[Hot Tabasco]

I’ve been told by my betters here on FR that Russians are wonderful people - so much smarter than we Americans.

HUH???? Care to name some names to support your statement?

[miss marmelstein]

Nope, I don’t supply names. Plenty of folks here who love Putin and his people.

[SamAdams76]

I can't remember the names and it pretty much stopped a couple years ago, but there was a period of time when there was some sort of "Putin" fan club here on Free Republic.

Basically they were saying how much better the U.S. would be if they had a "manly" president like Putin as opposed to an effeminate one like Obama.

It got rather creepy too. They'd be posting pictures of Putin naked from the waist up and Photo-shopped to the body of a horse, alongside a picture of Obama doing something unbecoming of a president, like riding a bicycle or eating an ice cream. It was almost like homoerotic worship of Putin.

Like I said, it died down a year or so ago, around the time Putin started showing aggression towards the West, but for a while, it got weird around here.

Not that I don't think Obama is a joke of a president and is the most inept and unprepared president in our nation's history, but to position Putin as an alternative - not cool.