Bush Consistent on Voting Rights

You've got to hand it to the Big W on this one: he's applying the same standard on foreign elections as he does when he's running:

Rights Group Says U.S. Is Too Eager to Endorse Suspect Elections
By HELENE COOPER (New York Times)
Published: February 1, 2008
WASHINGTON — The advocacy group Human Rights Watch on Thursday said that the Bush administration was giving lip service to the promotion of democracy around the world by endorsing suspect elections while allowing human rights violations in those countries to go unchecked.
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Russia, Jordan and “even China,” the group said, have “gotten into the game” of merely using the word democracy to claim real democratic credentials.

Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004 seem to have caught on - just like human rights violations in the name of fighting "terror."

•  The evil Bush did will live after him

  The good?  Well, there wasn't any, was there?

  by RepubAnon on Thu Jan 31, 2008 at 07:23:12 PM PDT

•  He is consistent

  - consistently WRONG!  

  by luckylizard on Thu Jan 31, 2008 at 07:31:23 PM PDT

•  bush consistantly... sucks

  he consistantly stole elections in 2000 by using his daddy's handpicked SCOTUS and in 2004 by rigging the diebold machines in ohio. so now we know that US elections are as unfair as those in china, russia, and a zillion other nations.

  don't look behind the curtain! we really don't want to see what an ass the wizard really is.

  by jsepeta on Thu Jan 31, 2008 at 07:38:36 PM PDT

  •  But you've got to admit

    He isn't hypocritical on this one issue.  Bush thinks that democracy consists of people saying the words "Democracy" and "will of the people" while rigging the election to make sure it comes out the "right way."

    by RepubAnon on Thu Jan 31, 2008 at 08:03:16 PM PDT