posted December 29, 2013 01:26 PM
I don't think you read the letter. But the conservatives' new interest in making Putin look good is pathetic. And comparing Obama to him just shows the ignorance, folks. You should maybe ask the ladies from Puss y Riot about how much freedom they have in Russia. Suffice to say this site would be blocked and Randall might even be in prison for talking about Putin the way you lot talk about Obama. You don't know what a dictator is.Here is the actual letter from "Putin" which, surprise, is not from Putin at all, like breitbart.com's other letters from Putin. Some interesting passages nonetheless.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/12/27/New-year-decadent-Americans
So that’s why I let Mikhail Khodorkovsky go free after a decade in prison—he’s a Jew; releasing him removes a sticking point to better relations with the Jews. And that’s fine, so long as they are outside of Russia. Khodorkovsky’s not coming back, that’s for sure; the $15 billion fortune he once had inside Russia has long ago been divvied up among my friends. ...
Needless to say, I have never been a fan of “people power”; we know what sort of trouble it can lead to if left unchecked. Critics say we did something nasty in Ukraine; I say, we bought President Viktor Yanukovych fair and square. And he had the honor—and, heh heh, the survival instinct—to stay bought. ...
Admittedly, I have had to make detours along the way: The Sochi Winter Olympics are coming up in February, and so I released those horrible “Puss y Riot” protestors. In addition, I turned loose some Greenpeace idiots.
Oh and a lot of stuff about how important Christianity is to successful governance of a people