Imanutjob from Iran has booked first class tickets to Brazil.
DUmmies will have to console themselves with her win. I’m sure Obama is rushing to a phone to congratulate her.
The curious thing is that the socialist Lula da Silva who currently occupies the Presidency embraced capitalism and made the economy work. I would not be surprised if Brazil’s luck has run out now that they are putting a former communist guerrila in that office.
Brazil exists to make France and Greece look good.
Is she still a Marxist?
Brazil $10,000
Chile $14,600
I am sure Obama will be the first head of state to congratulate her.
You cannot be a Marxist and and exper in “High finance”, the two just dont go together.
Marxist rebels: doing what they failed to do in the 60’s.
Note the wistfully admiring tone of the first line - it says, “Why isn’t OUR Marxist leader this competent and capable.”
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.
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.”