I saw this cartoon on the Post’s website today and thought it mildy humorous. I then thought of what the punchline should really be: “While you’re back there, George, would you mind removing the knife from my back?” That’s referring to the dirty tactics used by the Bush administration in 2000 in South Carolina. I [...]
Archive of entries posted on March 2008
Now that was politics
It’s funny how we say today that politics is so dirty. We claim everyone is slinging mud at everyone else; there’s a media bias on the left or right; the candidates are going negative; blah, blah, blah. Well, it seems from this article in the Washington Post that that’s all a load of rubbish. One [...]
Democracy: Russian style
Voting figures any politician would love to see: With nearly 100% of the ballots counted, Mr Medvedev won 70.23% of the vote, Russia’s election commission said. Widespread accusations, of course, of election rigging including coercion to vote and stuffing ballot boxes abound. Russia, as usual, will get a stern look from observers like the Parliamentary [...]