Hey JOHN!
Why don’t you inform the AMERICAN voters, that OBAMA ONLY RULES FOR HIMSELF!?!?!
What the hell planet does McLaim live on?... our rights are constantly under attack by the president HE said would be a good president, if elected, back in the 08 election. Plus it took him over a week to write this Op Ed... took Putin less than 24 hrs to get his submitted at the NYT.
How do you say “STFU” in po russki?
I hold Vlad in fairly high regard. He found himself elected to be Mayor of Detroit. His nation had failed. His task was to discover and then implement processes to build a nation
i’m not certain he has been successful but he apparently has reversed the trends.The population is no longer declining. Young women or at least some young women have enough faith in the future to resume having babies.
His encounter with Obama is a freebie of fantastic importance. Vlad gets immense credit and prestige by mostly outwitting and staying a head of a fool. It is not hard. We do it everyday here on Free Republic, but compared to Vlad’s, our stage is tiny, lacking the whole world as the audience.
A judo master, Vlad sees the blow coming, dodges and zap....... Barack is on the ground with his ass exposed.
His trusty long faced second, who by the way served in Vietnam, rather than throw in the towel lights a gas fire in the water bucket and warms his cold feet.
Now if only McCain and his fellow Republicans would apply to same zeal to defending the rights of AMERICAN citizens to live freely according our inalienable rights under the Constitution. Where was McCain when we got the Patriot Act? Oh, that's right, he was supporting it.
Mcgoof please stop your anti-Russian crap. Take your night cap and go to bed.
John McCain, Obama’s bitch since 2007.
McPain needs a one way ticket out of the political arena. His brain is fried.
Oh, really? Russia GDP was increased with 250% (30% increase per year) since Putin's first eight years as president. I call that a success. In 2000 the GDP was 7,305,600 millon roubles, in 2009 - 39,952,177 million. The industry grew by 75%, investments increased by 125%, and the average salary increased eightfold from $80 to $640. The number of people living below the poverty line decreased from 30% in 2000 to 14% in 2008.
Even the quality of post-Soviet Russian education is improving. In 1995, Russia was ranked 14th and 15th, respectively, in math and science out of 59 countries. In 2011, it ranked sixth and seventh, respectively.
If Russia deserves better than Putin, what about America which deserves much better than Obama (and his bootlicker McCain)?