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The Secret American Subculture Of Putin-Worshippers
National Journal ^ | September 23, 2013 | Mark Cogan

Posted on 09/23/2013 8:44:27 AM PDT by Biggirl

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To: Biggirl

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41 posted on 09/23/2013 9:38:55 AM PDT by maine-iac7 (Christian is as Christian does - by their fruits)
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To: MDspinboyredux
You think Putin gives a s$&t about American citizens?

You think Angela Merkel does? How about the president of Bulgaria? Why should they? You think Obama does?

42 posted on 09/23/2013 9:39:34 AM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Biggirl
Russia Warns US Communist Threat Endangering Entire World

Russian Calls Out Barack Obama As A Communist

Russian Paper Warns 'Ignorant' Americans For Electing Communist Obama

43 posted on 09/23/2013 9:40:30 AM PDT by meadsjn
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To: Fresh Wind

I don’t worship Putin, I merely dislike him considerably less than I dislike President FUBO.


Exactly!


44 posted on 09/23/2013 9:40:39 AM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: tanknetter
Here ya go -


45 posted on 09/23/2013 9:40:43 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Enterprise

And Obama worshipers.


46 posted on 09/23/2013 9:41:46 AM PDT by sport
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To: TexasCajun

Indeed. Riding bitch is the perfect metaphor for Obama.


47 posted on 09/23/2013 9:43:41 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Tagline: (optional, printed after your name on post))
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To: Biggirl; a fool in paradise
One murders innocent fish. The other does something practical and useful.


48 posted on 09/23/2013 9:45:20 AM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: dmz; tanknetter
I would have thought that Putin’s slap at American exceptionalism (an article of faith here at FR) would have blown that admiration of Putin to smithereens.

It might have, if Putin had used the FR definition of American Exceptionalism.

Putin accepted the Leftist DemoRat, MSM, Hollywood entertainment industry definition of it to lecture about.

I doubt Putin is even aware of the FR definition.

Putin was addressing the "American Exceptionalism" that the MSM presented to him. Remember, the leftist DemoRat media controls the language and how it is used to present America to the world, except here at FR, and that same MSM uses language manipulation to demonize conservatives and all their American Exceptionalism principles.

49 posted on 09/23/2013 9:50:11 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: Biggirl

Putin is what he is but I admit enjoying him make a fool out of 0bama


50 posted on 09/23/2013 9:56:26 AM PDT by rrrod (at home in Medellin Colombia)
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To: Biggirl

I’m not a Putin lover, but there’s no doubt he is effective at promoting Russian interests.

Contrast that with President Zero.


51 posted on 09/23/2013 9:58:26 AM PDT by JackOfVA
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To: Biggirl
So the libs have finally found a Russian dictator they don't like, eh? Ninety-six years too late.

What's with all these "palaeos" who think that American political correctness is somehow connected to "Israeli imperialism?" Are they really that crazy???

52 posted on 09/23/2013 10:09:10 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (The Left: speaking power to truth since Shevirat HaKelim.)
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To: Enterprise

Secret?


53 posted on 09/23/2013 10:12:00 AM PDT by gotribe (Vladimir Putin is MY President)
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To: Biggirl

Putin is a leader, a man’s man, a strong character.

We have a wimpy, limp-wristed, homosexual liberal.

As Rush says: Conservatism is attractive, just use it and stop being wimpy.


54 posted on 09/23/2013 10:13:49 AM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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To: Biggirl

It’s improper, downright rude, and incorrect to call such people “worshippers”. “Admirers” is far more accurate. But calling them admirers raises two honest questions:

1) What is it about Putin that they admire?, and

2) Why admire Putin, when there is a multitude of inferior American “leaders” they could admire?

To answer these questions, you need to first put yourself in Putin’s shoes: How would you lead Russia if you were Russia’s leader? Remember, Russians are *not* Americans, so do not do things “the American way”, nor do they share the same expectations of leaders, nor do they have the same goals as do Americans. Different history, different culture.

What you promise to the Russian people, and what you deliver of those promises has to resonate with Russians. It has to be what the Russian people want, not what you want.

Second, why imagine Putin as a good leader, unless you contrast him with America’s rather ineffectual, unpopular, and deficient recent leaders?

Let’s face facts: while W. Bush was fine and dandy with carrying out the War on Terror against a determined foreign enemy, he seemed incapable of *not* treating America and Americans like we were the enemy, too. This is America, land of peace, freedom and liberty. And that just made him cringe, because he saw terrorists everywhere. So he created an authoritarian state, because... (and that’s where the problem lies. It was an oppressive solution without a problem.)

Then, of course, there is that worthless worm, that inferior Earthling, called Obama. As Aesop might remark, we, the frog people, replaced King Stork with King Dork.

He is such an immensity of “suck” that Putin looks wonderful in comparison. Putin knows where he is, what he is doing, what Russia likes and doesn’t like. And most of all, he is a Russian *nationalist*.

And believe me, having a nationalist as your national leader is leaps and bounds better than having some mealy mouthed *internationalist*, who is more loyal to the United Nations than he is to the United States.

He wears it well, even if he is a Russian.

Maybe if the American people are smart, we can elect a POTUS more like him than the previous two disasters.


55 posted on 09/23/2013 10:14:38 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (The best War on Terror News is at rantburg.com)
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To: dmz
Putin has gotten some conservative kudos for recent comments about the importance of Christianity to Western Civilization and for his resistance to the gay agenda. But, apart from that, I think most conservatives realize that Putin is in some ways a thug and not someone we would really want running this country.

As for conservatives "worshipping" Putin, worship of political figures is much more a liberal trait. Every presidential election cycle, the MSM anoint the Democratic candidate as the smartest man in the world, and his wife as the smartest and most beautiful woman in the world. Meanwhile, on FR, virtually every Republican president or presidential candidate or politician seems to have as many critics as fans.

I have yet to see a conservative wearing a Putin t-shirt, but all my life I've seen libs touting people like Castro, Chairman Mao, Che, Hugo Chavez, Ho Chi Minh, Lenin, Marx, and other leftist rogues.
56 posted on 09/23/2013 10:14:45 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: MDspinboyredux

Putin isn’t waging war on Christians, heterosexuals,and working class/small business owners like the anti Constitution globalists of both parties.


57 posted on 09/23/2013 10:24:20 AM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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To: Maverick68
Wait...I thought the Left/media freaking LOVED Commies?!?

They don't like the foreign commies showing up the domestic ones they have true, leg-tingling love for.

58 posted on 09/23/2013 10:25:46 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Why is our military going to be used as Al Qaeda's air force in Syria?)
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To: Biggirl

59 posted on 09/23/2013 10:26:59 AM PDT by Zakeet (Democrats haven't destroyed your freedoms ... you can still visit them at the Smithsonian)
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To: dmz

It didn’t because our politicians have successfully destroyed our exceptionalism.


60 posted on 09/23/2013 10:28:00 AM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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