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Rousseff faces runoff in Brazil election
reuters ^ | 10.03.10

Posted on 10/03/2010 5:43:48 PM PDT by Perdogg

Ruling party candidate Dilma Rousseff placed a strong first in Brazil's presidential election on Sunday, but a runoff looked inevitable after some voters were turned off at the last minute by a corruption scandal and her views on social issues

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brasil; brazil; dilmarousseff; rousseff; who

1 posted on 10/03/2010 5:43:52 PM PDT by Perdogg
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To: Perdogg
She seems charming.


2 posted on 10/03/2010 6:06:17 PM PDT by tlb
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To: Perdogg; AdmSmith; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; blueyon; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks Perdogg and nuconvert.

Brazilians voting to replace popular leader Silva
Yahoo/AP
Posted on 10/03/2010 10:32:18 AM PDT by nuconvert
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2600813/posts


3 posted on 10/03/2010 6:07:53 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Democratic Underground... matters are worse, as their latest fund drive has come up short...)
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To: Perdogg

Well, all the earlier reports said that this was a done deal. She may still win, but at least the voters get another chance.

Brazil is a big country, economically important. The last thing we need is a Commie dictator bringing down its economy and stirring up still more trouble in South America.


4 posted on 10/03/2010 6:10:38 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius.)
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To: Perdogg

This Marxist, abortion-loving bitch must be stopped on Halloween


5 posted on 10/03/2010 6:14:48 PM PDT by montag813 (http://www.facebook.com/StandWithArizona)
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To: Cicero

She is actually “right-of-Lula”


6 posted on 10/03/2010 6:17:54 PM PDT by Perdogg (Nancy Pelosi did more damage to America on 03/21 than Al Qaeda did on 09/11)
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To: Perdogg

It’s very dispiriting. I think Joseph Conrad’s greatest novel—although I admire all of them—is Nostromo. Among other things, it vividly portrays how a typical Latin American country oscillate from right-wing dictators to left-wing dictators. The people get these terrible enthusiasms, lurch first one way and then the other, and go from one disaster to the next.

Even if it doesn’t threaten us directly, it’s still disturbing to watch this pattern working out once again.

Conrad wrote Nostromo more than a hundred years ago, but it’s still going on, the same as ever.


7 posted on 10/03/2010 6:43:50 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Will the runoff help concentrate forces to stop her ?


8 posted on 10/03/2010 7:04:16 PM PDT by ncalburt (Even)
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To: ncalburt

If we’d develop our own known energy resources (and allow exploration for more), we would no longer have any issues with Brazil, or OPEC nations like Venezuela. Thanks ncalburt.


9 posted on 10/03/2010 7:45:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Democratic Underground... matters are worse, as their latest fund drive has come up short...)
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To: montag813
This Marxist, abortion-loving bitch must be stopped on Halloween
We don't vote until November 2nd.
 
10 posted on 10/03/2010 9:08:13 PM PDT by counterpunch (End the Government Monopoly!)
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To: tlb

she’s telling the public where they stand


11 posted on 10/03/2010 9:51:21 PM PDT by Enchante ("The great enemy of clear language is insincerity." -- George Orwell --)
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To: counterpunch
We don't vote until November 2nd.

Brazil's runoff is on Halloween

12 posted on 10/03/2010 10:27:58 PM PDT by montag813 (http://www.facebook.com/StandWithArizona)
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To: montag813

Yeah, I saw “Marxist, abortion-loving bitch” and assumed you were talking about Nanzi Pelosi.


13 posted on 10/03/2010 10:32:37 PM PDT by counterpunch (End the Government Monopoly!)
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