These people are unbelievable.
Speaking through his ambassador to Nicaragua, George II has demanded that the Nicaraguan people refrain from voting for Daniel Ortega, Sandinista candidate for the presidency, who is favored--barring US intervention--to win in November.
It is of course to be expected that George II would loathe Ortega. All good Republicans despise the Sandinistas, because it was the Sandinistas who kicked off the most recent round of Latin American resistance to US colonialism. What was not expected, at least by me, is that Ambassador Paul Trivelli would cite as reasons for opposing Ortega a set of policies and procedures allegedly endorsed by the Sandinista leader that have actually found their quintessence in the regime of George II himself.
In an
interview with the Financial Times, Ambassador Trivelli said Nicaraguans should spurn Ortega because he is "'undemocratic' and would roll back much of the advances made in recent years."
Undemocratic. Hmm. Isn't it George II who has decreed that here, "in a time of war," we don't much need any guff from the legislative or judicial branches, much less any pesky whining about international treaties, that the law instead shall be what he, George II, deems it to be? Isn't it his VP, Darth Cheney, who has damned the Congress as "a bunch of annoying gnats?" Isn't there some legitimate question as to the "democratic" nature of the last two presidential elections, some legitimate basis for suspecting that one or more of those elections may, in fact, have been stolen?
As for "roll[ing] back much of the advances made in recent years," I'd say that was the purposeful policy of the George II regime, to roll back advances not only of "recent years," but all advances rolling all the way back to the Gilded Age.
Then Trivelli says this:
"It's one thing to be truly democratic. It's another thing to do what the Sandinistas really have done, which is to distort and manipulate democracy for partisan and personal benefit," Mr Trivelli said. "The fact that [Mr Ortega] has been in charge of the Sandinista movement for 25 years or more gives you a clue about his democratic tendencies."
"Distort and manipulate democracy for partisan and personal benefit"? Who does that sound like?
If it "gives you a clue about his democratic tendencies" that Ortega has led the Sandinistas for 25 years, what sort of clue should we get from the fact that, as of 2008, a member of the Bush Crime Family shall have occupied the office of president or vice president for 20 of the preceding 28 years?
Trivelli further whines that Ortega "has talked of increasing the role of the state."
The role of the state in the United States has never been greater or more intrusive than it has become in the War on Terra.
Then Trivelli says "the US was simply trying to 'bring back that balance a bit' in a political landscape in which the Sandinista party had helped 'hijack' Nicaragua's democratic institutions."
Gee. Isn't that what the Democratic Party is presently trying to do: to "bring back that balance a bit" in a nation where the Rovian Republican Party has "hijacked [America's] democratic institutions"?
For his final monument to hypocrisy, Trivelli notes that "he had no doubt that Venezuela under its radical leftwing president was playing a role in Nicaragua's elections."
Of course Trivelli's call for Nicaraguans to vote for someone other than Ortega doesn't qualify as "a role" in Nicaraguan's elections. And neither, I suppose, does the $10 million the US has pumped into the Nicaraguan political system. And Satan only knows what those folks working on the dark side are getting up to down there.
These people have to be made to go away. From Nicaragua, and from the USA.