Confessions of a Misguided Trio

The kiss heard around the world...

So by now I am sure most of you have seen Russian Presidents Vladimir Putin's interesting, somewhat disturbing display of affection towards a little boy. If not click on the embed below...



It appears as though the kiss caused such controversy that when Putin's PR folks organised a webcast for their boss to give him 'a chance to explain his policies to a Western audience,' the quest for an eplanation of the kiss from Putin 'Shot almost to the top of a list of more than 162,000 questions sent into www.yandex.ru ,which co-hosted the event.' According to The Weekend Australian (borrowing the story from The Times, and Reuters)

Putin's response you ask? (In my view more disturbing than the actual kiss)
"People came up and I began talking to them, among them this little boy. He seemed to me very independant, sure of himself and at the same time defenceless, so to speak, an innocent boy and a very nice little boy. I tell you honestly, I just wanted to stroke him like a kitten and it came out in this gesture. There is nothing behind."

WHAT THE HELL? He thought the kid was a CAT? Ok.... I feel safer...

As mentioned by Carla, Putin is about to host the G8 summit in St Petersberg... I wonder if we are going to see a bit more raw emotion from the chosen ones when it comes time for their announcements of... well whatever they will say to appease the masses...

A focus on disease? Well given the proccess the G8 made on debt relief and the problems of Africa, the 4.1 million people who were diagnosed HIV postive in 2005 must truly be relieved*...

*denotes sarcasm, if you didn't catch on...

posted by Mark @ 5:33 PM