Maybe Biden should have GW talk to his BFF, Vlad (“the Impaler”*) Putin.
Recall when George W. Bush was so chummy with Putin? At the time, few of us realized what a disaster George was as president. He and the whole ‘Bush clan’ have revealed themselves to be as much a ’tool’ of the Deep State as the ‘conqueror of Corn Pop’!
It turns out that it appears that “President Joey” is a bigger friend of “Pootie-Poot’s” than GW (“Sure, we’ll continue to buy “Pootie-Poot-Poot’s oil. The real threat is “climate change”; America shouldn’t be ‘energy independent’. That’s Sooo ‘Donald Trump’ !!)
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At The Guardian:
Bush’s love of Pootie-Poot Putin
Julian Borger in Washington Sun 19 May 2002
At a historic summit in Moscow this week (May 20 thru 25, 2002), President George Bush will mark what he claims is the final putting to rest of the cold war, by shaking hands with his new best friend, Pootie-Poot.
That, according to today’s issue of Time magazine, is the president’s nickname for the Russian president, Vladimir Putin. At times of tension between the two countries, we are told, Mr Bush is known to tell his staff: “Get me Pootie-Poot on the phone.”
MORE FROM THE UK GUARDIAN’S 2002 PIECE ON GW BUSH’S AFFECTION FOR VLADAMIR PUTIN:
Since his days as head cheerleader at a private academy in Andover, Mr Bush has prided himself on his bonhomie, which relies heavily on the use of nicknames.
He refers to his political adviser, Karl Rove, as “Boy Genius” and, as Texas governor, introduced a forest service official as “Tree Man”.Advertisement
More from the 2002 article in the UK Guardian:
The nicknames have helped build his “regular guy” image, but Pootie-Poot sounds more like a throwback to the preppy vocabulary of his father, who was famous for such phrases as “I’m in deep doo-doo”.
A presidential nickname is considered a badge of honour among members of Congress and journalists. It suggests you have reached the inner circle.
Mr Putin seems to have worked hard to earn his sobriquet, researching the US president’s quirks before their first meeting in Slovenia in June.
The US national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, hailed the relationship between the two men as epoch-making.
“To see the kind of relationship that presidents Bush and Putin have developed and to see Russia firmly anchored in the west,” she said, “that’s really a dream of 300 years, not just of the post-cold war era”.
Time magazine quoted a former Putin aide as saying the Russian leader “devoured an enormous amount of information on Bush and everything related to him”.
It seemed to work. Before the Ljubljana encounter, the Bush administration dismissed Mr Putin as a Soviet throwback, but afterwards Mr Bush claimed: “I looked the man in the eye. I was able to get a sense of his soul.”
Before this week’s summit, Mr Bush is apparently doing a bit more research on the Russian soul.
Ms Rice has reportedly given him a reading list including Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment.
The message underlying the advice is unclear. Perhaps the guilt-ridden axe-murderer of the novel is supposed to be post-Soviet Pootie-Poot in deep doo-doo.
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An ‘aside’ ; why we prefer to know Putin as “Vlad the Impaler”:
• Vlad III, commonly known as Vlad the Impaler or Vlad Dracula, was Voivode of Wallachia three times between 1448 and his death in 1476/77. He is often considered one of the most important rulers in Wallachian history and a national hero of Romania. Wikipedia
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In Russia, popular stories suggested that Vlad was able to strengthen his central government only through applying brutal punishments, and a similar view was adopted by most Romanian historians in the 19th century. Vlad’s patronymic inspired the name of Bram Stoker’s literary vampire, Count Dracula.
