[1rudeboy]

Apparently some folk cannot grasp the fact that while some of us applaud Putin for turning Russia back to its traditional moral values, we are certainly not abandoning America's traditional moral values; which include a maximum degree of personal responsibility & a minimum degree of Government.

I can grasp the fact that those folk who wish to trade Obama for Putin, are abandoning those [other] "traditional moral values" of which you speak, and are actually rushing headlong to do so.

[Ohioan]

Putin appears to be a loyal Russian; so the talk of a trade is purely rhetorical. Why does that seem to make you so angry?

What those on this thread have been extolling is Putin's actions that have been strengthening the forces of Faith & moral tradition, and removing some of the Marxist era assaults on Faith & moral values. No one has suggested that he is trying to Americanize Russia; nor that we should Russianize America.

But certainly American Conservatives can applaud his reintroduction of traditional religious values in the Russian schools; his support for traditional family values as against some of the aberrant nonsense being promoted in America--such as the oxymoron "same sex marriage"; and certainly he has not embraced the attack on the very concept of the nation, which appeals to pseudo-intellectual poseurs in American & European academia.

William Flax