I keep advising my students and friends out there that the world is watching and reading.
Then I go back to my computer and I find this hilarious post about the late Benazir’s son.
I very much doubt that he’ll become Pakistan’s leader by Dedazo after the world sees THIS BLOG POST!
Is Bilawal Bhutto Zadari the world’s first political leader with (his own) a Facebook profile?
Dedazo in Mexican Spanish means the way the Mexican Presidents are picked. Dedo in spanish means finger. If you use it to point it at someone you become his predecessor. What do I mean? It means that in Mexico every election they use what they call the Dedazo method. The current president chooses who will be the next president no matter who was elected by suffrage (votos).
In Pakistan, I suppose, what was going on was that when Bhutto was assassinated the first thing someone did was to point the finger at her son and say,
“Her Son!”
“This is the guy who will be the next Prime Minsiter.”
That, in turn, is an example of what Mexicans would call, Pakistani’s using the Dedazo system to choose their next Prime Minister.
Well, I don’t know, I own a facebook profile, this makes him, in my opinion, more human.
I think this is hilarious and all I can say is, if this picture doesn’t say 1,000 words…
May I be allowed yet another opnion?
Ok, fine. Thank you, I will. Excuse me while I…
Hi there Pakistani people.
Why not try to find the same type of guy, or even better? An average intelligent woman, a little older than Bhutto’s son, a person with a facebook profile doesn’t bother me, with defense experience…
Finally, once you have located such person, fine, use the dedazo system, but what’s this with the same family trying to stay in power?
Haven’t you learned from our Bush experience? Grandpa sells weapons to Nazi’s. Dad picks a fight with Iraq. Son starts a middle east war-like episode (congress has never declared war on iraq) that pushes the US into a mortgage crisis and recession.
Families running countries are a bad idea. I just wish there was a solution. If there were only Checks and Balances. Yawn.
Personally, if anyone in my family was even in danger because I was trying to seek power, I would definitely just move to Hawaii and start a coconut oil business. Fo Sho.