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Rousseff is Brazil's first female president
Wash Post ^ | 10.31.10

Posted on 10/31/2010 7:12:46 PM PDT by Perdogg

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To: Clintonfatigued

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

A Marxist will always be a Marxist.

She can deny deny deny deny ....

But she will always be a Marxist.

She’s just changed her label.

But don’t worry, we also have closet Marxist of our own in the WH. So why bother?


21 posted on 10/31/2010 10:09:52 PM PDT by convertedtoreason ( Nature tells us to take a conservative stance.)
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To: Frank_2001
The Girl from Ipanema, or even the Lady from Ipanema, she ain’t;)

TTISWP.


22 posted on 10/31/2010 10:25:07 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: Perdogg

Note the wistfully admiring tone of the first line - it says, “Why isn’t OUR Marxist leader this competent and capable.”


23 posted on 10/31/2010 10:33:29 PM PDT by Interesting Times (SwiftVets.com. WinterSoldier.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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To: Perdogg

Rousseff is an anti-American murderer. She helped plot the brutal murder of American Captain Charles Chandler who was machine-gunned in his car in front of his family while living in Sumaré, SP.

She must never be welcome here in the States.


24 posted on 11/01/2010 3:40:32 AM PDT by Westbrook (Having children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: Westbrook

She will probably be the guest of the next State Visit, with Bill Ayers and Bernie Dorn sitting at the head table.


25 posted on 11/01/2010 5:11:27 AM PDT by maica (Freeper 'rllngrk33' coined the acronym 'LAME' the other day...'Liberal Activist Media Establishment')
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To: Perdogg
She was a guerilla early in life. What is her current political temperment?


26 posted on 11/01/2010 5:12:50 AM PDT by mbarker12474 (If thine enemy offend thee, give his childe a drum.)
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To: maica

> She will probably be the guest of the next State Visit,
> with Bill Ayers and Bernie Dorn sitting at the head table.

Makes me want to hurl chunks.

She’s a commie, and a bloody one, too. She and Ayers and Dohrn are fellow travellers, certain sure.


27 posted on 11/01/2010 5:17:33 AM PDT by Westbrook (Having children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: Frank_2001

> Soros seems to have pulled it off;)

Soros is nor a Marxist. He uses Marxists as useful idiots.

Soris is an international fascist. The difference is subtle, but important.

Either way, the vision is that the leadership (which would include Soros) live large while the rest the world live in collectivist squalor.


28 posted on 11/01/2010 5:20:39 AM PDT by Westbrook (Having children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: dr_who
Brazil exists to make France and Greece look good.

And they do it so well.


29 posted on 11/01/2010 5:23:28 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Planning on using 911? Google "Brittany Zimmerman")
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To: Perdogg

One factor behind Rousseff’s victory is her support from Evangelical Christians voting together with conservative Catholics on social issues.

Approximately 20% of Brazil’s population is Evangelical Christian. Although they are composed of disparate denominations and do not have a single leader, the curious thing is they tend to pretty much vote like a bloc.

See here :

http://www.mmorning.com/ArticleC.asp?Article=8536&CategoryID=7

EXCERPT :

But both Serra and Rousseff are doing all they can to sway Silva’s support base, most notably by wooing evangelical voters who flocked to her because of a perception that Rousseff would legislate the ruling Workers’ Party opposition to Brazil’s ban on abortion.


See also here from the Wall Street Journal:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304316404575580052462921346.html

EXCERPT:

Ever since Brazil returned to democracy in 1985, presidential elections have been dominated by economic concerns as the country lurched from crisis to crisis. Potentially explosive issues such as whether to legalize abortion and gay marriage were rarely on the front burner, though the nation of 190 million is often called the world’s biggest Catholic country.

This time, a grass-roots campaign of sermons, Internet videos and DVDs distributed mainly by evangelical pastors thrust moral questions like abortion and gay marriage abruptly onto the political agenda and forced Ms. Rousseff and Mr. Serra to declare positions. Joined by some conservative Catholic bishops, the evangelicals mobilized at least partly in response to the government’s approval last year of a broad social plan supported by Ms. Rousseff’s party that included calling for greater gay rights and abortion rights.

In order to shore up support among religious conservatives, both Ms. Rousseff and her rival, Mr. Serra, added opposition to legal abortion to their campaign platforms. That meant a big move to the right for Ms. Rousseff, an ex-Marxist guerrilla who has supported legalizing abortion in the past.

“We’ve written a new chapter in the history of our nation,” said Silas Malafaia, a popular Brazilian televangelist who mailed more than 300,000 DVDs in September admonishing followers not to vote for candidates who would decriminalize abortion or extend more legal protections to gays.

On Thursday, Pope Benedict XVI also instructed a group of Brazilian bishops to urge parishioners to vote for candidates who oppose legalizing abortion.

Brazil’s political debate is broadening amid economic prosperity, some scholars say. “Moral issues normally play second fiddle to institutional or economic concerns,” says Paul Freston, a professor at Brazil’s Federal University of São Carlos who has written a book about evangelism and politics in the developing world. “That may be changing, and if it is, it’s yet another sign of how a more stable, prosperous democratic process is opening up space for other issues.”


30 posted on 11/01/2010 7:14:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: Hoodat

Indeed. I think this discussion needs an influx of hot Brazillian girl photos to take our mind off Magilla here.


31 posted on 11/01/2010 7:29:24 AM PDT by mquinn (Obama's supporters: a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise)
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