Kasparov's Thoughts on Putin & George W.

Carla Neal/Feb. 10 2008/10:15 am/Democracy Post

An interview was featured in a recent magazine issue with a man named Kasparov who ran against the current president of Russia in the most recent elections. He claims that Putin, the current president, fixed the recent elections. He also alludes to the fact that Putin has been messing with the people’s human rights and by doing this he is “slowly killing democracy” in Russia. However, it is not Putin the interview is directed toward; but it is directed toward the president of the US, George W. Kasparov claims that because the president has just stood by and not done anything to stop Putin that he is just as responsible for the “death of democracy” as Putin, then he goes on to talk about why the criticism has to come straight from “the top” and no where else.

The first problem with the article is that Kasparov does not give us any evidence to support his statements. He accuses Putin of “messing” with human rights but doesn’t give examples. This is a problem because most other sources are saying that Putin is respectable and good for his country, so for Kasparov to have any credibility he needs to provide evidence supporting his claims, also, Kasparov’s claims of election tampering are invalid because most losing opponents say or at least think that to some degree leaving us to wonder if that’s not what is going on here. So while George W. definitely isn’t the most credible person in the world even when it comes to democracy, this guy provides us with no evidence to support his claims, which makes it look like he’s just upset about losing.