A Tale of Two Dictator's...

Hugo No!

Putin Si!

In a heretofore unseen moment of clarity the good folks of Venvuela smacked down their thug dictator Hugo Chavez by rejecting his "reform" platform this past weekend. The boys over at Power Line have an entry that questions the veracity of calling the attempted power grab by Chavez "reform".

Humbled by his first electoral defeat ever, President Hugo Chavez said Monday he may have been too ambitious in asking voters to let him stand indefinitely for re-election and endorse a huge leap to a socialist state.

"Humbled"? Don't bet on it. Ticked off, PO'd, mad as hell, maybe. Humbled...me thinks not. Just wait and see how this plays out.

"I understand and accept that the proposal I made was quite profound and intense," he said after voters narrowly rejected the sweeping constitutional reforms by 51 percent to 49 percent.

51-49 percent....in this country the Democrats would call that a mandate! (Sorry, I couldn't resist)

Meanwhile, over in Russia, Vladimir Putin celebrated his decisive victory in their version of an election. However, not everyone was convinced of the legitimacy of the results

European election monitors said Monday that Russia's parliamentary ballot was unfair, hours after President Vladimir Putin's party swept 70 percent of the seats in the new legislature.
The victory paves the way for Putin to remain Russia's de facto leader even after he leaves office next spring. On Monday, Putin described the weekend's election as a vote of confidence in him.

Gary Kasparov called the elections the dirtiest elections in the nation's history.

There are no illusions that what is being called elections was the most unfair and dirtiest in the whole history of modern Russia," Kasparov said at a news conference, pointing at reports of massive vote violations.

Dirtiest elections in the nation's history, (??) the Czar and Czarina were unavailable for comment. Yet, the new president for life put the opposition at ease simply by declaring the "...parliamentary elections "legitimate" and thanked voters for a large turnout he says reflected the country's growing economic and political strength." Now shut up and go home or I'll........

There you have it .... A Tale of Two Dictator's. Clearly one of them did not do so well in the how to rig an election class at the Great Dictator Academy. Stay tuned folks, stay tuned.