World Leaders Survivor -Stage Three - Complete

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Merkel

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Merkel

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Merkel

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Again Tusk

I can't vote him out of office right now, but I can try to eliminate him there

Help with Merkel, and we might go after him next.

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Merkel

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Merkel

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Merkel

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Tusk has made it possible for Poland to get rid of one Kaczynski.

Er, no. He has profitted from being the alternative to the Kaczynskis. If you're looking for who made it inevitable for Poland to get rid of one Kaczynski, "Kaczynski" is the name you search.

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Since Jerzy Buzek. At best. Tusk is not an evil man but a rather dense ideologue. (He's a close cousin of Merkel, actually.)

Tusk.

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Ugh, I just noticed that that World Bank plant is still on.

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf.

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Johnson-Sirleaf goddamit.

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She's out.

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Johnson Sirleaf

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Johnson Sirleaf

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Singh

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Nasheed

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A new rule for the last rounds could be to count only votes without typos (or real mistakes)...
Sigursdardottir would be ousted immediately !

That would be unfair as she's misspelled in Hugh's list.

Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir

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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.

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

La dee da.

Sigurthardottir. Until Hugh learns to spell.

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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?

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

About half as long as Sigurdardottir...

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Muhammad Nasheed. (Let's enter some spelling error of my own.)

"Frederik" is not German, Gustaf. Fréderic is French, and Frederick is English, and both are occasionally borne by Germans as well, but the German version of the name is of course Friedrich.

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I really hope you aren't blaming Indira and Sanjay's antics on Manmohan Singh.

Of course not. That'd be frigging daft, now would it?
But as long as deputy commissioners in rural districts are basically little dictators for theduration of their posting in the particular location, and even in a big city like Bangalore the municipal corporation is utterly irrelevant politically and the state cm might as well be doubling as lord mayor officially, I have trouble counting India a "real" democracy.

Plus, I've been reading too much Adiga recently.

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I really hope you aren't blaming Indira and Sanjay's antics on Manmohan Singh.

Of course not. That'd be frigging daft, now would it?
But as long as deputy commissioners in rural districts are basically little dictators for theduration of their posting in the particular location, and even in a big city like Bangalore the municipal corporation is utterly irrelevant politically and the state cm might as well be doubling as lord mayor officially, I have trouble counting India a "real" democracy.

Plus, I've been reading too much Adiga recently.

You actually once called the "World's greatest democracy" at one point.

It's a figure of speech. Largely related to the county's very size.