We have one:
Posted on 10/27/2009 11:34:18 AM PDT by george76
We have one:
You never know. Arnold has pretensions to being a world player, I mean, this is an actor we’re talking about. All of them have shameless egos and pretensions.
Putin is tougher than Arnold and a hell of lot smarter. An idiot like the Gubernator would never have survived in Putin’s Russia.
He would have been sent to the gulag for mismanaging a state enterprise
Arnold was a tool for the Kennedy’s to take control over California.
And don’t I know it. I have no idea why, but I don’t think Putin is evil so much as someone who has had to survive and succeed in the environment he lived in. He’s had a lot of tough choices and made them. I plan on reading his autobiography and I’m interested in knowing more on how his mind works.
Over there, politics is chess and so is life.
Will it be a Nude?
“Arnold has pretensions to being a world player”
Well, he’s hit the glass ceiling here in America, where else has he got to go? I’d say he should go back to Austria and become king, or whatever they have. But then he’d be one of 30 or so water-carriers for the EU, so what’s the point?
“I have no idea why, but I don’t think Putin is evil so much as someone who has had to survive and succeed in the environment he lived in”
He’s not just some dude who used to work for the KGB and fell into politics. He’s a Bad Ass Machiavellian with the Eye of the Tiger, for lack of better terms. He’s a power-a-holic statist. Don’t be lulled by his exoticness.
Cool. and aRnie the Term-Limited can send him a bronze cast statue of a Trojan Horse.
Sounds a bit kinky to me, too.
So has Lenin, but he was no complex personality. He said what he would do and did it, and quite single-mindedly at that. It's not Putin's personality but his deeds that don't leave people indifferent.
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