A week or two ago I wrote an item here entitled “Why It Matters” which pointed to an article in the Russian PRAVDA Online discussing our election irregularities here in greater detail than we’ve seen from the bulk of the United States’ own media.
My point in highlighting the article was that the world is watching carefullly what happens in the United States, perhaps now more than ever as we are attempting — as claimed by the Administration, anyway — to spread democracy around the globe.
Apparently I was more prescient that even I had imagined at the time in pointing out that particular article. Take a look at what PRAVDA Online now has to say about the U.S.’s recent objections to the election results in Ukraine:
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Mention of “electoral fraud and abuse” from an American observer was risible, after the two fiascos in the USA which saw the most flagrant examples of vote-rigging and electoral fixing in modern history.
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When the Republican Party deploys electronic voting machines bought from Republican Party fundraisers who promised before the election to help the President to win, the OSCE [Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe] observers describe it as localised and insignificant incidents. However, when the incompent stooge Yushchenko fails to win in the Ukraine, it is fraud.
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If the West has a problem with that – and it appears that “international law” is a concept with which certain countries have a problem to understand these days – too bad.
In plain English, you can like it – or lump it.
Any other questions?
If we can’t get democracy right in our own country or even show an interest in the fairness and transparency of same by the bulk of our controlling governmental bodies and corporate media, then one can hardly expect the rest of the world to follow an example which we’re not particularly interested in applying to our own democracy.
Expect the international influence of the American Empire to continue to crumble in country after country, region after region as we here at home continue to fiddle even while worldwide democracy burns as a direct result of our own apathy for maintaining the health of our own once-fervently held democratic principles.
Wow, Brad, you’re starting to sound like me! Expect things to crumble, indeed… But not to worry, December 21st, 2012 is just around the corner.
*J*
Bush’s comments today seemed quite carefully scripted.
Also, Thank God for Keith Olbermann.
UK MP Michael Meacher wrote an article in the newstatesman.com detailing the fraud that took place in our election, the link is at rawstory.com
Is it me or does it seem like Bush and Powell are looking alot like Baghdad Bob?
We must deny the election results in the Ukraine because only we can steal elections like that!
The EU is not recognizing the Ukraine election, but they recognized ours?
Here are a couple of EU email addresses, maybe we can ask them about it.
euraud@eca.eu.int
info@curia.eu.int
Also, here are some Canadian media email addresses, please ask them to do some investigative reporting into US fraud.
cbcinput@cbc.ca
webmaster@herald.ns.ca
For Gods sake people your candidate lost fair and square. The election was not stolen!! Give it up already and moveon.org to something (anything) more productive. Kerry conceded!! Does that mean nothing to you people?? I guess you can officially start referring to Bush as a lame duck President now.
Well, Ed, perhaps you can explain why the GAO has decided to investigate the election in that case?
If it was "lost fair and square" than there would hardly be a case for the nonpartisan Congressional Investigative body to launch an investigation all by the themselves into the large body of evidence of vote fraud, suppression and other irregularities, no?
You are right on one point. Kerry conceding means nothing to "us people". Nor to anybody else, since a concession is a political nicety, as opposed to having any sort of legal standing.
In other words, if something crazy like the voters of Ohio having voted a majority for Kerry than Kerry becomes President of the United States. Concession speech or not.
I’d have thought a rightwinger like yourself would give a damn about such things as voting and democracy. But apparently, that’s just another one of the myths about you people.
Any REAL patriot should not have a problem with the election process being scrutinized and audited by independent organizations.
Either one is for democracy and transparency or one is against it. Democracy and transparency go hand in hand. One cannot exist without the other.
Both the Ukrainian and the U.S. election exhibited strong signs of fraudulent activity.
Stuff the lies Turkey, we (Democrats) actually won.
Only winning losers- cheat.
The truth (evidence) has been let out of the bag, now go choke.
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