The Eyes Have It / why sudden silence?

[Jim Baldauf]

Wayne viewed the spectacle at Crawford:

>Putin looked like any good CEO...poised, alert ... clearly very smart.
Putin's eyes taking in everything, everything. ... Putin is such a nice man,
such a nice smile, such quick eyes.<

You'd smile too if you were Vladimir Putin about to, ahem, "negotiate"
strategic issues with Junior. Or if you were about to play, say, a game of
chess or dominos or even jacks with the lad. You'd smile as you did after
your first meeting with the new American president, when you still had "the
KGB stare." (As you knew your own peaceniks in the Kremlin called it!)
"The eyes are the windows to the soul," a poet had written. Yet the little
Bushki said he had looked deep into your soul and "saw goodness." The
psychiatrists had been right, with the idiot Texan you could do as it's
called,
"kick-back," smile, and let the eyes to be twinkling. (Not "darting" they
had
warned, "twinkling.") Twinkling, darting, whatever! Perhaps you would even
take their advice and, late at night on the ranch, meet up in the kitchen,
sit
down at the breakfast table, and let your new compassionate compadre
"teach" you to play the card game of  his state, Texas Hold Them Pokers.
Manos a manos!
No limit!

jb

----- Original Message -----
From: Wayne Johnson <cadaobh2@brgnet.com>
To: <meadow@austin.rr.com>; <frances_morey@excite.com>
Cc: telebob x <telebob98@hotmail.com>; <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 6:52 AM
Subject: RE: why sudden silence?


>
> So there I was, watching.  And there they were, Presidents Putin and
Bushki,
> smiling and hamming it up in the Crawford, Texas High School gymnasium.
> Lots of shots of smiling, fresh and innocent faces.  Bushki leaning on the
> pulpit, tanned, waving his arm at his new "friend".  I thought to myself,
> why shouldn't he like Putin, afterall, Putin was the former head of the
KGB,
> so Bushki's gonna naturally warm up to this guy, given his old Dad's job
> history.   Putin looked like any good CEO...poised, alert, ready for a
quick
> witted, clearly very smart.  Putin's eyes taking in everything,
everything.
> What a day for good relations!  What a day for wives!  The two Presidents
of
> the two (of three) most powerful nations in the world putting on this
happy
> little show.  Bob, I'll tell you, it made me feel so good.  All the right
> buttons were pushed.  Glasnost and re-kindling of old allies...is this
good
> theater or what?
>
> Oh, Russian oil production is equal to that of Saudi Arabia.  Seems OPEC
is
> a little miffed at Russia over the price of oil right now.
>
> Surely.  Surely, there is NO relationship of any kind between the Russian
> President's quick-to-call Bushki actions of 9/11/01 and the desire to
> develop good oil relationships with the US.  No, that would be too
cynical.
> Putin is such a nice man, such a nice smile, such quick eyes.
>
> W
>
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