bad old 20th century). Things are different today as compared to the cold war, you might say, in at least the free flow of information. The BBC, for example, is now freely available in Russia. Oops! It's not anymore. Putin's photo ops are always very staged, but I do wonder sometimes at some of his odd actions around children, as vaguely reminiscent of old Iron Felix. Now, which thing do you think is silly? The Stalin part? Of course there's no real comparison to Stalin, since Putin's not busy building a cult of personality.
Andrew
By , at
Thu Aug 23, 08:40:00 PM:
Wait a minute. Its Dr. Evil, isn't it?
By CW, at
Thu Aug 23, 10:01:00 PM:
By , at
Fri Aug 24, 12:55:00 AM:
Its CROCADLE DUN DEES younger brother HEY MATE WHERE YOUR BIG KNIFE?
By , at
Fri Aug 24, 11:44:00 AM:
What, Putin kissed a child on a tummy?
Better re-stock you bunkers now!
