You Think Kim Jong Il Would Accept These Numbers?
What kind of loser dictator runs for election unopposed, and gets less than 100%?
Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has won a second seven-year mandate after netting 97 percent of the vote in a referendum boycotted by the opposition, officials announced on Tuesday.
Interior Minister Bassam Abdel Majid said Assad, 41, won a massive 97.62 percent in Sunday’s referendum, with some 11.19 million Syrians taking part, or almost 96 percent of those eligible.
By my count, that’s about 250,000 Syrians who are soon to be hanging by their 500,000 thumbs.