And you thought Iraqi politics was crazy
The education system of the United States is probably beyond repair. In all the caterwauling about Iraq, there is no context whatsoever from the MSM — and none is demanded! How amazing is it that the issue of democracy is even on the table for Sunni Arabs in Iraq — even if they are dragged, kicking and screaming, and occasionally exploding, by Shiites and Kurds?
Imagine if our treacherous MSM covered the eight years between the Battle of Yorktown and the ratification of the Constitution the way they cover Iraq. Imagine if they gave General George McClellan the publicity he needed to defeat incompetent warmonger and civil-liberites-abuser Lincoln in 1864. Would the public have bought it, or would they have tuned it out like they tune out the editorial views of CBS and the New York Times today?
Well, on a lighter note, we want to demonstrate that there seem to be even more extreme stories of democracy than Iraq. How about when billionaire entrepreneur plutocrats run for Congress, against thuggish Commie secret policemen, while serving long-term jail sentences, via WSJ:
Jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky is to run for the Russian parliament, after a group of prominent politicians agreed to support the candidacy of the country’s most famous prisoner in a Moscow by-election later this year.
Mr. Khodorkovsky, who along with business partner Platon Lebedev was sentenced in May to nine years in prison during May on charges of fraud and tax evasion they claim were politically motivated, also declared a hunger strike yesterday to protest authorities’ decision to move Mr. Lebedev to an isolation cell.
Dismissed as a publicity stunt by some, Mr. Khodorkovsky’s decision to stand for public office was praised by others as breathing new life into Russia’s fractured and demoralized liberal opposition to President Vladimir Putin.
Of course, for sheer oddness, nothing can beat this: Turkmenistan President Bans Lip Synching in his country.