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'Alpha Dog' is at it again! Putin leads biker gang in his latest macho photo opportunity
The Daily Mail ^

Posted on 08/30/2011 8:00:55 AM PDT by AfricanChristian

Politicians will usually kick off an election campaign with a rousing speech, a meet-and-greet handshaking session or a nice photo opportunity kissing a baby. Unless, of course, they are Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who joined a biker gang and led them on a testosterone-fuelled motorcade. Over-revving the engine as he sat astride a three-wheeled Harley Davidson, the former KGB tough man looked both ludicrous and very much at home in the latest of macho stunts that have punctuated his political career.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: agitprop; bikes; macho; propaganda; putin; russia
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To: GoldenPup

“This guy seems to have some real “manhood” identity problems. Wonder if he is a closet queer?”

I have been thinking the same thing for some time.

He cetainly does have some kind of problem with his manhood.


41 posted on 08/30/2011 8:38:09 AM PDT by Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: Salamander
The vets who can get back on a bike love it. Many of the vets at the home in Pocatello aren't up to riding, but they get a big kick out of the local "rolling thunder" running 200 to 300 bikes by the door at the home. They line up on the sidewalk in front to watch the show. It's about time for another run. Wish I was home in Pokey to participate.
42 posted on 08/30/2011 8:40:20 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: GreenLanternCorps

I never said I agreed with his policies, but he is macho.


43 posted on 08/30/2011 8:41:14 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Myrddin

Really?

I’ve never heard of a trike fatality, before.

Were they all bunched up close while riding?

With a trike on a group run, it’s one-per-lane and staggered rather than the usual two-per-lane and staggered.

Terrible shame.

:(

Because of Himself’s design, ours handle just as quick as a two-wheeler and we don’t have that “you gotta wrestle it around the curves” issue.


44 posted on 08/30/2011 8:41:41 AM PDT by Salamander (Can't sleep...clowns will eat me.)
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To: AfricanChristian

He’s trying to out-tough Dick Cheney.


45 posted on 08/30/2011 8:42:17 AM PDT by GreatRoad (O < 0)
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Bump


46 posted on 08/30/2011 8:43:15 AM PDT by Ghengis
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To: Salamander

You are not a loser. And kudos for offering a product that enables injured vets to keep riding.

Thank you.


47 posted on 08/30/2011 8:43:47 AM PDT by GreenLanternCorps ("Barack Obama" is Swahili for "Jimmy Carter".)
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To: Myrddin

We do a lot of veteran’s home runs.

I’m a girl so it’s okay for me to cry.

Not sure how the guy bikers deal with some of the things they see there, though.

Our annual run to the Martinsburg VA is up to anywhere from 3000-4000 bikes.
[it’s the weekend after Rolling Thunder and a lot of those riders stay for our ride]

The vets love it.


48 posted on 08/30/2011 8:46:15 AM PDT by Salamander (Can't sleep...clowns will eat me.)
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To: klpt

That’s one pretty looking squid.


49 posted on 08/30/2011 8:48:45 AM PDT by NorthStarStateConservative (Springtime in America will arrive on January 21, 2013.)
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To: Rocco DiPippo

^^ :P


50 posted on 08/30/2011 8:48:59 AM PDT by chris37 (representative)
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To: GoldenPup
You know nothing of Russki Kultur, my friend.

In The Rodina, a queer is defined as a man who prefers the company of women to vodka. And as far as this "Trike" issue goes, most Russkis are so pixilated most of the time, and their roads so bad, that a trike is prolly a good answer for their particular challenges involving vodka and balance.

51 posted on 08/30/2011 8:49:14 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (America. Too late to fix. Too early to start the shooting.)
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To: GreenLanternCorps

It gets better.

Out of ALL the companies building trikes, we’re the *only* ones who give a discount to vets.

We love them, as you can tell, here.

http://ustrikes.com/military_tribute.htm

Even guys who can’t ride ever again write to us about that page...some call us, literally crying because they can’t believe some people still *honor* them.

Is that a shame, or what?


52 posted on 08/30/2011 8:50:13 AM PDT by Salamander (Can't sleep...clowns will eat me.)
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To: Last Dakotan

He’s either calling out Chuck Norris or he wants a call from Playgirl.


53 posted on 08/30/2011 8:50:51 AM PDT by Sybeck1 (Why does so few (IA, NH, SC) decide so much?)
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To: chris37
Speaking of closets, where are the Mombasa Moonbeam's former girl friends?

BTW, I think he looks very dashing in that bike safety helmet, which I notice match the sorta gay shoe things. Riding a small girl's bike in that absurd get-up, may indicate that he is secure in his masculinity. Or Michelle's.

54 posted on 08/30/2011 8:53:39 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (America. Too late to fix. Too early to start the shooting.)
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To: ilovesarah2012
Forget Putin...check out "Alexander"

*wow*

;D

55 posted on 08/30/2011 8:53:39 AM PDT by Salamander (Can't sleep...clowns will eat me.)
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To: Salamander

Uhh, No.


56 posted on 08/30/2011 8:54:52 AM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (Where is our military?)
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To: ilovesarah2012

He may project “macho” but to me it looks like a mid-life-crisis writ large.

Trophy wife? Check
Expensive toys? Check
Showing off? Check (and how!)

If he were a CEO of a Fortune 500 company we would think he was pathetic. But being Prime Minster and dictator of Russia he gets headlines.


57 posted on 08/30/2011 8:55:31 AM PDT by GreenLanternCorps ("Barack Obama" is Swahili for "Jimmy Carter".)
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To: Salamander

Those are some scary-looking men!


58 posted on 08/30/2011 8:55:39 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: US_MilitaryRules

Good answer.

>:-)


59 posted on 08/30/2011 8:56:32 AM PDT by Salamander (Can't sleep...clowns will eat me.)
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To: Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)

So if a man does manly things, he is a homosexual??? I’m confused. I thought they were hairdressers and interior designers and ballet dancers!


60 posted on 08/30/2011 8:58:20 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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