i’ll argue with anyone about government. columbian, cuban, russian, french. but most of all, american government… it’s painfully apparent to anyone with half a brain that the government of the united states is far from a democracy. the american government, compared to a parliamentary democracy, is quite fascist.

let’s toss aside those intellectual pursuits for just a moment. i’ve recently found and archived the following two photos of our fearless leader with the russian president vladimir putin:

this photo is merely amusing. we’ve all had our fights with an uncooperating umbrella. i do like how the first lady is walking ahead, almost as if she is ashamed of her bumbling husband. i liken it to a dagwood comic.

this one, however, fosters quite a few more words. notice how bush seems to be fumbling with his ring. sure, they could have been talking about marriage and family devotion. i, however, like to think that putin is scolding him for any one of wide variety of reasons.

the fact that bush may run into world leaders that don’t roll over and show their bellies is a bit refreshing as of late. i like seeing bush directly confronted by a leader with some serious cohones. at least someone is slapping him around in intellectual government circles.