Bush to Zimbabwe: "Stop the sham elections"

[Juche]

I'm sure this has been posted already but I just got off work and thought it deserved another thread.

Bush is oblivious as hell to his own hypocrisy and he has proven it again and again. One of my personal favorite pieces of hypocrisy of his is when he said that the President of Pakistan should step down as head of the military since a person shouldn't be both head of state and head of the military. What a dumbass, what does he think his job description is.

http://africa.reuters.com/top/news/usnN28484226.html

"Given the Mugabe regime's blatant disregard for the Zimbabwean people's democratic will and human rights, I am instructing the secretaries of State and Treasury to develop sanctions against this illegitimate government of Zimbabwe and those who support it........On Friday, the Mugabe regime held a sham election that ignored the will of the people of Zimbabwe"



You have to find this funny on some level. A guy who won in 2000 by having the Florida sec. of state kick 50,000 blacks off the rolls and won in 2004 by having the Ohio sec. of state suppress 300k+ democrat voters.

He should be in prison, but Its still funny as hell to see how oblivious he is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYQ68eTTMJM

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. It's not obliviousness- it's pure mockery.

Everything he says translates to "fuck you" (at least to the American public.

He's not stupid- he and his oil friends have gotten incredibly rich at our expense, which is how he's always worked, and how he always will be.

Disaster capitalism. Profiting through destruction.

[Karenina]

5. Indeed.

Most seem not to get that.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Oh HELL yes...

Hypocrite much? :eyes:

[PDJane]

3. The man is something....

But deciding precisely what he is...well. I don't wish to be rude.

[eppur_se_muova]

4. Wow, what if Mugabe knows enough to come back with an informed retort?

Slammed by a 3rd world tyrant -- how sad would that be?

[Sal Minella]

7. Like if Mugabe said, "I'll just have the U.S. Supreme Court appoint me President?"

[eppur_se_muova]

11. Hey, even Mugabe has standards! He wouldn't stoop that low! nt

[Sal Minella]

13. I would imagine the Bushistas are paying close attention --

The first Mugabe-Tsvnagari (sp) election, they spent five weeks counting and recounting ballots and never did come up with an answer, according to Mugabe.

This election was held on Friday and the coronation was less than 48 hours later -- I'm sure the Bushes will realize that simply killing off all the members of the opposition party is obviously the best way to go.

[Island Blue]

6. I just heard that story reported on NPR

while driving home from work. I was laughing my ass off in the car. Oh, the irony of it all.

[roamer65]

8. * and Mugabe are clones, IMHO.

Two fascist dictators running their countries into the ground.

[dflprincess]

9. The man has no sense of irony.

Remeber when he said we'd deal with Cuba when they had fair and honest elections? Castro responded "You first."

[lonestarnot]

10. 700 votes uncounted in Palm Beach Co. FL just last week.

Today three featured articles discuss an issue of over 700 votes that
just about went uncounted in Palm Beach Co. Florida this past week. But
for the fact that the county did an audit and eventually found that
election results on from three machines had not been reported in the
totals. It is still unknown what happened with these three machines.
There is speculation that a card reader may not have worked properly.
Another excuse is that the cards may never have been counted at all. The
county is investigating. What seems to be incredible is that the when
asked by the media early Friday about the discrepancy the Supervisor of
Elections, Arthur Anderson, told them that he was not aware of a problem
because he was out campaigning for re-election. Typically the Sequoia
spokeswoman, Michelle Shafer, ignored the fact that there is an ongoing
investigation as she claimed that the public can be confident that the
optical scanners worked and votes were properly recorded and tabulated.
She ignores the fact that the voters were not properly reported.

Featured Articles - FL: Palm Beach County - Problems Reported in County
Election System
http://www.cbs12.com/news/election_4708341___article.html/run_trial.html

FL: Palm Beach County - Critics rip elections supervisor after miscount
in West Palm Beach race
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-flpsnafu0628pnjun28,0,3240328.story

FL: Palm Beach County - Nearly 700 West Palm votes not tallied election
night
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2008/06/27/0627wpbelex.html

NAtional: Machining the Vote: A brief history of lever voting machines
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Machining-the-Vote--A-brie-by-Rady-Ananda-080628-791.html

FL: Florida’s 2008 Election Landscape Looking More Like 2000
http://www.alternet.org/democracy/89760/?ses=aa31c59ca344da065e31de7297131d6a

MS: Hosemann pushes voter ID for state
http://www.gulflive.com/news/mississippipress/index.ssf?/base/news/1214648103207120.xml

OH: Cuyahoga County - Cuyahoga elections board picks costlier scanning
system
http://blog.cleveland.com/pdextra/2008/06/cuyahoga_elections_board_picks.html

OH: Cuyahoga County - Voting machine swap means you'll scan paper ballot
http://blog.cleveland.com/pdextra/2008/06/voting_machine_swap_means_youl.html

OH: Cuyahoga County - Head of voting machine firm Hart InterCivic
questions Cuyahoga County choice
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/1214642084125190.xml&coll=2

PA: Bucks County - Advocates hope voting machines ruling has domino effect
http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/111-06282008-1555891.html

UT: Summit County - Board race still tight
System glitch keeps Brothers in the running, Jason Strykowski
http://www.parkrecord.com/todaysheadlines/ci_9721656

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[EFerrari]

12. There are some ironies that should just make you spontaneously combust.

This would be one of them.

[spanone]

14. i'd bet junior has a secret respect for mugabe

oh, the irony