He does not have a reputation as a thug among his target audience, and I am sure he is targeting not Americans or Western Europeans, but his electorate, fow whom his approval rating hovers between 70 and 80%.
--- "B." <docile_body at yahoo.com> wrote:
> The Putin thing is pretty comical for the same
> reason
> it's hilarious when Bush goes around in his cowboy
> duds loking like the Marlboro man, when he's "just
> tending to his ranch," like Putin here "was just
> fishing." I mean, the guy, who has a reputation as
> kind of a thug, is shirtless in camos walking down a
> river. I think it's as funny as when Dubya is busy
> clearing brush in his cowboy costume, or when Kerry
> was in hunting fatigues. ("He wa sjsut hunting.
> What?
> WHAT!?") But you seem pretty defensive of it.
> *shrug*
>
> Mussolini got pretty hot, too, I hear, had to remove
> the ol' shirt. What?
>
> -B.
>
>
> Chris Doss wrote:
>
> "I don't think there has ever been a Russian
> government (except for that of Stalin during the
> war)
> that was popular both in Russia and the United
> Statessimultaneously for any extended period of
> time."
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