My Orange Crush

With Putin all up in the news cycle, I could not help but vaguely reminisce that about time a couple of years ago when he slithered down a chimney and dosed that Ukranian guy’s vodka with ugly-powder. Remember that? Sorta? Same here, and the revisitation is interesting enough that I dug around a bit and become retroactively hipper to all kinds of interesting Ukrainian stuff.

Most strikingly thing about the Ukraine:
Woweezowee, their PM is a fox

I give you the recently restored to office Yulia Tymoshenko. Aside from the fact that my crush does not give due respect to her political stature and talents - of which I know little - can you blame me that my delight in Dana Perino, as steely as it is, has wavered in the face of Tymoshenko’s brown-eyed gaze?  To speak to this point, it sounds like she’s quite happy to dye blond and coo the simpler sex into visions of a cunningless heroine-femme.

Remarks one interviewer:

I can’t help but wonder if this kind of tactic would fly in the States. After all, electoral success here for women appears to require jettisoning sexuality entirely. Womenlyness is fine and well in so far as it’s focused on educating our children and nurturing our ill, but grow your hair past your shoulders or otherwise even remotely approach Tymoshenko’s princesslyness, and you are out. Maybe someday we’ll see Sarah Palin’s hair down in public, but it won’t be very often. More interesting still is that she herself strickly followed the maternal-secretary school of feminine image-making until right around her most substancial ascendence during the Orange Revolution of 2004-2005, where she clearly began to challenge one convention ( prob to take keenly take advantage of another.)

2003:

2007:

For certain, I selectively choose these two images. She presents herself in the traditional mold plenty these days. But what is interesting is a.) that she and so many others effectively never veered from it in the past, and b.) she is now challanging the frame of how a western female politician can appear at the exact some moment she is directing the Ukraine towards the West, and speaking of her admiration of Marget Thatcher.

Pretty neat.

She will be interesting to watch, and to return to my original sentiment:
Yulia Timoshenko, you dress like the white witch, poo-poo Moscow,
and your name is fun to say irregardless of the correct pronunciation. Yu-lee-a Tee-moe-shank-o. Call me, my orange crush.

And, really, I’m not advocating her occasional positioning as such, I’m just saying I’m a sucker for it.

Did I mention her personal site is pink?

In other attractive Ukrainian political news:
Current president and Timoshenko pal Viktor Yushchenko was known as “the eastern European Bill Clinton” for his dashing good looks and charm. Like Putin says: “Dioxin is a hell of drug”. The before and after is shown below.

Yeah, and the name of Viktor Yushchenko’s chief competitor for the presidency was Viktor Yanukovych. Ethnocentricity aside, picture those names together on a ballot. Viktor Yushchenko. Viktor Yanukovych. Where are our Barack Clinton and Barret Clinetino?