Putin Merkel Edge Obama in 2015To A New Low Power Rankingj

[wyouser]

According to Forbes Magazine, President Obama has become the first sitting US President to fall out of the top 2 power rankings. The list ranks 72 power brokers from the world's 7.3 billion people. At number one is Vladimir Putin, followed by Angela Merkel at number 2. Obama makes the # 3 spot followed by Pope Francis at # 4. (for those of you following the 2016 presidential candidates, Clinton holds spot 58 and Trump holds spot 72) news.yahoo.com/putin-merkel-edge-obama-low-power-ranking  What do you think?

[billisonboard]

wow

[djAdvocate]

considering how much of an asshole Putin is, i would not aspire to that position.

[billisonboard]

To compile the list, we considered ...

Next we assessed ...

Then we determined ...

Lastly, we made sure ...

To calculate the final rankings, a panel of Forbes editors ranked all of our candidates ...

www.forbes.com/sites/davidewalt/2015/11/04/the-worlds-most-powerful-people-2015/

There is no indication of who "we are" nor exactly who this panel of Forbes editors is.

[wyouser]

Nov 4, 2015 16:26:14 GMT -5 billisonboard said:

To compile the list, we considered ...

Next we assessed ...

Then we determined ...

Lastly, we made sure ...

To calculate the final rankings, a panel of Forbes editors ranked all of our candidates ...

www.forbes.com/sites/davidewalt/2015/11/04/the-worlds-most-powerful-people-2015/

There is no indication of who "we are" nor exactly who this panel of Forbes editors is.

But don't you rest more securely at night knowing the list was compiled by "We" rather than...gasp..."they"?

[djAdvocate]

when was the last time Forbes had anything good to say about Obama?

[wyouser]

Nov 4, 2015 16:17:42 GMT -5 djAdvocate said:

considering how much of an asshole Putin is, i would not aspire to that position.

And, that asshole has an 87% positive rating from his folks at home.  (Bill's, do you wonder who does the calculations for Mr Putin?  Wonder if there might be that word "we" used by folks calculating hi numbers over there?)

[wyouser]

Nov 4, 2015 16:43:38 GMT -5 djAdvocate said:

when was the last time Forbes had anything good to say about Obama?

Still, Obama ranks higher than Hillary. For that matter Obama gets a ranking higher than Trump too!

[djAdvocate]

Nov 4, 2015 16:46:41 GMT -5 wyouser said:

Nov 4, 2015 16:17:42 GMT -5 djAdvocate said:

considering how much of an asshole Putin is, i would not aspire to that position.

And, that asshole has an 87% positive rating from his folks at home.  (Bill's, do you wonder who does the calculations for Mr Putin?  Wonder if there might be that word "we" used by folks calculating hi numbers over there?)

says very little for folks at home that they would side with a guy who annexed independent countries, made being gay a crime, and shot down a plane full of civilians.

[billisonboard]

Nov 4, 2015 16:56:54 GMT -5 djAdvocate said:

Nov 4, 2015 16:46:41 GMT -5 wyouser said:

And, that asshole has an 87% positive rating from his folks at home.  (Bill's, do you wonder who does the calculations for Mr Putin?  Wonder if there might be that word "we" used by folks calculating hi numbers over there?)

says very little for folks at home that they would side with a guy who annexed independent countries, made being gay a crime, and shot down a plane full of civilians.

Wonder who the 13% were with the guts to say "Nyet".

[wyouser]

There are a number of complexes built inside the Russian soul. They have been invaded and sometimes overrun by Mongols, by Turks, By Persians, By Swedes, By Poles, by Vikings By Frenchmen, By Germans, and God knows who else. Putin knows how to play into fears of outsiders. He shows them an image of a bold fearless leader. He follows in the footsteps of a lot of leaders who were assholes. He also appears  pretty good at silencing opposition. (A little KGB background showing there?

[djAdvocate]

Nov 4, 2015 17:09:43 GMT -5 wyouser said:

There are a number of complexes built inside the Russian soul. They have been invaded and sometimes overrun by Mongols, by Turks, By Persians, By Swedes, By Poles, by Vikings By Frenchmen, By Germans, and God knows who else. Putin knows how to play into fears of outsiders. He shows them an image of a bold fearless leader. He follows in the footsteps of a lot of leaders who were assholes. He also appears  pretty good at silencing opposition. (A little KGB background showing there?

not to keen on Atilla The Hun as leader, myself.  howboutchu?

[wyouser]

Nov 5, 2015 8:33:41 GMT -5 deminmaine said:

Putin may be using and expending his power at a greater rate than Obama.

He damn sure does not have more power than Obama.

Merkel?

Certainly he does not have more power than America..But he sees and is not shying away from exercising the power he does have when he thinks he can get away with it. I am curious, if the downed Russian plane in Egypt turns out to have been brought down by ISSIS what his response may be? If so, might ISSIS have made an error and pissed off a real asshole??

[wyouser]

There was some discussion today about one  the guys in charge of Issis actions such as a bombing, is from Chechnia.  Does he remember , I wonder, the tactics Putin used to squash the rebellion there?  Like a full blown  scoarched earth policy? Putin shows little regard AND NO REGRET for collateral damage as I recall