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Zimbabwe's ruling party backs Mugabe, 92, for 2018 election
Associated Press ^ | Dec 17, 2016 11:09 AM EST | Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi

Posted on 12/17/2016 4:52:03 PM PST by Olog-hai

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, who turns 93 in February, was endorsed on Saturday as the ruling party’s candidate in a national election scheduled for 2018.

The ruling ZANU-PF party announced its support in the southeast town of Masvingo, where the party’s youth wing even proposed that Mugabe should rule for life with broad powers.

Opposition groups have described such adulation as a sign that Mugabe and his loyalists are out of touch with the desperation of a nation that is suffering massive unemployment, cash shortages and company closures. …

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: communism; mugabe; zanupf; zimbabwe
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1 posted on 12/17/2016 4:52:03 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Hes ONLY 92?


2 posted on 12/17/2016 4:54:08 PM PST by Husker24
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To: Husker24

After we build our wall a wall should be built around this insane country.


3 posted on 12/17/2016 4:56:07 PM PST by mowowie (Press 2 for Deportation)
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To: Olog-hai

You can’t fix stupid!


4 posted on 12/17/2016 4:56:56 PM PST by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: Olog-hai

Sieg Heil!

They might as well say it because that’s what it is.

Now, we’ve got this Obama dude that’s gonna need a new job come January 20.......


5 posted on 12/17/2016 4:57:33 PM PST by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: Husker24

He is now the oldest reigning “head of state” of a country and second longest serving (1980).

Queen Elizabeth is second oldest and longest serving head of state.


6 posted on 12/17/2016 5:02:05 PM PST by Steven Scharf
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To: Olog-hai

But at least the isn’t the evil racist Ian Smith/ sarc.....

There was a joke going about amidst the starvation and inflation going on in his country several years ago (just like it is in Venezuela today).

Robert Mugabe had changed the name of the country to “Zim-Bob-Me”........


7 posted on 12/17/2016 5:12:27 PM PST by Nextrush (Freedom is everybody's business: Remember Pastor Niemoller)
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To: Steven Scharf

When it was Rhodeisa it was doing great under British rule. Exporting farm goods and mining products. Then the leftists took over.


8 posted on 12/17/2016 5:14:52 PM PST by stubernx98 (cranky, but reasonable)
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To: Nextrush

Fitting.


9 posted on 12/17/2016 5:28:29 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (****happy dance**** BIGLY!!!!)
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To: Olog-hai

4 years from now the Democrats will be dusting off Uncle Joe and Bernie for another go at it.


10 posted on 12/17/2016 5:36:37 PM PST by LukeL
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To: Olog-hai

He has to stay in power to become a quintillionaire again.


11 posted on 12/17/2016 5:45:45 PM PST by KarlInOhio (" T'was the witch of November come stealin' " And who could the stealing Witch of November be? Hmm?)
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To: Olog-hai
It's clear that life-extending measures have been perfected for the uber-rich.

Soros may be YOUNG at 'only 86'.

12 posted on 12/17/2016 5:47:46 PM PST by Lazamataz (TRUMP LIED TO ME!!!! ....He said I'd get sick of winning.... AND I'M NOT SICK OF WINNING YET!!!!)
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To: Lazamataz

I was gonna ask if he and Soros have any flights or parties coming up together!


13 posted on 12/17/2016 6:09:14 PM PST by GnuThere
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To: Olog-hai

Maybe the opposition should ask ‘a youthful’ Hillary to run against Robert.


14 posted on 12/17/2016 6:10:11 PM PST by ConservaTeen (Islam is Not the Religion of Peace, but The religion of Pedophilia...)
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To: Olog-hai

C’mon 2016. You can do one more.


15 posted on 12/17/2016 6:46:00 PM PST by kallisti (Both soliloquized alternately and imagined they were conversing)
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To: Olog-hai

MZRA! (Make Zimbabwe Rhodesia Again)


16 posted on 12/17/2016 6:50:26 PM PST by PLMerite (Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen.)
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To: Olog-hai

Only the good die young.


17 posted on 12/17/2016 7:39:05 PM PST by Rusty0604
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To: Olog-hai

ooga booga


18 posted on 12/17/2016 7:50:57 PM PST by Ammo Republic 15
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To: Olog-hai
of course they do... they are all getting rich without any of the danger of getting killed
19 posted on 12/17/2016 9:34:22 PM PST by Chode (You Owe Them Nothing - Not Respect, Not Loyalty, Not Obedience, NOTHING! ich bin ein Deplorable...)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; GOPsterinMA

Prediction, Mugabe will be on the 2020 dem ticket.


20 posted on 12/18/2016 8:18:27 PM PST by Impy (Toni Preckwinkle for Ambassador to the Sun)
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