Obama: Myanmar election was neither free nor fair

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JAKARTA | Tue Nov 9, 2010 7:08am EST

JAKARTA (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that Myanmar's election, won by the country's biggest military-backed party, was neither free nor fair.

Obama was speaking alongside Indonesia's president at the start of a 20-hour visit to the country.

On Monday, Obama said Myanmar's military had stolen Sunday's election, the first for 20 years in the Southeast Asian country.

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Btok wrote:
Barak Obama, aka; Barry Soetoro an adopted Indonesian citizen, whose natural father was from Kenya, thereby his father being a British citizen -

Seems to be very concerned about fraud be practiced in foreign countries during elections in Myanmar, however, he has no concern, what so ever, about fraud being carried out in the United States in the state of Nevada and Colorado, by illegal tampering of the voting computers!

This fraud concerned Harry Reid of the Democrat party and the Democrat Representative in Colorado to gain extra votes to beat the Republican candidate Sharron Angle and the Colorado Independent candidate from defeating the Democrat competitors, while the Rasmussen Polls, which are very accurate was showing a high lead in the running for the Republican and independent candidate!

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Nov 09, 2010 8:34pm EST  --  Report as abuse
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