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To: JohnM who wrote (30967)	5/28/2002 11:47:04 AM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

On the W as self parody front, I liked Maureen Dowd on Sunday. At the Kremlin signing ceremony on Friday for the arms treaty, before a blindingly gold czarist throne draped in ermine, Mr. Bush hailed the new spirit of trust this way: "That's good. It's good for the people of Russia; it's good for the people of the United States. . . . For decades, Russia and NATO were adversaries. Those days are gone, and that's good. And that's good for the Russian people, it's good for the people of my country, it's good for the people of Europe, and it's good for the people of the world." In other words, it's good. Vladimir Putin, once regarded by the foreign policy nanny Condi Rice as a suspect former K.G.B. chief, is now W.'s beloved Pootie-Poot. nytimes.com At first I thought Dowd made up the "Pootie Poot" thing, but apparently not. George W. Bush may have more nukes than you can shake a stick at, but "Pootie-Poot", the U.S. president's nickname for his Kremlin host Vladimir Putin (news - web sites), has been the one with all the summit one-liners. story.news.yahoo.com