Indolent blue-collar imbecile Homer may not be a model citizen or a working-class hero, but you have to look next door, at his squarely middle-class, born-again neighbor Ned Flanders to find where the slap invariably sticks.

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As for their president, most Russians had dismissed him as at best an imbecile, at worst a rascal bent mainly on shielding his family and cronies from prosecution for the corruption in which most believed they were deeply involved.

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