"The Russian is coming"

Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili has characterized the Russians as 21st century barbarians, but that's not how Vladimir Putin sees it. Putin, a banty-rooster, similar in stature to Napoleon, has a different plan.

Putin was a proud KGB operative when that "American actor" convinced Gorbachev to break up his country. He bit his lip, and vowed to do something about it. He shucked and jived his way to the presidency, and when his term was up, just like Hitler, he convinced the new powerless president to appoint him as prime minister.

Now, he's in position to become Czar Vladimir II, "czar of all the Russians." He eschews democratic reform, and the soviet configuration, but longs for Imperial Russia, with all its pomp and power. If Obama is elected (and he's good at shucking and jiving himself), Vladimir will establish the House of Putin, and crown himself, just as Napoleon did. Then he'll take back all the territory that has usuable natural resources, and Obama will mumble, "Oh, please don't do that," while the UN sits on its thumbs as usual.