"Regarding Putin's popularity. He is about that popular, and the 72% is actually 8 points lower than opinion polls showed prior to the election. Tell me this, would you have rathered Zuganov been elected? Or the radical anti-Semite self-hating Jew Zhirinovsky?"
Ah, I was wondering when one of you were going to get around to bringing that up. Sounds like a typical Soviet election to me...rigged. What do the Communists call it when you present the people with false alternatives to ensure the "right" guy wins?...Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis.
"Ah, I was wondering when one of you were going to get around to bringing that up. Sounds like a typical Soviet election to me...rigged. What do the Communists call it when you present the people with false alternatives to ensure the "right" guy wins?...Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis."
And you would know that from all of your interaction with Russians and from all that time you spend over there to assess the situation? You're wrong, wrong, wrong. Putin is extremely popular with most people, but hated by Communists, neonazis, anti-Semites, nationalists, and you. You're in "good" company.
Not according to the OSCE and US observers, unless of course you are actively suggesting that President Bush would help Putin rig an election. Are you?