I'm not sure if you've heard anything about it, but there's a presidential election coming up... right here in America!

I know what you're thinking. Another one already? It seems like we just elected that Gore fella. Believe me, I feel you. Democracy can really chafe when your to-do list is already, like, a mile long. But you know me -- always the optimist. The way I see it, the glass is always half full... usually of methamphetamine diluted into ethanol! Oh, I'm only joshin'!

But seriously, folks, it could be worse: you could be in Afghanistan.

You see, they've got an election coming up, too. It should be an exciting time, what with their recent liberation from the tyrannical yoke of cretanous illiterate dirt worshippers, but observers of the rubble-mound of a country are concerned that someone might need to put a little more demo into their democracy. Why? Get this: Because they're all illiterate dirt worhshippers!

From the CNN article:

...both cheerfully admit they're illiterate, like 80 percent of the population, and they're confused about who to vote for and how to do it.

"God knows who he wants as president," says Hamidullah. "I will go to the voting booth and if I try to vote for someone that God doesn't want, he'll move my hand to the right box."

I mean, come on! Make all the jokes you want about dangling chads (especially because that kind of sounds like a term for penis.) Those ESL Cubans in Miami have nothing on Hamidullah here. For his sake, let's hope God can read the ballot.

I can hear it now: "The results are in. With 11% of the vote, it's Given Name. Interim President Hamid Karzai has 32%, and the winner, with 51%, is Date of Birth! Viva Afghanistan! Long may she wave!"


Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who is running for reelection, recently changed his name to a graphical representation of a bullseye.

Analogcabin @ 1:50 PM
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