I thought Dubya and Vlad were supposed to be pals.

[saltpoint]

That smackdown today about Russia's not wanting the kind of democracy Iraq has sounds to me like it was directed right between Dubya's eyes.

Kapow.

[SoCalDem]

They broke up.. it was in the papers :)

pics

[saltpoint]

9. Junior needs to learn how to make friends better.

And then keep the ones he makes.

[NewInNewJ.]

1. Well, Bush

looked into his soul, what else does he need to know?

[shaniqua6392]

2. Putin thinks Shrub is an idiot

just like the rest of us do. I laughed my ass off when I heard Putin make that comment.

[saltpoint]

18. And Putin's slam today seemed completely effortless. It was just

child's play to him. Bush smirked his way through the event as usual, but Putin bulldozed him with one or two sentences.

Kapow.

[Freedom_from_Chains]

3. W is too stupid to know when he is being bitch slapped around

by Putin.

[saltpoint]

17. Can't you just see Putin, returning to his hotel room, saying to his

aides, "Christ, that guy's the biggest jackass in the history of the world."

[Freedom_from_Chains]

26. Yep, I have no problem seeing that at all. n/t

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. It was humiliating for jr. His only response was "Just wait"

The kind of childish passive/aggressive nonresponse you would expect from a liar shit for brains.

[saltpoint]

11. Exactly. It's that very attitude that gets him the reputation he's earned

and here he is again, digging the hole even deeper.

[Freedom_from_Chains]

27. Same thing he has been giving us. "Stay the course." n/t

[Igel]

5. Volodya, not Vlad.

Vova, even.

Although the idea of calling Putin either is amusing.

Perhaps Voloden'ka :-)

[saltpoint]

12. igil, help me out here... did I get the name wrong?

[Igel]

28. Nope.

Vladimir just has the familiar form Volodya or Vova. From those you get Voloden'ka and some others. (Vlad almost needs to be followed by "... the Impaler".)

Sort of like Jonathan, Jon, Jonny, Jonnikins, etc.

But Russians don't use them like we do: you'd call a stranger "Jon" in short order, but the idea of calling Putin 'Volodya' is humorous.

[saltpoint]

30. Well, I had no idea. I get your reference and lay-out a little.

You must be well-versed in Russian.

[bluestateguy]

6. Baby Bush was also friends with Vicente Fox

That ended too.

[saltpoint]

13. That's right. our president is going to have to get some lessons in

playing well with others.

On Vicente Fox -- a lost opportunity for the United States owing to a personal failure of George W. Bush.

[davidwparker]

7. He smacked down Darth Cheney days before that with his comment

about a misdirected hunting shot.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

8. Lover's quarrel. Nothing more, nothing to see here, move

along, nothing to see, everything is as it should be.

[saltpoint]

14. It could be. Do you think it was staged, or that Putin just got

weary of the bullshit?

It was an awfully public put-down.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

19. He's just callin shrub for the bullshitter he is... everyone, most

foreign leaders think it, Putin just put it in words.

[saltpoint]

23. He did. He surely did. I'm stealing the term "smack-down" from

other DUers on this story, but it just fits perfectly.

I expect Jon Stewart is going to have a good time with this next week.

[Hekate]

10. There's a gaping difference between the two: intelligence, experience...

...actual hard work in building a career -- as opposed to being the lazy, spoiled son of excessive privilege who never was held accountable for a single personal failure in his life.

I don't think Putin is a nice man, far from it, but niceness has nothing to do with it. He's an old KGB hand, and Bush Senior used to run the CIA -- those two actually have more in common than Junior does with Putin.

Hekate

[saltpoint]

16. I'm buying every syllable of your post, Hekate. You're right -- charm

is not Putin's long suit, unless lamprey eels have charm.

And Dubya is in over his head on just about any foreign stage. Or any domestic stage, too, as long as we're on the subject.

[Renew Deal]

15. Bush made a dumb remark.

It's not much more than that.

[saltpoint]

24. One of many dumb remarks Dubya has made over the last 6 years.

Isolated, it wouldn't strike me so much, but the world-stage aspect draws a lot of attention to it.

Dubya claims to have brought democracy to Iraq.

"We aren't interested in THAT kind of democracy," Putin says, microphones plugged in going out to every news outlet in the world.

Bush's Iraq War laid to waste in one sentence.

[eShirl]

20. Dubya swooned like a schoolgirl

but Pootie never said he loved him.

[Zynx]

21. Putin = former KGB. Bush = drunken frat boy. No respect.

Considering that George H.W. Bush was Director of the CIA during the Cold War, maybe he should have told Dubya a bit about trusting/liking KGB personnel.

I remember an idiotic ruse from the Russians that Putin somehow didn't speak any English - despite having graduated KGB school and having been posted in East Germany. Riiiight.

[saltpoint]

31. Yep. I imagine Poppy could have given Junior a pointer or two.

Putin is not loveable but he's likely extremely smart.

[MikeNearMcChord]

22. Putin lays down the law, makes him take a time out

And it looks like Shrub, raided Putin's fridge, what is that in front of him?
St Pauli Girl?

[saltpoint]

25. Looks like a beer bottle to me, yes. Whoa. Good catch, MikeNearMcChord.

I thought Dubya was supposed to lay off the sauce...?

[Monk06]

29. Putin pointing to the floor, "No George, your doggy bowl is over here."