From Russia with Love

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What goes for sex goes double for politics. - Kate Clinton

Like many, I had trouble logging on to Livejournal yesterday. I immediately suspected another hactivism attack from Russia and went looking for any news mention of it. 

I found this story about the upcoming election in Russia and Vladimir Putin's potential candidacy....

 

A group of young women in Russia have dubbed themselves "Putin's Army" and are advocating the candidacy of Vladimir Putin in the 2012 elections. It seems to be a self-empowered group who appear to be doing this on their own. To bring attention of this, they are sponsoring a contest that encourages young, beautiful and smart women to show "how far they would go for President Putin" in a video. They would then post the winning videos on a social website that is the Russian equivalent of Facebook. The contest would be promoted on other social networking sites such as Livejournal as well. The prize would be an iPad 2.

This isn't the first time women have used their sex appeal for political purposes. During the 2008 elections in the United States, there were opposing and combined videos of Obama Girl and Giuliani Girl promoting their candidates. The phrase that comes to mind is "sex sells". It has been used to sell everything from perfume to beer. Incidentally, I have found those two products are in no way interchangeable.


Was the last Livejournal outage a hack attack to suppress a Putin candidacy? Is the future of worldwide politics to promote candidates as commodity products using slick media and sex appeal, much like jewelry or alcoholic beverages?

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[htpcl.livejournal.com]

Oh, and it could definitely be something like this (http://talk-politics.livejournal.com/957323.html) again.