Today's extraordinary quote of the day comes via Alex Massie. I give you: Robert Mugabe's acceptance of his party's endorsement in Zimbabwe's elections.
"Every one of them matters to me. Can I let them down?" AP news agency quotes Mr Mugabe as saying during his keynote address to delegates before his endorsement."No. Their welfare is my welfare. Their suffering is my suffering. I dare not abandon them," he said.
No. Their welfare is my welfare. Their suffering is my suffering. I dare not abandon them.
So he's making monthly trips to South Africa to buy the staples that Zimbabwean stores have long stopped stocking?
Did he lift that speech from "Moon Over Parador?" It sure sounds familiar...
That was a fun movie, by the way.
"Their suffering is my suffering"
I never knew he was a masochist.