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I read what Condoleezza Rice had to say about Robert Mugabe and her words reminded me of another country…see if you can fill in the blanks:
This is what I was thinking (the highlighted words are mine):
“It’s well past time for George W. Bush to leave. I think that’s now obvious. The fact is that there was a sham election in 2000. There then has been a sham process of war, corruption, and manufactured crises. And now, we are seeing not only the political and economic toll that is being taken on the people of the world.”
This is what she really said:
“It’s well past time for Robert Mugabe to leave. I think that’s now obvious,” Rice said during a visit to Copenhagen, Denmark. “The fact is that there was a sham election. There then has been a sham process of power-sharing talks. And now, we are seeing not only the political and economic toll that is being taken on the people of Zimbabwe, but the toll in the humanitarian dimension as this cholera epidemic has broken out.”
It works out pretty nicely doesn’t it?
You too can fill in the blanks! just leave a comment with your words inserted!
Give it a try:
“It’s well past time for 1._________ to leave. I think that’s now obvious,” Rice said during a visit to Copenhagen, Denmark. “The fact is that there was a sham election. There then has been a sham process of 2._________. And now, we are seeing not only the political and economic toll that is being taken on the people of 3.________, but the toll in the humanitarian dimension as this 4.___________.”
The situation in Zimbabwe is awful and it has been awful for years. Maybe the Bush administration has only now realized that Zimbabwe is a real country and not just a cool word.
This post is for my dad, who refused watch the debate because he wanted to keep his sanity. I promised a review of the debate. I have failed you dad. What follows is all I could muster for political analysis.
I tried very hard to watch the “debate” but it was just too weird. Biden answered the questions while Pailn at one point said (I’m sumarizing)- “I’m not going to answer the questions, I’m going to speak directly to the American people.”
I tried being a good citizen, I tried to be open minded about Palin but every time she utters a word, she buries herself deeper into the soon-to-be melted Alaskan permafrost. Or the frost formerly known as “permafrost”. You know, like “the artist formerly known as prince”?
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More interesting musing-
On a related pop-culture note- at work, the lab where I have my bench (experimental area for the humanities majors in the audience) is connected to another lab which is connected to a third lab where I have my desk/computer. The two adjoining labs are run by a ridiculously cute German husband and wife duo. Anyway, there is a life-sized cardboard cutout of Elvis (the “Early Elvis”-just a good looking guy in a dark suit) in the middle lab (this is Memphis afterall). Rick, a Chinese researcher, had a Hawaiian lei hanging on his desk yesterday and as I was leaving, I decided that Elvis needed to wear that lei. So today another co-worker, an American, noticed the lei and without missing a beat said, “Hmmm, Elvis got lei’d”. Then he walked away leaving me laughing loudly in a room with 3 native Chinese speaker and one native German speaker, all of whom have had fewer than 5 years of English exposure. I got some weird looks and apologized, saying, “It is really funny if English is your native language….I wish I could explain it in Chinese/German….sorry….”.
Yeah, that’s me- the cross cultural ambassador.
