Best leader of our time.

**master of the puppets** · 03-15-2006, 17:14

Ok, so we've seen the posts, we've read the threads, and we have trash talked just about every world leader of a major country. bush is an idiot, blairs a whimp, chivec is a jerk, ahmadinejad is a phsyco, and north korea is to obvious to state.

so then in your opinion, who is the greatest national leader in 2006. will he be chinese, or nordic, or other, you decide.

**Banquo's Ghost** · 03-15-2006, 17:18

Originally Posted by master of the puppets

so then in your opinion, who is the greatest national leader in 2006. will he be chinese, or nordic, or other, you decide.

Happy to play, but I need some clear definition of parameters first. Greatest by what criteria?

**master of the puppets** · 03-15-2006, 17:26

one who has won the love of his populace by bringing his country massive profits, or lifting the status of living in his country. he who has brought his country into a better light as viewed by the rest of the world.

**Louis VI the Fat** · 03-15-2006, 17:56

Angela Merkel's start has been promising.

Of the leaders of other major countries, Blair is the only one who isn't a complete and utter joke.

**Sjakihata** · 03-15-2006, 18:05

Arguably Viktor Jushenko (sp), although I hear corruption is ripe once again.

**Proletariat** · 03-15-2006, 18:08

Originally Posted by Sjakihata

Arguably Viktor Jushenko (sp), although I hear corruption is ripe once again.

I'd go for Viktor too, even if the Westernization of his country seems to be trading one mafia for another.

**Banquo's Ghost** · 03-16-2006, 11:55

Originally Posted by master of the puppets

one who has won the love of his populace by bringing his country massive profits, or lifting the status of living in his country. he who has brought his country into a better light as viewed by the rest of the world.

Well, in these terms, Wen Jiabao, Premier of China, will be hard to beat in 2006.

**JAG** · 03-16-2006, 14:16

Hugo Chavez.

There are very few other world leaders who have successfully brought such joy, happiness, prosperity and justice to as many people as him. Every person should not only respect what he has and is doing for his people, but do exactly the same for their own nations.

**Tachikaze** · 03-16-2006, 15:58

Originally Posted by JAG

Hugo Chavez.

There are very few other world leaders who have successfully brought such joy, happiness, prosperity and justice to as many people as him. Every person should not only respect what he has and is doing for his people, but do exactly the same for their own nations.

If you can find some balanced articles about him on the Internet, please pass on the links. It's hard for me to find good information. The news here is so slanted or incomplete. While some of our news agencies don't treat him as a wacko, they spend more words on the controversies than the substance of the man and his policies.

I hope you're right about him.