Oh yeah, I'll answer. Sure, I'd swap in a heartbeat. Anyway, I wouldn't call Putin a socialist. I'd call Putin a nationalist (for Russia), because I don't see him redistributing wealth with money printed out of thin air and tearing down everything productive in his country to elevate (and pander to) the non-productive. Real socialists would be Obama and (before he croaked) Hugo Chavez. That's gonna work just as well here as it does in Venezuela, but it makes these guys popular with ignorant voters and it gets them re-elected.

I've come to believe that the election and re-election of Barack Hussein Obama is the worst disaster that's ever befallen the U.S. Worse than the Civil War, worse than Washington D.C. being burned by the British in 1812, worse than the assassinations of Lincoln and Kennedy and the death in office of FDR, worse than Pearl Harbor, worse than losing the Vietnam War, and worse than even the Carter administration.

I don't think we can ever recover from the damage Obama and his thugs have caused, and I think they've done it out of pure hatred for everything America used to stand for.

Putin, on the other hand, is a patriot - for Russia. It's too bad we don't have a president who'd stand up in front of Congress and say exactly what Putin supposedly said to his parliament, 'cause that's what needs saying.