Comments on The Other Election

I like this strange new informative and interesting Charles Mudede.

To be fair, that was a totally awesome team.

Reminds me of another country where people watch American Idol and Project Runway instead of, I don't know, dealing with stuff that matters.

Under the military dictatorship in Brazil, the newspapers would signal to readers that the government was censoring them by printing a recipe for chocolate cake on page 1.

@4:

"let them eat cake."

[those officials are probably thinking that to themselves.]

[maybe that was what the government thought its people were capable of doing.]

terrible that governments in this day and age do that. innovative in the way newspapers show their displeasure.

now if those cakes were actually baked then thrown at these officials, that'd be great.

resistance is tasty.

Total Football, yeah. Changed the world.

I hope Zimbabwe is OK. I'm afraid for them tonight.

So, um, with our new desire for a changed foreign policy including talking to folks, shouldn't Clinton and Obama say something about Zimbabwe? And explain what they would do if they were president.

I do believe a couple of times that other president Clinton rattled a saber or two when when Latin American rightists were about to defraud voters.

Why isn't South Africa and the OAU doing something, too?

Oh maybe we should do nothing because we are capitalist. Then, when Mugabe stays in power, we can do something! We can join with the Zimbabweans in exile here who make good points that everything bad in Zimbabwe is due to global capitalism, centuries of white rule and colonialism, etc. etc.

Have to agree, the problem is, we're used to living in a nation where elections are stolen, so why should we be surprised when it happens in Zimbabwe?

In America when elections are stolen our news outlets talk about how close of an election it is and pretend that nothing is wrong. The corrupt government officials can actually count on telvised news coverage to never actually cover stuff like the news.

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Of course in Washington State, when we remove all the polling places, with Vote-By Mail, and have already stopped the process of posting vote tallies at the polling place, and instead really on the central vote totals produced by secret machines like Diebold's scanners... well you get the point I think?

Mugabe would have done well to secure a better electronic voting machine before this election. Then the official totals could never really have been challenged.

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