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arib ([personal profile] arib) wrote2008-05-02 04:26 pm

Things could always be worse.

Sometimes, I look at the political mess that the US is in: a very unpopular president, a contentious election pending, and I worry about the state of the country I live in.

Then I look at Zimbabwe and feel better.

(How the heck do you manage to lose an election that you went out and rigged, anyway?)

[identity profile] lizardling.livejournal.com 2008-05-02 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
By being utterly bad for the country?

[identity profile] arib.livejournal.com 2008-05-02 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
he's been utterly bad for the country for several decades. but has still managed to pull off statistically improbably wins until now...

:-)

[identity profile] lizardling.livejournal.com 2008-05-02 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
:) I guess enough people are getting utterly fed up. It remains to be seen what will happen.

[identity profile] hfcougar.livejournal.com 2008-05-02 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
How the heck do you manage to lose an election that you went out and rigged, anyway?

It's like a zany Broadway musical!

Only not.
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[personal profile] bluepapercup 2008-05-03 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
*boggles*

[identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com 2008-05-03 03:03 pm (UTC)(link)
It's probably the inflation rate - Mugabe would've set aside, say, five billion Zimbabwe dollars to buy the election, but by the time it actually happened the price of a rigged poll had risen to something more like fifty billion Zimbabwe dollars.
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[personal profile] sethg 2008-05-04 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
They should have used their occult powers to consult Mayor Curley.