Fear of Clowns

Lots of challenges and complaints from the rights regarding the notion that foreign leaders want to see someone other than Bush in the White House. The sentiment is self-evident. Heck, over half of Americans want to see someone other than Bush in the White House. Although it's not quite the same thought, I can provide evidence that foreign voters want to be led by people who aren't too chummy with Bush.

Since it's formation, fourteen nations in the Coalition of the Willing have held elections for their head of state. Here's how the incumbents have fared:

• 7% have been re-elected
• 7% have died in office
• 7% have resigned
• 79% have been defeated at the ballot box or forced out of office

Here are details:

Winners:

• Angola - Due to the civil war Jose Eduardo dos Santos has re-elected himself President every day since 1992
• Eritrea - Doesn't have a government. Chaos re-elected by default every day
• Kuwait - Allah re-elects the Amir every day, much to the joy of the Monarch's loyal and loving subjects
• Marshall Island's Kessai H. Note - RE-ELECTED!

Losers:

• Azerbaijan - Heidar Aliev - defeated
• Czek Republic - Vaclav Havel - resigned
• Estonia - Siim Kallas - gone
• Georgia's Eduard Shevardnadze - forced out of office
• South Korea - No Mu-hyun - impeached
• Latvia - Einars Repse - vanquished
• Macedonia - Boris Trajkovski - died in plane crash
• Micronesia - Leo A. Falcam - whipped
• Lithuania - Rolandas Paksas - impeached
• El Salvador's Francisco Perez - whipped
• Slovakia's Schuster Rudolf - wiped out
• Soloman Island's Sir John Lapli - trounced
• Jose Maria Aznar of Spain's Popular Party - eliminated

Bush wanted regime change and his prayers were answered many times over.

The resources I used:
http://www.geocities.com/pwhce/willing.html
http://www.electionworld.org/
http://www.electionworld.org/
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/2003%20incumbents

// posted by Erik @ 7/23/2004 01:11:00 AM
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