Tonight I was watching at Tv news with my brother: they showed the american president Bush playing with his dog (I think it is a schnauzer or something similar). The black little dog ran happily in the snow (yip yap yap...). My brother (he's 14 years younger than me) asked what would be the penalty if someone would kick the ass of the dog of the president of the U.S.A...
We spent half an hour discussing the way to reach the dog avoiding the security systems and the men of the secret service, NOT to reach the president, but to reach the dog and kick it, then my brother said :"ok, but once you have done it, you'll probably go to the death row", and I replied: "Mmmh... I think there isn't such a hard penalty for kicking the ass of a dog in the U.S.A., but because that one was the U.S.A. president's dog I think I'll be sent to Guantanamo for sure..." (we laughed helplessly on the couchs). Finally he said: "...but think about the scene: crowds of arabs hailing you with posters where you're showed in a plastic pose watching the sun !" (really rolling on the couchs laughing)...
Note that this was not an anti-american discussion, we usually laugh at certain kind of stereotypes like when our infamous prime minister is talking about chatolic principles when he divorced and married another woman (nothing wrong, but don't talk about religious principles) or saying that all is going well here while we are slowly sinking in deep sh.t...
But I think that it is not a fault of the politicians, probably the people is really stupid and need to see certain scenes, like a president playing with his dog or saying it is a honest and religious guy... I'm able to make more realistic scenes with Poser...