{"id":421,"date":"2004-02-10T15:54:33","date_gmt":"2004-02-10T20:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=421"},"modified":"2010-07-11T08:37:06","modified_gmt":"2010-07-11T12:37:06","slug":"thanks-for-the-fruit-and-money-pal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=421","title":{"rendered":"Thanks for the fruit and money, pal"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t know how much of you have been following this – but the missing Russian politician has been found<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rybkin said he was just taking a break. In the Ukraine. Without telling anyone where he was going. Nobody. He vanished.<\/p>\n

Rybkin had this to say for himself:<\/p>\n

“I didn’t disappear anywhere. I bought a newspaper today and was stunned.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Uh … what?<\/p>\n

Even the people working on his campaign had no idea where he went. It was a very suspicious situation. He was a harsh critic of Putin. And then – poof – he disappears. Another member of the Liberal Russia party, of which he was a member, was assassinated last year. So obviously, the situation did not look good. Had Rybkin been wiped out? Had someone killed him?<\/p>\n

Where the hell was he?<\/p>\n

Well, he was hanging out with his friends in Kiev, cell phone turned off.<\/p>\n

Clearly, he is not cut out to be the leader of a massive country like Russia if he can’t understand what the big deal is about his disappearance. He “decided to have a rest from the fuss which has surrounded me”, and took off without a word. Uh – sorry. If you’re the president of Russia you can’t do that.<\/p>\n

He didn’t even tell his wife where he was going. Here’s a quote I love:<\/p>\n

“I left fruit and money for my wife.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If I were his wife, I would take that fruit and I would throw it at his head. Repeatedly. (As though they were pretzels.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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