It’s easy (for me anyway) to trash talk our Commander and Chief for dragging us into an ill conceived war with no exit strategy for what appears to be a mixed bag of motivation ranging from straight up “you tried to kill my daddy revenge” to a strict diversionary tactic intended to take all eyes away from an economic plan that doesn’t exist. However, Russian President Vladimir Putin seems to be bumping people off at an alarming rate (Anna Politkovskaya, Alexander Litvinenko, etc). So while things may be bad here, they’re worse somewhere else.
Cheers to not being in last place!
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On the Cheney Presidency « Chin Chin! // July 23, 2007 at 10:23 pm
[...] Presidency will be remembered for making us all realize that it could be worse. Going back to STP’s post makes me wonder who would win if Cheney ran against Alexander Putin? We will never know, but I do [...]