Big Putin election win, U.S. urges fraud probe

[Joanne98]

Source: Reuters

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin won a big endorsement in a parliamentary election on Sunday but the United States urged Moscow to investigate opposition charges of widespread fraud.

First official results showed Putin's United Russia with over 60 percent of the vote -- an outcome likely to be seen by the Kremlin as a strong mandate for Putin to maintain a position of influence after his final presidential term ends next year.

"The overwhelming majority of Russian voters spoke in favor of United Russia, thus supporting President Putin's course, and spoke in favor of it being continued after the current president's second term ends," a Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told Reuters after early results came in.

Election monitors reported widespread cases of ballot fraud, and the Communist Party, which is likely to be the biggest opposition force in the next parliament, said it would contest the election in the courts.



Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSL3027999020071202

[boricua79]

1. "U.S. urges fraud probe" - Operation Pliers at work

Hey Bush, what do you see in Putin's soul now, asswipe!

[LakeSamish706]

2. Isn't that just F*** amazing... The fraud master himself looking at another countries...

election results with an eye toward fraud.... That is so beyond belief....

[spotbird]

12. Projection

They think everyone is just like them.

[Supersedeas]

24. this Admin oozes with irony

[gateley]

3. Irony? The U.S. urges fraud probe? nt

[FarCenter]

4. Fraud? Probably -- I thought that the Communists and Fascist parties should have done better

[Joanne98]

8. It's amazing how they always end up supporting each other...

Just like in China! lol

[City Lights]

5. Pot, meet kettle.

Bush, of all people, should know a cheater when he sees one!

[tom_paine]

6. "U.S. (sic) urges fraud probe." I had to see it for myself to believe it.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Demeter]

7. Irony Is Dead. How Can Bush Even Think of Saying Such Things in Public?

Has he no shame, no sense of embarassment?

[LakeSamish706]

10. He hasn't shown any to date that I've been aware of... Just more of the same. n/t

[olddad56]

25. it's Orwellian doublespeak, he meant, nice job Putin, glad I could help.

[mtnester]

9. Did I wake up in bizarro world?

I must have

[Harmonicaman]

11. "Hello Kettle",

Its me Pot, I have something to tell you... you are black

[Bitwit1234]

13. Bush!! Urges fraud alert...guess he has a lot of experience in that.

[acmavm]

14. Dammit! My ironometer just blew up.

[pscot]

16. I had mine rewired

with 12 guage copper. Of course, it now takes up the entire front hall closet.

[acmavm]

18. Hee hee!

[ixion]

15. Because it takes a fraud to know a fraud

and the US is now the biggest fraud in the business. :(

[cliss]

17. Washington ALWAYS endorses cheating.

As long as it favors them.

[JustAnotherGen]

19. You know what?

I'm embarrassed traveling abroad at the joke OUR elections have become. The world WATCHED. And they laughed at us. As well they should.

How dare we issue that kind of bullshit? And how dare we tell another country what to do?

[Strelnikov_]

20. CNN/Amanpour Reports: Czar Putin

CNN Rebroadcast – Sun. Dec.2, 10:00 P.M. Eastern

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2385719&mesg_id=2385719

[JustAnotherGen]

21. Oh - Wait!

Doh! Guilty much President Numnuts? Of course they cheated - Bush doesn't know much . . . but he certainly knows 'election fraud' and how to be a lying cheat.

[PATRICK]

22. So much irony so much fraud

Anyone miss the fact that we are abcking the COMMUNIST Party in this righteous cause? how about that fro democratic principles? So the party that rode its own wave of anti-communist witch hunts in the fifties has matured into a rabid right wing fascist cult that supports communism in liberated Russia and sells our treasury to the Red Chinese, lets nuclear NK off the hook and is scheming fruitlessly still about crushing socialism in South America.

This must be the foreign policy equivalent of Realpedophilia.

[Union Thug]

23. That's rich. US elections are so credible, after all. n/t

[Arugula Latte]

26. That was the phrase that popped into my head:

"Oh, that's rich"

[rockybelt]

27. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black! n/t

[GoddessOfGuinness]

28. Really...I'm surprised Dumbyass didn't win.

The Thugs must be losing their touch.

[pinniped]

29. Putin to US, fuck off.

.

[TheLastMohican]

30. Someone should get out of the matrix

Putin is genuinely popular in Russia, so whatever party he supports will get the most seats.
Take the blue pill guys.