It was the best of times,
it was the worst of times,
it was the age of wisdom,
it was the age of foolishness,
it was the epoch of belief,
it was the epoch of incredulity,
it was the season of Light,
it was the season of Darkness,
it was the spring of hope,
it was the winter of despair,
it was the worst of times,
it was the age of wisdom,
it was the age of foolishness,
it was the epoch of belief,
it was the epoch of incredulity,
it was the season of Light,
it was the season of Darkness,
it was the spring of hope,
it was the winter of despair,
we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way — in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evel, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
There was a president with a crossbow, and a president who liked to bow.
Vladimir Putin, prime minister and former president of Russia, shot a whale with a crossbow today.
Compare that to the president of the United States, who bows to other leaders.
Remember when the United States used to have a president who … was a man?
I miss those days.
A whale with a crossbow? This Putin guy is growing on me.
One shoots whales with a crossbow, the other snacks on lobster tempura. Good thing there aren’t too many whales near Martha’s Vineyard. Wouldn’t want any presidential relatives to take a bolt to the rear.
What a great article! Those CBS guys are really ticked off at our beloved Pooty Poot. I wonder if it’s a result of jealousy. Putin probably has higher approval ratings than the golden boy Obama. In Arkansas.
They also throw in “Scientists say” without so much as a “Some” to come before. Par for the course.
Can we get Putin as our president? I’m pretty sure we can find his birth certificate in Alaska. (or at least see it from Alaska)
I am telling you, Obama is an ass-kisser. Putin however, is an ass-kicker.
Wait… Putin was only trying to get a skin sample of the whale for some scientists?
Heck, I thought he was going to drag it ashore with his bare hands and strap it to the hood of his 4×4. “Whale BBQ at my house, comrades!”
This is one time when reading the linked article left me more disappointed than informed.
Still, comparing Putin to Obama is unfair.
One is a cold-hearted, power-mad, media-manipulating socialist, and the other is Prime Minister of Russia.
Pretty sad when our president is so pathetic he makes a little wuss like Putin seem tough.
One of them shoots blubber rich blow holed mammals with a crossbow and the other shoots off his blubbering pie hole when the rich don’t bow and he gets cross.
Remember seeing an old movie years back, “The Mouse that Roared.” Peter Sellers was in it. For some reason that movie now seems all too real.
Better not let Putin in on the Nuke the Moon plan. He might just do it. He might even go to the moon to deliver it.
Well, Putin still hasn’t canceled the 2007 contract to sell Iran advanced S-300 air defense systems (and Iran now claims to somehow have acquired four systems) and is fueling their nuclear program, among other things. The cold war / proxy war epoch isn’t over.
There’s nothing funny about Putin – and nothing corrigible about Obama. And nothing funny about this comment.
Hey Jimmy, we’re just funnin’. No one here has forgotten who Putin is, nor from whence he came. In truth, there’s not much that’s funny about Obama’s policies, but we laugh anyway.
I know, Burma. I didn’t mean my comment as a commentary on other comments. Sometimes, I’m just not funny. Hell, most of the time, I’m not funny. I do laugh a lot, though – mainly when reading sites like IMAO.
I’m just really worried about Obama’s foreign policy incompetence. A relatively peaceful world is something we all take for granted.
O’s bowing makes me cross.
In fairness, if BO was leaning that far forward on a little dinghy on choppy ocean waters it would be way too tempting to resist giving him a little nudge forward.