From the underwear. Part 2

A professional politician lives as if behind a fluid-permeable glass. His political image (that they say about him what they write), in essence, lives separately from him.

How many times in the past time, on the pathos of the NTV birthday in the Slavic-Radisson, I watched them, peacefully talking with glasses in their hands ... well-fed people who have successed their lives. The electors heated by them, meanwhile, converged on the streets almost hand -to -hand.

At first it shocked me.

Then I realized: these are the rules of the game.

A professional politician, as it were, takes out and puts his plywood in life in the middle of the people. Next to her can be photographed, you can spit on it and even, for some money, cut with a penny knife into small pieces.

The politician himself (if he is a professional, and not an amateur like me) at this time will sit in a cozy closed club nearby - perhaps in the company with his implacable political opponent. Between the hot and dessert they will cast a short curious look out the window - at you, with bittering the shredding plywood. Or protecting it from those who want to shuffle.

They will watch this, grin and spread a pair of witty replicas, and then just a dessert.

- What do we bring to the "public"?

For the first time, I heard this question during the period of information wars from the seasoned wolves of political journalism. It was the content of this Rublic (written in newspapers transferred on the radio) that became a reality for millions. In reality, of course, everything was a little different.

Or not a little.

My personal “public” always coincided with my beliefs, and I cherished this comfort. The family of my work and the way of life gave the opportunity to live without a double bottom. What they write and say about me concerns me. What I wrote and said was always my personal position.

I did not start neither the plywood, nor fluid-permanent glass around me, and in two election months I sorry much about it ...

Actually, we who want to convert from the 201st district were initially thirteen people; After Maria Gaidar removed from the race, a flat dozen remained.

With the motivation of this Pelaton, some inflammatory was observed. Well, Govorukhin, let's say, went to the polls, because “took money in the Kremlin” and ordered to give in kind. The reason is good. I am from the harmfulness of character and according to some democratic prejudices.

Well, Danilenko also sent the “homeland”, and the dad ordered Gudkov.

But the rest? Their motives are still listed in me in the category of secrets of nature. The owner of the travel agencies, professor, businessman, legal faculty graduate ... - Normal people. What did they forget in the open spaces of the 201th district, why got involved in this dreary matter? None of them supposed to win, there were no special political principles either, the mice sat ...

There was, however, among my comrades in misfortune, a couple of gentlemen are quite exotic. For example, the head of the mythical movement “New Democrats”, candidate of janitors gave voters with a booklet with a portrait of Patriarch Alexy II.

Vladyka overshadowed the words of support, which sounded quite imminent in the light of the information that was not indicated in the booklet that the above candidate has been living in Austria since 1999, as long as he has been “looking for” for fraud ...

Having learned about the latest circumstance, I quickly realized why the janitorium was the deputy, but why did the janitors of the patriarch himself still have not understood.

At first, I even alarmed the lord, thought: does he know that he is participating in the campaign of this unicum? But then it turned out that the Patriarch, to the heap, awarded the blessing and candidate Kubarev, and I realized that he was hopelessly behind the current Orthodox policy.

... If I were a fiction writer, more to the portrait of Dvornikov, believe me, I would not add anything - and so thick. But reality does not know a sense of proportion. So: already on the wanted list, he registered a non-profit partnership, called him the “Chamber of Commerce and Industry”-and appointed himself as vice president there! From what time it appears in all papers, in addition to everything, and as a vice president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry! Deputy Primakov, no more nor less ...

However, that there are Primakov with Alexy!

Among the departments of the deputy were a certain Zhdanov-Lutsenko-“Former Foreign Minister of the Republic of Crimea”, the comrade-in-arms of the tour of Heridal, without five minutes NASA astronaut, as well as a descendant of the Rurikovich and, part-time, Genghis Khan. All titles are taken from a preface to the book of his poems, which for two months walked in the unfortunate 201th district as campaign material. Already by this preface it was clear that both of them (both Zhdanov and Lutsenko), along with their relative Genghis Khan and other men who live inside, should ask for an audience from my friend, a brainstep by Andrei Biljo. And the poems! ..

However, after a month of the election campaign and a dozen meetings with voters - it was time for me to Biljo.