>>>>The idea that this impression of Putin is somehow 'right-wing' is in itself amusing, given that he represents what could arguably be called Russia's 'right-wing'.
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>>>I'm sure they are extending the presidential terms from 4 years to 6 simply because they love democracy. :o)
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>>And if that works out, they could move toward *real* modern democracy with a President for Life.
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>Some presidents do deserve life.
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>Death penalty is somehow too much and too easy.
I think historically most people who've acheived election as "President for Life" only received one vote - which was 100% of those cast ;-)
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
