Smile! You're in Politics

Presidents have a sense of humor. Voters usually don't.

Here are a few shots that prove that politics can be hilarious (besides the obvious pleasure of taking down your opponents and having an evil laugh in the washroom after a successful speech).

Bush is really very cute:


(images credit: Solnyffka)








(photo by AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)






Politics vs. Real Life

Some of us often have no clue what the politicians are talking about:



In the meantime the world keeps on offering its own political commentary:







Presidents can rest easy. Arnold can fix anything:



How can you help? By keeping mum:



Conserving materials is always a good idea:



Very misguided political move:



You know, beer is really a Global Pacifier of Nations:



Money is an entirely different matter:



Here is a very upbeat picture of the French President:




Fun and Games in the Communist Block

We'll start with a perennial mystery:



Fidel Castro in Bratsk, Siberia, in the 60s -




(image credit: Andrey "FeliksSpb")

Castro is indescribably Cool -


(image credit: Solnyffka)

He also got a present from Soviets: very rare custom wagon GAZ-14 limo -


(image credit: ruskii-cherni)

Youngish-looking Leonid Brezhnev in 1963, again in Bratsk:


(image credit: Andrey "FeliksSpb")


Some see Medvedev, we see "Medved-ized" Putin:


(photo by Dmitry Lovetski)




(images credit: AP Photo, Dmitry Astakhov)

Without doubt, Putin is still a crucial figure in Russian politics:













And then again, Russian court games always go in cycles:






Various Other Players

Caught in paroxysms of thought and deliberation:


(photo by AP/Fritz Reiss)






(photo by Vasily Shaposhnikov/Kommersant)

Watch what you say in Italian Parliament:



... or in South Korean Parliament, too:


(photo by Yonhap, Han Sang-kun)

That guy must be hiding something different behind his communist newspaper:



Boring speeches -



The weirdest Russian politician Vladimir Zhirinovski is no stranger to presenting an off-beat image:
(all we can say is, this face is not to be trusted)




(images credit: Solnyffka)

His idea of Russia can be pretty much summarized by this picture:


(image credit: Arkady Shaikhet)

So after all this sinister/hilarious overture, we should really finish on a positive note:

All is well in the world! -


(image credit: Reiters/RIA Novosti/Vladimir Rodionov)

Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich seem to agree:

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