On President Zardari

Just wrote this in reply to a birthday wish I got from a friend on Facebook, who mentioned that he will always remember this as the day we elected Mr. 10% as our President:

The supreme irony is that he got elected on a day that is celebrated as "Defence Day".

You and I don't have to like it, but the man--or should I say Da Man aka Maanroo Saeen--has more legal right to be President of Pakistan than Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto ever did. He might be as corrupt as his wife, Nawaz Sharif, and Imran Khan rolled into one, but he's also more politically savvy than all of them combined. Paradoxes are us, man! Democracy is messy, and all that cool stuff, what? After all, American elected--or gave 49% of the vote to--George W Bush not once but twice.

More later. I have a major project to launch this weekend.

Update: I posted a longer item on this issue later. Please do read it, too.

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