Apparently Zimbabwe is having troubles counting up the votes for its general election...is this possibly because Mugabe is so far behind that he is making last ditch attempts to increase the levels of his skullduggery????
I've just read on the BBC website that he is due to stand down anyway...
But that isn't the point of this post.
Americans scoff at countries like Zimbabwe and China and (Iraq) for the lack of, what they band about daily in their classrooms - freedom.
Remind me, for a country with a population of 300 million people, how truly free are your decisions, when your president is a guy whos dad also did it, and another presidential hopeful is the wife of another guy who did it???
This year, even social networking is playing its part in deciding the presedential candidates - the music video below, produced by Black eyed Peas star Will.i.Am returns 39,700 entries in YouTube, a top video watched by more than 6 million viewers and user generated spin offs that have been viewed by many more. The success of the videos on Youtube, chronologically, has neatly reflected Obama's real-life surge - first in opinion polls, and now in democratic nominations.
How free is a country who's presedential options are narrowed down to those who can financially afford to campaign??
How intelligent, democratic, and free thinking is a country when its presidents are potentially chosen on the back of a music video??
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