I really don’t know how to respond to this.
Putin kissed boy ‘like a kitten’
MOSCOW, Russia (Reuters) — Vladimir Putin’s decision to stop a small boy as he walked through the Kremlin and kiss his stomach was prompted by a desire to “touch him like a kitten,” the Russian president said on Thursday.
The five-year-old boy, identified as Nikita Konkin by the press, was clearly stunned by the kiss and speculation over Putin’s motivation has run wild in the week since it happened.
Curious Internet users propelled the issue to the top of a list of questions put to Putin in an interactive Web cast.
“People came up and I began talking to them, among them this little boy. He seemed to me very independent, sure of himself and at the same time defenseless so to speak, an innocent boy and a very nice little boy,” Putin told the Web cast.
“I tell you honestly, I just wanted to touch him like a kitten and that desire of mine ended in that act.”
The Izvestia daily, which tracked down Nikita, discovered that he had refused to wash after that kiss.
“I just liked him and he liked me very much. I want to be president myself,” the five-year-old told the paper.
Putin was shown by state television chatting to graduates of military academies before he took a walk through one of the Kremlin’s courtyards, often full of tourists.
He stopped and spoke to Nikita who turned away shyly. “What is your name?” Putin asked, kneeling down in front of the fair-haired boy and holding him by the waist.
“Nikita,” the clearly shocked boy answered, looking from side to side.
Putin then lifted the boy’s shirt and kissed him on his stomach. The Russian president then patted the boy on the head and walked off through a crowd of astonished tourists.
I need a new category for ‘this is just weird’.
h/t Publius Rendezvous who h/t’s Slobokan’s who says it’s Off Putin. HA!
At the Zoo has a picture of the kiss - eeeewwwwww….
He does this to cats? That just might be even sicker.
LOL - isn’t it though!
I just keep thinking ewwwwwwwwwwww
I say “no big deal.” He’s a cute little five year old. Aren’r politicians suppose to kiss babies?
I could see a kiss on the cheek or the forehead, but on the stomach? There is just something creepy about that. (Or maybe we have become so suspicious here with all the child molesters in the news all the time.)
That is an action of a deeply troubled man…
Pat the kid on the head?? OK…
Shake his hand?? Cool..
Take him in your hands and KISS his belly?? That’s just SICK…
It’s kinda weird for sure.
Vladimir Putin likes Boys and Kitties…
On July 6, 2006, Russian President Vladimir Putin lifted the shirt of a little boy to kiss his stomach. “I felt an urge to squeeze himâ€Â. Russia is known for perverseness but Friggan-A, that’s just sick. Putin must have some mental issues….
Wow. You’re right… I’m totally speechless.
And I just threw up a little.
Don’t you all know, Putin is the anti-christ. Check out http://www.revelation13.net to see the bible prophecy. By the way, I’m not mentally ill.
You are all sad, pathetic people. Paranoid as well. You’ve lost your sense of humanity. Everything, everything, everything has a perverse sexual connotation. Why? Because American society has become paranoid and perverse. Smoking dope, pornography, cocaine, prescription medications like zolofoft, prozac, amphetamines like addoral - all acceptable. You have no community, you are dumbing down and concerned with crap like jaylo, paris hilton, etc. You are mad, mad, sad people who take a moment of tenderness and affection and turn it into perversion. Shame on you all.
Friggan A - me thinks you have mental issues!
Bob - it is what it is. I didn’t say it was perverted - I just said it was weird. But hey, to each his own.
I agree that the liberals are ruining our country with their obsessions with drugs, devaluing community and family, political correctness to the extreme that is destroying our schools and leaving kids with only air-headed ’stars’ as heros.
It’s very sad indeed.
No Beth. If you want to see sad… look in the mirror. That you are choosing to find blame in “the liberals” shows just how bigoted you are. And it is bigots like you who can take equal blame in ruining this country.
And by the way Beth, it is not weird. It is beautiful. An act of tenderness and caring is not weird. It is “weird” that you have lost your humanity and no longer can see it as an act of tenderness, of caring, of affection. Your loss of seeing something beautiful is “weird.”
Wow Bob. You sure have called me a lot of names in 3 short comments.
I thought I was agreeing with you. You said the country was going down the tubes because of it’s ‘dumbing down’ and hero-like status of silly celebrities and smoking dope and the like.
The democratic party is the party that insist on quotas, political correctness to the point that we aren’t even supposed to grade children in school for fear it might hurt their little feelings if Sally isn’t doing as well as John. It’s the party of low to no expections and heaven help us if anyone is expected to take personal responsibilty.
Those things and more are what lead to the problems that you mention in your comments.
See, we are in complete agreement.
Beth, as for the names I’ve called you I can only say - if the cap fits!!!
Plus, don’t get me started on education. Go and read about this government and how much money they have taken out of education programs. They have killed off so much funding it is enough to make one want to vomit. Beth, I’m afraid you need to remove your head from your … and read!!! (Oh and THINK, beth. Try use your brain!!!!!).
Beth, before you talk about Democrats and education - some facts: In his fiscal budget for the federal 2006-2007 year that commences on October 1, 2006, President Bush proposes to end 42 US Department of Education programs and significantly reduce spending for four other Education programs, for total budget cuts of $4.279 billion.
i agree with bob there people these days have gotten so up their own @$$ they can’t judge for themselves anymore they have been completly brainwashed by “society” as for the earlier comment about child molestors it’s getting to the point you can’t take pictures of your own child in the buff so one day they can look at it when their older and laugh years ago you used to be able to have a conversation with neighbours kids without being called a perv or whatever else and now….well don’t get me started on now i think it’s completly disgusting i grew up with boys younger then i was played /touched(and for those who think i mean in a sexual way GO WASH YOUR MOUTH OUT!) boy’s i grew up with loved me and i loved them no relation to each other but pure friendship fact did you know more kids get abused off their own relatives/parents then they do from child molestors and the like? so take that into account aswell theres thousands (yes thousands) of children in the UK alone being abused by their own families be it sexual or not!