Our President's God-Given Insights

Soul to Soul Born Again Style

Apparently our President feels more comfortable analyzing souls than winding down unnecessary wars.

In 2001, God gave him the opportunity to look into another man's soul, a fringe benefit of borning the second time, I think. Russian President Vladimir Putin was the willing patient and Bush proclaimed his vision that Putin's soul was true.

Spurred by his Presidential canonization, Putin decided to show the world his spiritual side.

First President Putin apparently decided that reform in the Ukraine, a former USSR state, could be postponed by poisoning the populist presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko. Riots ensued, but that's why Putin and Bush have security teams, right?

Then local billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky got under Putin's skin. Deep pocketed reformers can be such a threat. So Putin had him arrested for tax evasion. Putin seized control of Khodorkovsky's gas and oil company, Yukos, and (re)nationalized it by selling it off to politically safe allies for "back taxes."

Yukos tried to keep Putin at bay with a US Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, but Yukos US assets were in Texas and Bush's Texas judges and the afterglow of Bush's soul searching killed that effort aborning.

So as Khodorkovsky's Yukos is whittled away for taxes, what possible benefit would Putin enjoy by imprisoning a reformer and confiscating his company? Maybe enriching his retirement? As his term limited Presidency ends, Putin may want to become Gazprom's CEO, giving him control of the largest energy company in Russia.

Remember how Gazprom (theoretically a private, capitalist company) shut down natural gas to the Ukraine (Yushchenko's Ukraine) last winter when the temperatures were at their lowest and Putin's leverage was at its highest? This guy really plays for keeps, take no prisoners style.

Wonder if our insightful President saw that ploy in Putin's soul?

Putin seems to tolerate criticism as well as former Russian Premier Josef Stalin. In August 2006, journalist Anna Politkovskaya, a prolific and vocal Putin critic, was gunned down and murdered in front of her apartment. The ever compassionate Putin pointed out that although her influence was widely known by Western human rights organizations, "her influence in political life in Russia was very minor."

Geez, wonder why such a pure soul would say something like that. I mean, she only documented his support of murder, rape and torture.

Which brings us to Putin's most recent exploit. Former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko has been poisoned in London. Before dying today he said he was killed under orders of President Putin. Maybe Litvinenko just couldn't see Putin's soul from Bush's lofty spiritual plateau.

I guess our born-again President has soulful insights we one-time birthers lack.

I got no glimpse of Putin's soul, but if Bush deems it true and pure it explains alot about his analytical capabilities. Remember "Mission Accomplished"?