World Leaders

Once I admired Blair and also Castro, Lula, Putin and others but they deceived me.

From the list I vote for Zapatero but would like to add some names: Dalai-Lama, Mandela, Clinton.

We are doomed is too easy a cop-out for an otherwise extremely interesting poll!!!

Bravo Martin!!

I went with Zapatero! He is still too new to really be judged , but I think he will also stink like they all do after two or three years! But he is not there yet. I also admire the Brazilian Da Silva, so far!!

As an aside , I cannot help myself having a bit of admiration for Castro holding back the US for the last 50 years after his country being completely broke and having his army parading on bike to save up the fuel! Environemental friendly armies - a new concept!!

I still have a lot of sympathy for Hugo Chavez, as he is still trying to help out his country when both the US and the Oligarchy and big industrial bosses are sabotageing the venezuelian econmy.

Qaddaffi is ageing fairly well for an old terrorist! He is becoming a sort of wise-man, much listened to in African circles! Still would not invite him over for dinner!!

Puttin is a modern Tsar, but is it possible to rule Russia any other way?

Among those I hate: Berlusconi (money is only motive), Chirac (the man has moments of brilliance but he is crooked as hell), Bush (no explications necessary), the Korean b*****d Kim Jong Ill, but the Japanese Prime is also a bit of an asshole as he is clearly in favor of re-writing the history books saying Japan was right in WWII.

I actually had Blair in esteem, until he decided to suck up to Bush for the Irak thing. He is going to pay the price for that and his lies in the next elections!!

Okay a wide range of politicians to choose from ... I just wanted to see if there were any leaders around the world actually admired by people on this site ...

NOTE: In China, I've put the Wen/Hu President/Prime Minister duo as a team and for Germany, I've put Shroeder because his successor cannot be judged yet ...