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President Putin Helps to Put Out Wildfires in Russia
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100810/D9HGQB8O0.html ^ | Aug 10, 3:17 PM (ET) | By LYNN BERRY

Posted on 08/10/2010 5:26:17 PM PDT by television is just wrong

MOSCOW (AP) - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin climbed into a firefighting plane Tuesday and dumped water on two of the hundreds of wildfires sweeping through western Russia and cloaking Moscow in a suffocating smog. Putin has been a very visible leader in the battle against the fires, which have caused billions of dollars in damage and left thousands homeless in the past two weeks. He has demanded that soldiers help overstretched firefighting brigades and has walked through smoldering villages, consoling residents and promising them new homes by fall.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: obamanever; putin; realmen; wildfires
more of a man than the usurper obama will ever be.
1 posted on 08/10/2010 5:26:20 PM PDT by television is just wrong
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Meanwhile, Barry's shows his "manliness"...


2 posted on 08/10/2010 5:28:12 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (Obama is the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.)
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3 posted on 08/10/2010 5:34:24 PM PDT by omega4179 (JD Hayworth)
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Putin... gets $#!+ done.


4 posted on 08/10/2010 5:41:41 PM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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Hey Putin, that’s nothing. Ossama bin obama went down to the coast and picked up a tar ball in his bare hands. How’s that for bravery and leadership?


5 posted on 08/10/2010 5:42:21 PM PDT by taillightchaser
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...more of a man than the usurper obama will ever be.

And he is less of a commie than the marxist we currently have taking up shop in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue...

6 posted on 08/10/2010 5:43:27 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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And he is less of a commie than the marxist we currently have taking up shop in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue...

Better pecs, too!

7 posted on 08/10/2010 6:50:14 PM PDT by The Duke
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Putin flies a firefighting plane, Obama had a snowcone on the shores of Alabama.


8 posted on 08/10/2010 7:31:55 PM PDT by al_c (http://www.blowoutcongress.com)
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exactly, thats what I’m talking about.


9 posted on 08/10/2010 7:43:41 PM PDT by television is just wrong
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A real leader with cajones? We can only dream, for now.


10 posted on 08/10/2010 11:03:22 PM PDT by GnuHere
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we have to vote smarter in 2012. that is provided the dems don’t screw up the primaries for us again through the press.


11 posted on 08/11/2010 5:41:37 AM PDT by television is just wrong
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