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In reply to the discussion: Leaked phone calls: Capriles just wanted to make a scandal [View all]joshcryer
(62,536 posts)77. The votes.
The only way for Capriles to be punished according to his crime is to count the votes, at which point he will be politically neutered and no one will fight for him (that is, the instability will end). Correa agrees with me.
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" this is his own operation... to keep the interest of his voters" "he has to make a scandal"
Catherina
Apr 2013
#1
Proabably the same thing would have happened if Bush & Cheney had been arrested
Doctor_J
Apr 2013
#28
Who's going to apologize to her that her grandson was shot in the head for a "scandal"?
Catherina
Apr 2013
#8
It definitely seems that way. It has the unsettling feeling of a return to the old
sabrina 1
Apr 2013
#72
Since Capriles seems to already know he has lost - what is the point of a recount?
djean111
Apr 2013
#12
They've been exposed, now watch the twisted, pretzel logic we will hear from the right wing
sabrina 1
Apr 2013
#81
Thank you. I wonder if the poster themselves would like to translate, instead of hiding.
idwiyo
Apr 2013
#48
shit eater would be the literal translation but not the meaning of the expression itself n/t
Bacchus4.0
Apr 2013
#51
Bullshit. But it's clear you were looking in the mirror when you said it. n/t
Catherina
Apr 2013
#73
Excellent comment, Catherina. I am happy though to see Caprilles finally exposed for what he is.
sabrina 1
Apr 2013
#82
I never asked you, but do you think fraud allegations should be looked at by CNE?
joshcryer
Apr 2013
#20
"Birther' leader Orly Taitz ordered by Supreme Court to pay $20,000 fine for 'frivolous' lawsuit"
Zorra
Apr 2013
#54
The fact is, most of us know that corporatists are always going to use any means possible
Zorra
Apr 2013
#63
Well, that's what happens when you ask me a question before I have coffee at 6 am.
Starry Messenger
Apr 2013
#100
We shouldn't be surprised. Capriles is basically a Ven version of the Koch brothers
Exultant Democracy
Apr 2013
#21
He may have learned a lot from his wife, Teresa, who inherited her former husbands Heinz Ketchup.
Judi Lynn
Apr 2013
#96
Kind of tired of the choice being presented as either Stalin or Hitler...
Spitfire of ATJ
Apr 2013
#61
Our MEDIA does that. To them it's all about the leader, not the cause....
Spitfire of ATJ
Apr 2013
#70
You know as well as I do most people in Central and South America don't participate...
Spitfire of ATJ
Apr 2013
#78
We're talking about an exposed 'fraud'. That fraud is committed by PEOPLE necessitates
sabrina 1
Apr 2013
#85