But maybe the two guys staring at each other over a line in the sand are not Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and George Bush but Bush and Putin. Sure enough, the subject came up in today's press conference.
The president nonetheless acknowledged American frustrations at trying to influence Russia. “In terms of whether or not it’s possible to reprogram the kind of basic Russian DNA, which is a centralized authority,” Mr. Bush said, “that’s hard to do.”
It's gotten pretty hard over here, too, with Bush stomping all over our constitutional DNA.
