Sunday, July 18, 2010

Tiger Woods, Steve Jobs, and three Presidents

As I have been browsing the news, two people caught my attention...

The first one was Tiger Woods... it is amazing how people are so much more interested in his affair than pretty much anything else about him.  C'mon guys, there's life out there besides his.

Bill Clinton playing saxThis reminds me of Clinton-Lewinski scandal back in 1998.  You know what what the most important news about it in Russia? That "their" (the US) president "still CAN"! Then-President Clinton's informal "approval ratings" went through the roof, and the popular sentiment was that such incident deserved decoration, rather than impeachment. You see, those were not the best of Yeltsin's years...  And pictures of Clinton with a sax evoked only one association. (Curiously, this particular saxophone was a present from Boris Yeltsin, back in 1994)


Well, whether it was President Yeltsin's perceived (not only political) impotence, or the consequences of a devastating financial crisis that hit the country later that same year...  but in 1999 Russia met a new President-to-be.

Vladimir Putin - judo


Vladimir Putin flying a bomber


С Председателем Правительства Владимиром Путиным на горнолыжном курорте «Красная Поляна».

(the source of the three photos above: www.kremlin.ru)

Now, that was a guy to have a crush on!

 

What does the omni-present, omni-potent, eternal Steve Jobs have to do with this?  Well... other than that both look better in turtle-necks than they do in suits,  other than the fact that both always have a "it's your own fault"- style response ready...  Other than...

Anyway, take a look at these:


Steve Jobs and Bill Gates

 (source: wikimedia common, more info here)

С Председателем Правительства Владимиром Путиным.

(source: www.kremlin.ru)

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