Thursday, June 16, 2005
Iran goes to the polls tomorrow
You can't tell the players without a scorecard. Screwy Hoolie rounds up the candidates running for president of Iran.
Now that's funny. Not a bad post for a lefty.
In a nuttyshell, Iran is ruled by clerics who have a President as their second in command. The President has some limited powers, granted by the clerics, and it is through the Presidency that many hope reform might come to Iran. From where I'm sitting, it seems as likely as the Undersecretary for Fish and Wildlife influencing Bush foreign policy decisions. Iran is undergoing a long, slow process wherein the fundamentalists constrain the rights of the citizenry while providing a comparatively decent standard of living for most. Meanwhile, a rising tide of young people who lost their parents to the war with Iraq are manifesting an apathy that Kurt Cobain would've been proud of. It's likely that fewer than 50% of the voting age electorate will get out to cast a ballot.
Now that's funny. Not a bad post for a lefty.
1 Comments:
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Fri Jun 17, 06:38:00 AM:
Yah, but here's the lefty giveaway: "providing a comparatively decent standard of living for most." Providing? Not.
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