Archive for the ‘Mugabe’ tag
It surely sounds familiar
When I was reading this I could not avoid make the reference to the “Blame the speculators” trend among the Presidential candidates here:
Zimbabwe announced Wednesday that it is knocking 10 zeros off its hyper-inflated currency — a move that turns 10 billion dollars into one.
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“Entrepreneurs across the board, don’t drive us further,” Mugabe warned in a nationally televised address after the currency announcement. “If you drive us even more, we will impose emergency measures. … They can be tough rules.”
I only wonder who should be more worried from the comparison - Mugabe or McCain and Obama…
Heroic leadership
Mugabe’s acceptance speech this week is nothing less than extraordinary:
"Every one of them matters to me. Can I let them down?" AP news agency quotes Mr Mugabe as saying during his keynote address to delegates before his endorsement.
"No. Their welfare is my welfare. Their suffering is my suffering. I dare not abandon them," he said.
It is not the complete disregard of the reality, where Mugabe’s regime didn’t destroy Zimbabwe’s economy and brought its people to the edge of starvation, that is so shocking; But the apparent altruism and sacrifices that the beloved leader is taking on himself.
And by the way, isn’t his rhetoric sound very much like Edwards campaign’s populist speeches?