[elhombrelibre]

Putin does have monitors in the newsrooms, news sites, and newspapers. They not only stop bad news they must promote good pro-Putin news. He has the power Obama wants. What I cannot understand is why anyone who opposes Obama would go along with Putin as if he were a fine conservative. You cannot be a true Conservative and favor a dictatorship that enforces, say, Christianity. True Christians are Christians regardless of the state, like the early Christians, not because the dictator tells them to be a Christian. Anyone who could support Putin because he forces Christianity on his people would feel more comfortable with the Islamists. They're theocrats, not conservatives. And Putinistas are not conservative or libertarian. They're either dupes or authoritarian statists.

[DaveA37]

Freepers, BE AWARE. Put NOTHING past the phony called POTUS.

[TigersEye]

You got me. I guess you’ll have to ask one of them. I can’t speak for Christians either.

[Smokin' Joe]

What I cannot understand is why anyone who opposes Obama would go along with Putin as if he were a fine conservative.

For the same reason people went along with Stalin, Hitler, and others willingly. They perceive a strong leader who will show them the path to prosperity and glory.

For that, they are willing to overlook the many sins and failings of their leader until it is too late.

It doesn't hurt that Putin is showing Obama up, but those who do not like Obama must remember Putin's KGB roots and the cold war. Failure to do so will put them with the willing in Germany in the '30s. Dupes, tools, and useful idiots.