World Leaders Survivor -Stage Three - Complete

[Nhoj]

Mohamed Nasheed

[Gustaf]

Fredrik Reinfeldt.

If Sigursdardottir wins this I'll be a bit embarassed. The woman has been in power less than a year and leads a teeny, tiny country that tried to get rich fast by reckless financial transactions and connections with the Russian mafia.

She isn't bad or anything but she hasn't done anything and is like half the leader of any of the last 10 or so.

[Ethelberth]

reinfeldt

although Vanhanen or Lokke Rasmussen would have been better.

[Edu]

Mohamed Nasheed

[So the Heroes Fall]

Sigursdardottir

[Hans-im-Glück]

Mohamed Nasheed

[Vasall des Midas]

If Sigursdardottir wins this I'll be a bit embarassed. The woman has been in power less than a year and leads a teeny, tiny country that tried to get rich fast by reckless financial transactions and connections with the Russian mafia.

The time to not be at least 'a bit' embarassed passed a while ago.* The Maldives aren't exactly larger than Iceland... and what has Reinfeldt done? (Apart from leading one of the least offensive major conservative parties to a rare electoral victory? Mind you, with First World Conservative leaders, never hearing their name again after they win is the best thing you can reasonably ask for.) But, say, what, other than double the population, distinguished him from John Key?
But hey, that happens with compromise choices. All of these three reflect a reasonablish compromise. (Though the levels of reasonableness might vary. But quite frankly, after all the sh!t that went down, I begrudge you the pleasure of "victory". A little bit. But enough to motivate my vote. )

*India is a democracy, or sort of. But dead0man was on to something with that early vote against them based on Freedom House or whatever he used. It's hardly a very free and fair place to live in. And the INC must bear the lion's share of the blame. Last times' victory was understandable due to the surprise ouster of the BJP government, but defending the title would have been quite undeserved. My last two votes were actually tactical votes to get Manmohan Singh out.

[Fmr. Emperor PiT]

     Reinfeldt

[big bad fab]

Frederik Reinfeldt

[Vasall des Midas]

It doesn't matter who I vote for this round.

La dee da.

Sigurthardottir. Until Hugh learns to spell.

[Gustaf]

If Sigursdardottir wins this I'll be a bit embarassed. The woman has been in power less than a year and leads a teeny, tiny country that tried to get rich fast by reckless financial transactions and connections with the Russian mafia.

The time to not be at least 'a bit' embarassed passed a while ago.* The Maldives aren't exactly larger than Iceland... and what has Reinfeldt done? (Apart from leading one of the least offensive major conservative parties to a rare electoral victory? Mind you, with First World Conservative leaders, never hearing their name again after they win is the best thing you can reasonably ask for.) But, say, what, other than double the population, distinguished him from John Key?
But hey, that happens with compromise choices. All of these three reflect a reasonablish compromise. (Though the levels of reasonableness might vary. But quite frankly, after all the sh!t that went down, I begrudge you the pleasure of "victory". A little bit. But enough to motivate my vote. )

*India is a democracy, or sort of. But dead0man was on to something with that early vote against them based on Freedom House or whatever he used. It's hardly a very free and fair place to live in. And the INC must bear the lion's share of the blame. Last times' victory was understandable due to the surprise ouster of the BJP government, but defending the title would have been quite undeserved. My last two votes were actually tactical votes to get Manmohan Singh out.

I disagree. I've been annoyed for quite a while true, but I wouldn't be embarassed by either Reinfeldt or Nasheed. Or Singh.

And I liked Key so that doesn't sway me.

[Hatman]

Sigurthardottir

[Platypus]

Believe it or not, we don't have that crossed d on Aussie keyboards, and there is no commonly accepted substitute, so I went with the one that at least had a d of some kind

[So the Heroes Fall]

Fredrik Reinfeldt.

If Sigursdardottir wins this I'll be a bit embarassed. The woman has been in power less than a year and leads a teeny, tiny country that tried to get rich fast by reckless financial transactions and connections with the Russian mafia.

She isn't bad or anything but she hasn't done anything and is like half the leader of any of the last 10 or so.

You could say the same thing about Nasheed. Yeah he ousted a long-standing dictator and that's awesome, but there were other leaders voted off who also fought for democracy in countries more important than one with less population than my city that has virtually no economy beyond tourism, much like those Carribean and Oceania leaders who got voted for leading "joke countries". He also has been in office for less than a year in an even smaller country than Iceland.

I'm not anti-Nasheed and wouldn't be too bothered by him winning (and I think he will actually), but he's not really any more important than Sigursdardottir.

[JWHart]

Nasheed

[Lief]

This final three is terrible. Sigursdardottir, I guess?

[Gustaf]

Fredrik Reinfeldt.

If Sigursdardottir wins this I'll be a bit embarassed. The woman has been in power less than a year and leads a teeny, tiny country that tried to get rich fast by reckless financial transactions and connections with the Russian mafia.

She isn't bad or anything but she hasn't done anything and is like half the leader of any of the last 10 or so.

You could say the same thing about Nasheed. Yeah he ousted a long-standing dictator and that's awesome, but there were other leaders voted off who also fought for democracy in countries more important than one with less population than my city that has virtually no economy beyond tourism, much like those Carribean and Oceania leaders who got voted for leading "joke countries". He also has been in office for less than a year in an even smaller country than Iceland.

I'm not anti-Nasheed and wouldn't be too bothered by him winning (and I think he will actually), but he's not really any more important than Sigursdardottir.

Nasheed, from what I recall has been an important political figure for a long time. Mandela would have deserved to win after a year in office, even if it had only been a year. Sigurdardottir just got in because everyone else was so tainted by Iceland's collapse. She hasn't, as far as I know, done anything to get there the way Nasheed did. I'm not saying Nasheed should be the winner either (I'm rooting for Reinfeldt out of the remaining ones) and I wouldn't have picked any of the remaining 3 for the win. My sole point is that Sigurdardottir is less deserving than the other 2 and less deserving than most of the finalists.

[Proud Lieberal from Northeast]

Frederik Reinfeldt

[Vasall des Midas]

Believe it or not, we don't have that crossed d on Aussie keyboards, and there is no commonly accepted substitute, so I went with the one that at least had a d of some kind

Yeah, but what's the s for?

[Vasall des Midas]

Nasheed, from what I recall has been an important political figure for a long time.

About half as long as Sigurdardottir...

[GMantis]

Mohamed Nasheed

[Platypus]

Believe it or not, we don't have that crossed d on Aussie keyboards, and there is no commonly accepted substitute, so I went with the one that at least had a d of some kind

Yeah, but what's the s for?

To soften the hard d, is my understanding.

[Platypus]

FINAL ROUND (68)

Australia - Kevin Rudd -eliminated round 52
Belize - Dean Barrow -eliminated round 50
Costa Rica - Oscar Arias -eliminated round 65
Denmark - Lars Lokke Rasmussen -eliminated round 54
Finland - Tarja Halonen -eliminated round 62
Germany - Angela Merkel -eliminated round 56
Iceland - Johanna Sigursdardottir -eliminated round 67
India - Manmohan Singh -eliminated round 66
Liberia - Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf -eliminated round 63
Maldives - Mohamed Nasheed
Mali - Amadou Toumani Toure -eliminated round 59
New Zealand - John Key -eliminated round 58
Norway - Jens Stoltenberg -eliminated round 61
Poland - Donald Tusk -eliminated round 57
Serbia - Mirko Cvetkovic -eliminated round 53
Slovenia - Borut Pahor -eliminated round 64
Spain - Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero -eliminated round 51
Sweden - Frederik Reinfeldt
Timor-Leste - Xanana Gusmao -eliminated round 60
Uruguay - Tabare Vasquez -eliminated round 55

Vote for the leader you want to keep. Least votes=eliminated. Voting will last for 72 hours.

[big bad fab]

Surprising final, but not so bad, far from it.

Frederik Reinfeldt.

[Fmr. Emperor PiT]

     FINALLY! Frederik Reinfeldt.