Their Fortunes Forever Entwined June 15, 2009
Posted by mike in Uncategorized.trackback
….or alternately titled Separated At Birth –Politicial Edition
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad “winner” of Iran’s 2009 election.
George “Tater-Head” Bush, ” winner” of America’s 2000 election.
Stick Figure Man (SFM), never won anything in his life.
Isn’t it amazing! I suspect if you walk down the street casually in Iran you will also have trouble finding anyone who voted for either of them!
Amanda–SFM has been in Iran for almost 2 years now
rigging the electionworking for Mahmoud. He says the election is legit. I believe we can take his word for it. After all, he has a long history of truthfulness.Actually I read a rather well-written analysis of the election today that said the same thing as SFM. So he may be right. ‘Course, I used to work with a guy who confronted every strong argument with the same rejoinder: “Well, you may be right!”
Cat–I think this is very similar to the whole “Obama is a Muslim” thing. People believe it because they want to and not because there is any evidence. I think we might just want to believe that Mahmoud won by some questionable methods, but at this point, there’s not much evidence of it.
Maybe the opinion polls were the things that were rigged…..
Them guys almost got th moves.
I thought stick figure man and dubya were that same guy, and give Mamoo some credit, he’s got more charisma than Dubya
Amanda–You are probably right.
Joey–Yeah, they sure do.
Malach–He at least has more balls and more brains than Dubya. Course that ain’t saying much.
Wow, dude. Let it go. Your guy won.
Now…ssshhhhh.
According to the new guy, we’re just supposed to sit around and ‘listen.’
Right. And according to the right, we’re supposed to forget about the last 8 years.
Ha! You Wish.
Of course I don’t blame you. I’d be embarrassed too. But hey, looks like you’ll get to nominate Rush in a few years. That’ll be a hoot!
The Iranians are one up on us. At least a bunch of them took to the streets when it was announced Dinnerjacket won.
I can’t believe some people are still hung up about 2000, Florida, and hanging chads.
Let it go. You’re never gonna get those eight years back, so just move on. Christ, the right didn’t bitch this much when the newspaper headlines had to be changed for Truman, did they? Truman won, ok, fine, let’s move on.
Bush won the original count. He won three recounts. He won the absentee ballot count. Hell, the New York Times had a Harvard expert use statiscal models to see who would have won if all the unpostmarked absentee ballots had been discarded and Bush still won.
There comes a point where you’re no longer demanding recounts because you want justice; you’re demanding recounts because you’re a sore loser.
Granted, in retrospect, those eight years weren’t exactly the greatest…
Beach–Yeah, each nation needs to have its own Ahmadinejad.
nhfalcon–Amazingly enough, I voted for Bush in 2000. Biggest and worst vote I have ever cast. Of course I am nothing if not fair. I also voted for Jimmy Carter in 1976.
Bottom line was: Bush won. America lost.
I have absolutely nothing to add.
“Just sitting here and listening”… =)
“Dinnerjacket”!! BWAHHAHHHAHAHHAAAA!
Sorry…hadn’t heard that one before.
Sigh–It’s okay. This post was meant to be a joke, but I guess it’s easy enough to draw parallels between Bush and Mahmoud.
HT/GT–That man has plenty of names, but I guess one more wouldn’t hurt.
I am giving up on watching the news, it is to f’n depressing
Malicious Intent: You can always switch over to Desperate Housewives!
MI–It sure is.
Atlas–From depressing to desperate?
Not all th news is depressin.
I heard there may be a rise in th rate of infellation.
Caio from Italiano! Jack is trying to teach them to put Jager in the freezer for him, but no luck! He would have much to tell you about our tour at the Vatican and his interesting theories, Christianity is a myth is what he wants me to tell you.
It is a beautiful city and we are eating amazing food. We will share more later!
Joey–Depends on how old you are. After a certain age, infellation becomes deflatation.
Jack and Heidi–Somehow I was thinking you were going later in the summer. Glad to hear you are there and having a good time. Jackie and The Boy are down here in Texas for few days, so my peaceful existence has ceased to exist.
I haven’t had my fill of Texas BBQ yet, but once I do, I might try to find a little Italian place. Or maybe just a nice little Italian.
You know looking a second time. I see a family resemblance in the pointer fingers and the beady eyes.
So SFM did NOT win, and had th decency to face it.
Makes him more of a MAN than eithr o them othr two …
MI–Yeah, brothers froma another camel.
Joey–SFM is nothing if not honest.
سحب إصبعي!
I fucking knew it!
TERRORIST.
Updated for Joey:
در تنگنا انگشت من!
Yeah. Iranians speak Fartski, not Ayrabbick.