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Bush and Putin’s soul: a masterpiece of product placement
My friend Cell Whitman emailed me a few days ago about a C-SPAN interview with the Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler. Kessler was discussing U.S. – Soviet relations, and the difficulties they present putative Russia expert Condoleezza Rice, when he let fly with this little gem about Bush and Putin:
[A]t his very first meeting with Putin, Putin told [Bush] a story about a cross that he had blessed in Israel that used to belong to his grandmother. People that are aware of this conversation at the State Department feel that the President got played by Putin. There is no cross. There was just some KGB story that he made up. But it had a real impact on President Bush. That’s when he walked out and said, ‘I looked into his soul and decided this is the guy I can work with.’ And for the longest time in the first term, if you talked to then National Security Adviser Rice, she always painted the relationship with Russia in very rosy terms. …”
Weep and pray: four years of our Russia policy were shaped by Putin superimposing a cross between himself and Bush’s gaze. The Putin-Bush press conference in which Bush made his remarks about Putin’s soul is here.
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Putin’s ancestors used to believe that with a cross one could deter devils, vampires and such. You suppose they were on to something?
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:14 pmWow, if Putin can pull the wool over Bush’s eyes this easily is there any wonder that Cheney and the neocon’s were so successful in pulling the wool over Bush’s eyes.
I guess this is the difference between always going on you gut instinct and applying sound analysis to an issue.
“Can’t fool me twice” my ass. This clown can be fooled as many times as it takes. And since he only allows yes men in his inner circle — well, you get the picture.
October 5th, 2007 at 9:24 amBoth are masters of deceipt playing out in the bigger chess game where the are
October 15th, 2007 at 2:42 amboth puppets of the real puppet masters
and pupper masters to the gullable public