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TODAY'S STORIES
13.05.2008
Obama Brings Sexy Back

... as a quality others wish for in their own leaders. From the Times:

Dmitri A. Medvedev has been Russia’s president for only a week, and has already become the object of online sexual adulation. “I have dreams about you at night,” says a busty brunette, flanked by a photo of Mr. Medvedev. “I want to have your children.”

The video, a humorous, if amateurish, Russian adaptation of “I Got a Crush on Obama,” has been making its way through the Russian blogosphere in the weeks since Mr. Medvedev won a landslide electoral victory with much help from his predecessor and longtime mentor, Vladimir V. Putin.

Here's the vid.

--Eve Fairbank

Posted: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 5:44 PM with 2 comment(s)

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liberal reformer said:

With much help, indeed, Eve. The world would not have any idea who Dmitri Medvedev is if V. Putin hadn't plucked him from obscurity. Incidentally, that patronym reminds me of two who were among my favorite dissidents thirty - odd years ago: Zhores and Roy Medvedev, the brothers, the first, a biologist, the latter, a historian. No relation, I assume.

May 13, 2008 6:35 PM

JEFF FREY said:

I'm all in favor of busty brunettes having crushes on well-educated, seemingly mild-mannered, middle-aged men!

May 14, 2008 1:00 AM