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    Speaker of Truth Senior Member Moros's Avatar
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    Voted Gordon Brown as he's the least threat for mankind of all those in the list.
    Next would be Sarkozy I guess. It gets ugly after that.

    I didn't vote for Ban, as he clearly isn't a world leader, he's more of a symbol. And symbols don't rule, they get abused.
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    Hu is doing the best job. Tee hee hee

    Again, you can have confidence in someone for good or bad. Tribesman has confidence that Bush will bungle things up when given simple tasks. Bush is one of the more reliable on the list in that his answers will do nothing in the short term to resolve problems or put peoples fears at ease. He has shown himself to be an inept communicator.

    I trust that Hu Jintao commands his country and is directing the communist party to a brighter future (at the expense of everyone else on the planet). If I was one of the people that he served I would have the utmost confidence in him. He is a despot over his people, but if you believe in the intangible "China" over personal freedom for the everyman, he is a very competant leader. I

    I don't, so he is the enemy.

    Putin also tops the list. These two men are dangerous and not to be trusted in a positive way, but instead elicit a feeling that they know what they want and how to get it. I would vote a Brown, Bush, Clinton (bill), Obama, Carter, etc over those 2 men

    Sarkozy has been doing a fine job since he put the drama behind him and so has Merkel, but the rest of the leaders of the west need to be dragged outside and blasted; The left for being terrible and the right for being lost morons.

    Brown is a powerfully overated idiot and Bush has failed to unify or lead his people beyond his first 2 years in office. Parliament and Congress are full of visionless windbags with deep pockets and self destructive tendencies.

    Democracy is being brought to the ICU.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TuffStuffMcGruff View Post
    Hu is doing the best job. Tee hee hee
    Interesting perspective, I suppose you could argue that he is the only one on the list who has actually made his country better (or at least richer) rather than worse, whereas the others have all had better starting points and made things worse.


    Brown is a powerfully overated idiot
    Overrated by whom? I was under the impression that he is more or less universally regarded as a moron. Though I guess you could argue even that is to give him too much credit.

    Democracy is being brought to the ICU.
    Apologies for my ignorance, what is the "ICU"? Is it a Backroom-repeatable term?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Poor Bloody Infantry View Post

    Apologies for my ignorance, what is the "ICU"? Is it a Backroom-repeatable term?
    Intensive care unit. Sorry. I just meant that it isn't on its deathbed, but it could be if people don't get their houses in order.

    Also - I meant "hu" as in "who". The question answered itself. Teeheehee
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    Autocrats are popular because they always seem charismatic regardless what they do and when they achive results it looks well - full power, full responsibility in the eyes of the world.

    Democratic leaders have to deal with far more things - political animosities, human rights, strikes, democratic tradition - rarely seem in controll and are always criticised.



    I voted for Gah !


    I couldn't choose most of the proposed leaders e.g. Putin - I think he will do more harm than good in the long run.

    I might chose Sarkozy, but for now it is just too early and some results are necessary.

    I liked and respected Blair (though he staid for too long in office), but Brown - really nothing, almost as if he wasn't there at all. Bush became a living disaster.

    From European leaders only some can be called world leaders and from those for now only Merkel and Sarkozy can be seen as people with some vision - results will come, for good or ill, but we have to wait.

    There is a number of local leaders for sure, but without so much influence - Zapatero ( I really don't like this man - he is a fraud to me, I cannot simply trust this man at all), Berlusconi (a nightmare, an EU jester), Yuschenko (intersting, but in never ending conflict with Yulia Timoshenko - she might be an interesting leader in the future, though) and Tusk (too early to tell much, but promising and I cannot really complain).

    From other continents I am thinking that Brasil will become one of the new leaders, much thanks to their current president.


    For now Gah ! IN next five years, who knows - I think it might be a hard decision because a number of new democratic leaders show much promise.

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    I there ever was a world leader called 'Gah', how could you not vote for him?

    It would be even better if he had the exclamation mark at the end of his name...
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    Aaaaanyway... Has anyone else noticed that Putin isn't a president anymore?
    Still maintain that crying on the pitch should warrant a 3 match ban

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    Quote Originally Posted by Caledonian Rhyfelwyr View Post
    I there ever was a world leader called 'Gah', how could you not vote for him?

    It would be even better if he had the exclamation mark at the end of his name...
    That would be good, kind of like a human version of Westward Ho!, the only place name in the world with an exclamation mark.

    I guess the strong showing for Gah! thus far is not that surprising, pretty much reproducing the real poll in fact, as well as the strong showing for Putin thus far.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Moros View Post
    Voted Gordon Brown as he's the least threat for mankind of all those in the list.
    Heh. Sadly, that's a valid point, Moros.


    That being said, however, I still had to vote "Gah!". Brown comes across as almost a big an idiot as Bush, which of course is no small feat. And I simply cannot bring myself to vote for a moron, no matter how benign s/he may be.
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