Looking to Seal the Election for Herself Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner Gives 16 Year Olds Voting Rights
Does Obama know about this?
Argentine lawmakers approved a bill lowering the country’s voting age, a move that could rally youth support as President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner tries to revert a slide in her popularity ahead of congressional elections next year.
The lower house approved the bill in a 131-to-2 vote yesterday, converting Argentina into one of only a handful of nations where 16-year-olds can vote. The government-backed bill, which passed the Senate in early October, allows young people to cast ballots two years before voting becomes mandatory at age 18.
Fernandez has courted young voters since being elected in 2007, naming members of the government-aligned “La Campora” youth group to top positions and tapping funds from the social security agency to provide students with free laptops. Expanding the suffrage may help build support for the government even further as the opposition tries to capitalize on growing frustration with Fernandez’s handling of the economy, political analyst Carlos Fara said.
“The government believes that the more politically active young people will vote for the ruling party,” said Fara, who runs Carlos Fara & Asociados in Buenos Aires.
‘Cristina Forever’
Some of Fernandez’s youth supporters have been calling for a change in the constitution to allow Fernandez to seek a third term in 2015, carrying banners that read “Cristina Forever” at recent rallies. While Fernandez hasn’t said whether she backs such a move, her ruling Victory Front coalition would need to add seats in the mid-term elections to reach a two-thirds majority needed to change the nation’s charter.
“The 2013 elections are very important to install the possibility of changing the law to allow Fernandez to run again,” Fara said.
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Cristina should now go and do a "Lena" video all on her own too. That should jive with those teens she's trying to seduce.
"Your first time is something 'special', so you really want to do it with some one who has more 'experience'. Someone like ME. - Chao, baby!"
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= NUFF SAID
It's easy to talk shit about Cretina, a classic Latrine American, but she’s only a symptom, just like Obama. When someone so totally, glaringly WRONG for leading a country still gets put in that position, the electorate in question is seriously dysfunctional, as in DANGEROUS. Very.
The fact is, we're surrounded by people who are willing and able to do serious harm to our country and society, regardless of what they may intend or think they’re doing, and there’s little or nothing we can do to straighten them out (especially since they not only think they’re just fine but all too often think they’re superior beings). This is not only unfair but extremely frightening.
No matter how skewed the polls may be, the current race for POTUS is WAY too close from a rational, reality-based perspective, which means nearly half the voters lack or reject said perspective. This might be OK is such people’s actions only affected THEM, but that’s not how it works, meaning they CAN screw us over, and in that case, they will NEVER make it up to us. That’s how it went in Cuba and in Venezuela. At best, the guilty parties may eventually see the error of their ways, but by then it may be too late to restore the system, and it will definitely be too late to undo all kinds of harm for which, again, the guilty will NOT compensate those they effectively victimized. They will always rationalize away their responsibility or will find a suitable scapegoat.
Once you go through that kind of horrific trauma, as Cubans have, you realize you cannot trust people, not even your own, let alone foreign elements. This has an alienating effect, which is why so many people resort to denial, but that doesn’t alter reality, it just masks it. This country, alas, has seriously degenerated, and the clear signs of decadence are everywhere. Maybe it’s still not too late, but we ARE in grave danger. God help us, because we're sure as hell slipping.
But Cretina really feels Argentina's pain, just like Bill Clinton feels ours.
And yes, she thinks she looks like Angelina Jolie, only smarter.
Cretina Latrina is taking lessons from Obama on expanding her political base...
Are we sure? I thought she wanted to go down to 12 years old and run the campaign by giving out candy with her face in the wrapper?
16... She will probably give out condoms and run commercials that say "vote for a chance to win concert tickets, a scooter, and $300 worth gift card" as an incentive. The condoms will say "Yo vote, y ahora voy a tratar de singar".