Ukrainiana: Tymoshenko Woos Voters on 5th Anniversary of Orange Revolution

Friday, November 27, 2009

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.