Slog - Comments on The Other Election http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_2 Mugabe lost the election... ... He not only lost, he lost so badly that rigging the vote was not enough to cover the fact of the loss. And now the chief of the elections and registration, Tobiawa Mudede (yes, we are related), needs time (every second he can get!) to come up with something (anything!) that will keep history at a standstill and his boss, The Most Honorable Robert Mugabe, in power. Monitors warn on Zimbabwe 'delay' MDC supporters celebrate after reports of an early polls lead in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe The MDC has been warned against declaring itself the winner... Copyright 2008 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:56:31 -0800 Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:12:38 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by tsm Wow. I can't believe he failed to rig it.

]]> tsm http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_2#c985820 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_2#c985820 2008 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:05:47 -0800 Comment by Morgan Hopefully we can also manage an irrefutable margin in November.

]]> Morgan http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_2#c985823 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_2#c985823 2008 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:09:45 -0800 Comment by vooodooo84 Who wants to bet he stays even though he clearly lost

]]> vooodooo84 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_2#c985826 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_2#c985826 2008 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:21:16 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe Um.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_2#c985830 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_2#c985830 2008 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:32:22 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Go, Mugabe. Just go. Die in exile in Venezuela or someplace.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_2#c985860 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_2#c985860 2008 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:39:18 -0800 Comment by Y.F. If Mugabe leaves by his own will, it will be for greener pastures. He's a dictator, they only let go if someone ousts them by force or greed lures them to another place with more sheep to sheer.

]]> Y.F. http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_2#c985864 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_2#c985864 2008 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:47:00 -0800 Comment by Sargon Bighorn From the bread basket of Africa under white rule to the depths of horror and dictatorship under Black rule, one must stop and ponder what went wrong. Why was it that they could feed themselves, their workers, the nation and half the continent under one system and under the other they have 100,000% inflation.

]]> Sargon Bighorn http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_2#c985882 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_2#c985882 2008 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:18:00 -0800 Comment by vooodooo84 @7 what? are you an apologist for Ian Smith now?

]]> vooodooo84 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_2#c985889 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_2#c985889 2008 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:31:42 -0800 Comment by Karlheinz Arschbomber OK, anybody with the 'Mudede' name is now permanently on the no-fly list. Pulling dirty tricks to keep Mugabe in power? Ugh.

How you can mess up a beautiful, productive country and turn it into a wasteland, I don't know. But Mugabe sure does. He gives colonialism a good name. Best wishes to the successor, he has an impossible task in front of him, cleaning up that disaster.

Please, please let this be the end of this Hitler/Stalin wannabe, Mugabe. What a piece of shit that asshole is.

]]> Karlheinz Arschbomber http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_2#c985891 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_2#c985891 2008 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:48:34 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Your white/black manicheaism is ignorant, Sargon. For starters, Zimbabwe was still Africa's breadbasket, and the continent's fastest-growing economy as recently as a decade ago. The country didn't start to collapse until the aggressive program of land redistribution began, whereby all of the people who knew how to farm were killed or driven out of the country, and their farms given to Mugabe's relations, none of whom knew how to farm. Not a black/white thing, but a competent/incompetent thing.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_2#c985896 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_2#c985896 2008 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:29:59 -0800 Comment by unPC @8
@10
What are you -- word policemen?

"Manichean" use of "black" and "white" -- oh my god @7 is threatening the world with that the scourge of incorrect dulaistic thinking once again!! Quick, hide the kiddies and food stocks!!

You sound like the real problem here is @7 -- not Mr. Mugabe.

The real problem is Mugabe (dictatorship, abuse of power, starvation and corruption).

Whether someone uses the words "black" and "white" in a PC or a non PC manner in talking about him -- is just not a problem.
And in fact it's that kind of thinking ("at least he's not Ian Smith" "we must always keep in mind, this thug followed Ian SMith and white rule, so we have to excuse it a bit") that has been used to keep a thug like Mugabe in power for so long.

]]> unPC http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_2#c985928 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_2#c985928 2008 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:48:03 -0800 Comment by Fnarf I'm surprised to see, unPC, that you're a total fucking moron on more subjects besides just Hillary Clinton.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_2#c985979 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_2#c985979 2008 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:04:44 -0800 Comment by Cale I think this is the first time during my life that a dictator like Mugabe has actually been VOTED out.

Best news I've heard for a while.

]]> Cale http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_2#c986000 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_2#c986000 2008 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:43:18 -0800 Comment by mmbb Validate your sources, please.
The Onion?
The Starr?
National Review?
WSJ?

CopyPaste is amusing, but if you can't (or won't) provide the actual sources, then you are diminished as a "journalist" (you're a columnist, at best...).

]]> mmbb http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_2#c986001 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_2#c986001 2008 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:45:24 -0800 Comment by Molly Dolly Mugabe's giveaways are reminiscent of Castro's refrigerators, Elvis' cars and Oprah's everything! Except they probably don't/didn't look as swell in leopard skin pillbox hats.

Giveaways are constant, like light -- it's the context that changes. Capitalism, culture and corruption make giveaways possible -- the age of (t)reason opiate of the people!

]]> Molly Dolly http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_2#c986010 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_2#c986010 2008 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:10:32 -0800 Comment by Will Penguin Dude makes good wine, though.

]]> Will Penguin http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_2#c986093 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_2#c986093 2008 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:44:25 -0800 Comment by Marguerite "I think this is the first time during my life that a dictator like Mugabe has actually been VOTED out."

Pinochet? One can only hope a transition for Zimbabwe will go as, erh, semi-smoothly as Chile's.

I was kind of wondering why there was no mention of this in this week's issue.

]]> Marguerite http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_2#c991099 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/the_other_election_2#c991099 2008 Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:12:38 -0800