"W" Nation: America needs Thorazine!

[scisyhp]

It’s hard to feel sorry for a man as bloodless, cunning and short as Russian President Vladimir Putin. But put yourself in his shoes. Last weekend, the sober Russian leader was cornered into spending a 48-hour pow-wow with recovering cokefiend George W. Bush in some hokey mid-Atlantic campsite called Camp David. But this wasn’t the Bush Putin had known before, the dim, confident, vaguely chummy president whose success and power kept growing, no matter how badly his policies worked. Indeed it made rational people start to wonder if they were the crazy ones, if reality had started to invert.

And then last week, the impervious Bush edifice suddenly crashed before everyone’s eyes. No, it’s not you who’s nuts. Not Putin, not Chirac, not Schroeder. It’s Bush’s America, this “W Nation,” that has gone truly crazy.

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http://www.exile.ru/175/175010100.html

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. God we are the

laughing stock of the world

[tom_paine]

2. Yep. Hated, feared and our slavish, befuddled citizenry laughed at

Like we used to laugh at the pathetic Soviets, saddled with a Lying Pravda and a moribund, corrupt government that liedliedLIED at will and with no challenge.

Shoe's on the other foot now, no matter what governments others labor under.

We are now snowballing toward full Soviet-ness (with a Free-Market flair, of course).

The rest of the world knows it. The hate and fear directed (with cause) at us is bad enough. But to know that the rest of the world sees us as we saw the dopey Soviets...well that's got to have some Founding Fathers spinning in their graves.