Tymoshenko Equates Herself With Ukraine (Part 4)

She just can’t get enough of mixing her feminine mystique with her “L’Etat, c’est Moi” ideology.

PM/presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko: She’s with those who take a step forward. She’s with those who save people. She’s with those who can love. She’s with those who can forgive. She’s with those who love life. She takes pride in those who can be really strong. She’s with those who always reach their goals. She will win. She is Ukraine.

You mean she’s not with those who plunder, squander, divert, consort, extort, murder, hit-and-run, take bribes, quadruple-charge, rig, sell out and depopulate?

“She’s being raped and yet she’s working” represents what country?

You promised to bring those quadruple-charging intermediary crooks to justice. Where are they? Are they going to jail or to your birthday party?

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Tymoshenko Woos Voters on 5th Anniversary of Orange Revolution

She puts on another vyshyvanka, wallows in people's pain and admits no wrongdoing. She sounds like an advance-fee fraud letter.

The Cinderella of the Orange Revolution wants a second chance. Wait, a third one! Oh, no, a fourth one! (depending on how many times you voted for her)

She waxes inspirational and nostalgic;
She talks about faith and freedom;
She says she knows people who spoke Ukrainian for the first time on Maidan;
She says she knows people who sang the Ukrainian anthem with their hands over their hearts for the first time;
(She definitely doesn’t know anyone who’d laugh at Putin’s jokes degrading Ukraine’s statehood);
She reaches across the aisle to Yanukovych supporters who, too, craved freedom;
She blames those who betrayed the Orange Revolution;
(She doesn’t blame herself);
She tells us not to feel sorry for the Orange Revolution;
She promises to do it all over again if she has to;
She recalls Natalia Dmytruk, police cadets, volunteers and two young protesters, from Donetsk and Lviv, who got married during the Orange Revolution;
She makes fun of Yanukovych’s jail record and likens him to a bruised and battered dog named Lucky;
She reminds us that freedom is worth the fight;
She says there will be no going back to the oligarch past if she wins;

She won’t let it happen.

Happy Freedom Day!

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Yushchenko Regrets Mistakes, Talks Freedom, Justice, Patriotism

Damn, he almost made me trust him again!

Incumbent President Yushchenko: We’ve come a long way and we’ve been through a lot. We didn’t walk on water, nor did we walk on sunshine. There are achievements and there are mistakes. They’re hurting me. I’m a Ukrainian, a citizen, and, just like you, I’m a free person. Jockeying for power is not the meaning of my life. The meaning of my life is Ukraine. The meaning of my life is freedom. Freedom is like the sun: an ordinary wonder. You notice it when you lose it, when it’s gone. I want to forever preserve freedom for all of us. I want to forever preserve our state. I want to forever set fair and equal rules — for all. That’s why I’m running. I’m aware of the purpose. My choice has been made. Your choice will be made by you — because even now everything depends on us only. We must forge ahead. We cannot stop, lest our children, grandchildren and grand-grandchildren start over again. I choose a free, strong and just Ukraine. We’ll make it. And Ukraine will win.

Good point about taking freedom for granted!

So far, we’ve only gained freedom of speech. It’s a lot. But not enough.

We haven’t gained much economic freedom, nor have we gained freedom from corruption and injustice, freedom from social and geopolitical insecurity.

No matter how high a mountain you climb, actions speak louder than words.

If you could put a dozen thugs behind bars and lose the key, maybe we could trust you again.

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Another Brawl in the Rada

Both claim they care about the people. One claims he cares more than the other.

Both belong to a caste that loves Ukraine at a rate of $40K per year (10 times Ukraine’s nominal GDP per capita) and change.

For them, change means millions of dollars worth of “unexplained money” that buys them luxury cars, watches, mansions, etc.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome MP Vladyslav Lukyanov (PRU) and his partner-in-loving-Ukraine MP Oleh Lyashko (BYuT)!



It all began Thursday morning with a routine tie-grabbing brawl, featuring Lukyanov and Lyashko. (Putin clearly missed out on this one.)

Lukyanov then used the occasion to criticize the Tymoshenko government’s refusal to raise pensions, a cause championed by the Party of Regions and President Yushchenko.

Using Lyashko’s battle-scarred tie as an illustration of Ukraine’s giant income distribution gap, Lukyanov led the emotional charge. Ukraine’s average monthly pension — Hr. 680 ($85) — pales by comparison to Lyashko’s tie, worth Hr. 3,000 ($375), Lukyanov hollered.

That’s the price quote that Lukyanov said he had heard from Lyashko in private.

Lukyanov claims to be the proud owner of an $11 tie, which he bought in Japan. Meanwhile, Lyashko argues that his tie costs about Hr. 500 ($63).

Go figure.

Sources:
http://pravda.com.ua/news/2009/11/19/105590.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdy8gGbC790

Putin Refers to Holodomor Memorial as ‘Someplace,’ Jokes About Yushchenko-Saakashvili Meeting

Two high-level/high-humor meetings took place in Ukraine on Thursday.

When Yushchenko met with Saakashvili in Kyiv, he spoke Ukrainian and misspelled Medvedev’s first name and patronymic as Анатолій Дмитрович (Anatoly Dmytrovych).

In Russian, that would be Анатолий Дмитриевич (Anatoly Dmitriyevich), an ass-backwards version of Дмитрий Анатольевич (Dmitry Anatolyevich).

Ukrainian President Yushchenko: Today, I made an appeal to the Russian President, Анатолій Дмитрович [Anatoly Dmytrovych]...uh...that they [gas agreements] be reviewed and canceled because their motive is not based on organizing symmetric market relations of two businesses regarding the issue at hand.

Spokeswoman Iryna Vannykova: Mr. President, you misspoke slightly. You said Анатолій Дмитрович [Anatoly Dmytrovych] when you should have said Дмитро Анатолійович [Dmytro Anatoliyovych]. I don’t know if it’s worth telling you...

Yushchenko: Oh...
Vannykova [to Yushchenko]: OK, let’s wrap it up then.

Vannykova [to reporters]: OK, colleagues, thank you! The press conference is over. Thanks!

For some reason, Yushchenko chose not to correct himself even after his whispering spokeswoman quickly approached him about it.

When Tymoshenko met with Putin in Yalta, Crimea, Ukraine, later in the day, the two spoke Russian.

Putin didn’t behave like a guest. He behaved like a czar. And Tymoshenko behaved like his sweetheart.

Asked about Yushchenko and Saakashvili — and their pilgrimage to the Holodomor Memorial in Kyiv — Putin paraded his sense of Berlusconi 2.0 humor.

Poking fun at Yushchenko’s support of Saakashvili in the Russia-Georgia of 2008, Putin built a cascade of jokes. One of them even had a Pushkin quote interpolated into it.

Putin’s joke about the danger that Saakashvili and his nervous tie-munching behavior could pose to Yushchenko elicited an outburst of laughter and admiration from Tymoshenko. See for yourself.

Russian PM Vladimir Putin: Uh...what our colleagues were doing, I have no idea, but I think that...uh...two presidents always have things to talk about: to discuss somethin', to go someplace* [smiles]: “The warriors recalled their days bygone, and all the battles they never won.”** Maybe that was that [audience explodes with laughter]. We...we’re going together to...we’re now going to...to a dinner...my colleague has invited me...to...I’d say we’ll be talking about...about Chekhov. Well...that’s it, I guess. Oh yes, what else can I advise and recommend? Uh...the two presidents would better have their dinner — should they have dinner — with their ties off.*** Ties cost a lot now. Times are tough...you know what I’m talking about [audience explodes with laughter].

Ukrainian PM Yulia Tymoshenko [gets excited, addresses Putin by patronymic]: Vladimirovich, I definitely can have dinner with my tie off!

Putin: Yep!
Tymoshenko: Hahaha!

Putin: Ha, lest the guests will...gobble up Yushchenko’s tie!

*Reflects on Yushchenko and Saakashvili visiting the Holodomor Memorial, an issue in the reporter's question;

**Quotes from Alexander Pushkin’s The Song of Oleg the Wise [verse translation mine];

***Refers to Saakashvili’s tie-munching behavior.

Bravo! This comes as a sequel to the famous “mazurik” joke that Putin cracked about Yushchenko while meeting with Tymoshenko in Moscow in October 2008.

Putin and Tymoshenko should finally coin the term humor diplomacy.

Let's say Merkel goes to Russia and takes a pot shot at the Siege of Leningrad and the million of Russians who perished in the famine. Meanwhile, Hu goes to New York, Washington or Jerusalem and pokes fun at 9/11 and the Holocaust. How's that for a start?

Oh, by the way, Mr. Putin, thank you for your generosity! It’s a huge relief you won’t fine Ukraine based on those whorrible “we take, you pay” terms of the gas deal that you and Tymoshenko had signed last January.

You may now take off your tie and take your sweetheart to the finest restaurant in town.

Make yourself at home!

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Tymoshenko Makes Another Revelation

They’re monsters. She’s just an innocent girl.

PM Yulia Tymoshenko: I understood how, for many years, the country has been ripped off, how those miserly pennies have been taken away from the budget — one that’s barely making both ends meet for the healthcare system — and how, at egregiously overblown prices, medical equipment and medications have been procured.

And you've never been on a rip-off team of your own?

You've never been this country's Member of Parliament and leader of a 153-strong parliamentary faction?

You’ve never been this country’s Prime Minister either, right?

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Tymoshenko Blasts Yushchenko for Calling Her ‘Hobo’

When Yushchenko called her “hobo,” he meant her incredibly humble tax returns.

When she returned the courtesy, she used the word tyrit (тырить — Russian slang/Putin-speak for steal).

Putin uses tyrit to describe what he calls Ukraine’s theft of Russian gas — every time Gazprom cuts off gas supplies.

PM Yulia Tymoshenko: I was surprised when I saw in the President’s tax returns some 13 hectares [32 acres] of newly acquired land in Bezradychi, Kyiv. I, too, think that, perhaps compared to the President, I look like a hobo, because I haven’t snitched a single plot of government land while working as Prime Minister.

What about your associates? What about buying Tamiflu from that quadruple-charging intermediary that caused shortages and contributed to deaths?

I voted for you three times: in 2006, 2007 and 2008.

Why can’t you say “I’m not a crook” without lapsing into Putinese: dictatorship of law, tyrit, what’s next?

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Yanukovych Travels, Tymoshenko Talks

As Tymoshenko blames Yushchenko for every flu death, and he calls her “hobo” (referring to her incredibly humble tax returns), Yanukovych continues his roadshow.

At a children’s hospital in Yevpatoria, he traded a cardiac monitor for a thank-you painting of a local landscape.

Presidential candidate Yanukovych: What do you call this device?
Hospital personnel: Cardiac tomograph.

Yanukovych: Cardiac...?
Personnel: Monitor!

Yanukovych: Cardiac monitor. Do you need a cardiac monitor?
Personnel: Of course! Badly! Hahaha!

Personnel: Here you go, so you can look at it periodically and recall being in a good workplace, where good people live, in a good city.

I love that Sainsbury’s: Where good food costs less plastic bag!

How about this one: Yanukovych’s: Where his life tastes good and your life costs less?

Tymoshenko has a roadshow of her own, but she can't get her numbers straight.

PM Tymoshenko, Vinnytsya, Nov. 10: Yesterday, when we looked at the data for every oblast, we saw that in Ukraine, on the whole, we have at least a fourfold drop in illness incidence compared to the peak dates of November 2-4.

Tymoshenko, Kyiv, Nov. 11: From November 8 to November 10, we see the figures rise...uh...almost threefold...well, more than two-and-a-half fold. This suggests that the epidemic today is not relaxing its grip.

The only way for the epidemic to relax its grip is for you guys to embrace our healthcare.

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