Posted on 09/25/2011 6:06:31 AM PDT by AnAmericanAbroad
Saudi King Abdullah announced on Sunday he was giving women the right to vote and run in municipal elections, the only public polls in the ultra-conservative Gulf kingdom.
(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...
Moderates who support the king will vote and have their women vote for him. Hardliners will vote or only use bombs while their women stay home.
The King gets to look like he’s moving in a direction of liberalism and democracy while improving his preferred outcome in the theoretical democratic elections they hold.
You are right about asian women. They rule the roost.
They all have drivers silly
Well, there goes the kingdom........
There's nothing in the article that says they're going to be counted........Keep the faith my brother!
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