Hey Dave, I'm with Greg. We have too much on the plate, and in my opinion, a weak President to boot.

Putin has an image problem. Ever since President GW Bush (who had a habit of calling people by nicknames) started calling him "Pootie-Poot", he's been on a PR campaign to show the rest of the world that he is a "manly man" by releasing photo's of him shirtless and engaging in macho type activities. The phoniness shows as he neglects to do his real job. The American media eats it up. At least he's not a Saddam or a Stalin.