[Frank_Discussion]

You could not have hit the nail on the head any more squarely.

"Vat can I say vidout droppink a fly in da borscht, eh?"

He has a fundamental, perhaps willful, misunderstanding of our R E P U B L I C and the freedom to dispute and arbitrate elections, and his stance on the Iraq war is disingenuous at best.

When he first came into power, I liked him. He's had to work pretty hard for me to dislike him, but he's achieved the goal.

[veracious]

Putin's wrong, you're right; the correct answer is the USA is a Republic. What we're exporting in the form of government models, I'm not sure, but I hope we're teaching the rest of the world that: A) democracy doesn't work B) Constitution Republics do. I'll add C) tyranny needs corrective attention.