Hilary aint no Robert
July 1st 2008 13:33
You know the real problem with democracy.
You need to get people to like you.
That's hard.
Billionaires from all over the world have tried top run for office and have been denied because they are unlikeable.
You can't force people to like you, mostly.
Democracy is often a popularity test.
Hilary Clinton's biggest problem was that she was seen as too strong and too uncaring, so she started crying.
Her tears were Titanic.
Robert Mugabe doesn't have to cry.
Or be rich.
He was put into power during a vacuum, and has sucked the life out of his country ever since.
But now he has worked out three rules that mean he will always love democracy.
Stand unelected.
Kill anyone who stands against you.
And rig the votes.
It's really that simple.
Mugabe is now the world's most hated democratically elected head of state.
At this stage no one has decided to do much about it.
Even the cricket world, which loves to take the moral high ground, is not sure what to do with Mugabe.
If he had oil surely someone would have attacked him.
If he was white surely someone would have dethroned him.
And when Zimbabweans start winning Nobel peace prizes for surviving him Actors will start doing fund raisers to defeat him.
That's democracy for ya.
You need to get people to like you.
That's hard.
Billionaires from all over the world have tried top run for office and have been denied because they are unlikeable.
You can't force people to like you, mostly.
Democracy is often a popularity test.
Hilary Clinton's biggest problem was that she was seen as too strong and too uncaring, so she started crying.
Her tears were Titanic.
Robert Mugabe doesn't have to cry.
Or be rich.
He was put into power during a vacuum, and has sucked the life out of his country ever since.
But now he has worked out three rules that mean he will always love democracy.
Stand unelected.
Kill anyone who stands against you.
And rig the votes.
It's really that simple.
Mugabe is now the world's most hated democratically elected head of state.
At this stage no one has decided to do much about it.
Even the cricket world, which loves to take the moral high ground, is not sure what to do with Mugabe.
If he had oil surely someone would have attacked him.
If he was white surely someone would have dethroned him.
And when Zimbabweans start winning Nobel peace prizes for surviving him Actors will start doing fund raisers to defeat him.
That's democracy for ya.
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