Oh noes! President Alvaro Uribe has "hit a roadblock" on the way to rewriting his constitution again to run for a third term in office (that's Colombian for "Dictator-For-Life").
As it turns out, Mr. Popularity ended up spending "six times the legal limit" bribing prospective voters to put their Juan Hancock on the petitions, and now the evil elections council went and invalidated many millions of signatures! Can you believe this very terrible predicament Colombia finds itself in?
But wait...there may just be a way out, stay with me here: if Uribe can just manage to disappear eight to ten million Colombians by the end of the year, the remaining valid petitions may still be enough to get him on the ballot! Sure this will be a time consuming and potentially annoying project, but if the Colombian people demand it, who is Alvaro Uribe to stand in their way? Where others see only legally binding prohibitions, Alvaro Uribe smells the rotting carcass of opportunity.
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Talk about yer irony meters going "PMMF"--love that onomatopoeia!--finally, I have grounds to agree with all those wingnuts who've been calling her "Hitlery" for all this time.
(hangs head in shame)
Posted by QueenBina
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November 17, 2009 12:00 PM
Posted on November 17, 2009 12:00
I like pie
Posted by otto
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November 17, 2009 10:55 AM
Posted on November 17, 2009 10:55
Oops. Link.
Also, Radio Globo Honduras is reporting that Micheletti is talking about resigning Thursday, to be replaced by someone else who also is not the elected President.
I'm not kidding -- Hillary and her buddies may have ended up helping kick off the biggest round of coup-mongering in Latin America in the next 2 - 3 years since the early 1980s. Way to go.
Posted by El Cid
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November 17, 2009 8:06 AM
Posted on November 17, 2009 08:06
How nice -- coup leader General Romeo Vásquez Velásquez, who threw the elected President out of the country at gunpoint, says that the Honduran resistance must remember that the way you gain political power is through the votes.
A nearby irony meter was said to implode with a small "PMMF" sound.
Posted by El Cid
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November 17, 2009 7:58 AM
Posted on November 17, 2009 07:58
Actually, the Uribistas were (and maybe still are, I haven't seen latesly) trying to 'adjust' the Census results such that the voting population would be much smaller than would be required to approve the referendum.
Posted by El Cid
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November 16, 2009 4:47 PM
Posted on November 16, 2009 16:47