Voting Tahalof
With voting set to start in less than 8 hours, it all comes down to 4 (or less) ticks on a piece of paper to choose the next batch of politicians to lead our country for the next 4 (or less) years. I am personally going to be voting for Tahalof, as their views echo mine (in respect to the other candidates).
For those of you who are heading to the ballot box tomorrow, I leave you with a fitting quote from Thomas Sowell:
“If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves”
Posted by K.
(No more sms messages in the middle of the night, lost friends stuck at a maqar, surprise meetups in diwaniya, or endless phone calls demanding you vote for their cousin/brother/father.)
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35 Comments, add your own...
1. joud | May 17th, 2008 at 1:39 am
2 of my votes are going to ta7aluf, one to a liberal, and one to an experienced, strong, opposition advocate with good views
good luck
2. n | May 17th, 2008 at 1:51 am
tahalouf al the way :)
3. Please be | May 17th, 2008 at 1:53 am
anti-ta7alof … best of luck to bin sultan / alameeri / marzooq / almutair
4. Cat | May 17th, 2008 at 1:56 am
allah yesahel w yewafeg ele feeh el 5eer
5. Shoxin | May 17th, 2008 at 2:28 am
To be honest, there is no politician these days that has 5air in his mind, they start out thinking they’ll be the best good guys ever…
Then after sometime the money rolls in and they’ll go “I said I was going to be for the people? LOLOLOLOLOLOLOOLOL”
But anyway goodluck with your votes and hope the ones you do get are actually good, and won’t just turn on you the next day.
6. fwz247 | May 17th, 2008 at 2:55 am
good luck lil t7laouf + dr.rola inshalla yofozoon cuz ohma I think el-a7sen I good luck 4every 1 y7eb elkuwait 4real
7. crocko rock | May 17th, 2008 at 3:26 am
Wont even bother voting.
Nothing will change.
Parliament will be disbanded again shortly.
8. crocko rock | May 17th, 2008 at 3:27 am
Mark, why do my comments keep ‘awaiting moderation’ - fix it up please buddy.
9. Bo-Bader | May 17th, 2008 at 4:36 am
I just hope we don’t see any of the dinosaurs again
10. Sfsa78 | May 17th, 2008 at 5:02 am
tahalof is obviously the safest bet… Dont fall for silly speeches from the likes of m alganim, nor the sounds of hadas or salafi beard scratching propaganda of turning our country into another Saudi or Iran.
11. Sfsa78 | May 17th, 2008 at 5:07 am
by the way.. All tahalof candidates have the same agenda… They numorously asked for all their candidates to be voted for.. In order for them to make a difference they need all tahalof members because remember that in parliament its strength in numbers.
12. sold | May 17th, 2008 at 5:10 am
sold my vote for 3000, thats the best im going to get from these fakes
13. Damon Dash | May 17th, 2008 at 5:17 am
I’m proud to say that this is my third time in a row not voting and i hope the number of intelligent kuwaiti non voters increase this year until one day “hopefully” we have a Kuwait with either a real democracy or no democracy at all better than this “so called” fake democracy that we live in
14. Yousef | May 17th, 2008 at 5:29 am
Damon Dash, Don’t you think thats a bit too passive?
15. jojo | May 17th, 2008 at 7:32 am
It is simple ! HH The Ameer threw the ball in the court of the people ! We have to let him know if we care about the future of Kuwait by making our choice for the Parliament.Meaning which Kuwait do we want ? Futurestic ? Same Status-Quo or Backward ?
The choice is ours.
I vote Tahalof ,but none in my District 5 !!
Electing One or two Women for Parliamnet will definetly indicates our desire for change
16. Yazeed | May 17th, 2008 at 8:01 am
da3aya :P
17. Ansam | May 17th, 2008 at 8:13 am
Their views echo mine as well.
I hope people go and vote for the best…. I kept getting friggin text messages on my phone so I switched it off.. it was unbelievable! Ya3ni shino! TILL THE VERY LAST MIN 7ANNA!!!!!!
18. M | May 17th, 2008 at 10:02 am
TA7ALUF ALL THE WAY!!!!!!!!!
19. pearls | May 17th, 2008 at 10:24 am
I don’t know who they are?
20. Lucky_Boy | May 17th, 2008 at 11:33 am
N.D.A. all the way.
21. Lucky_Boy | May 17th, 2008 at 11:38 am
http://www.altahalof.org/2008/
Vote for their candidates in your da’era .
22. liliuokalani | May 17th, 2008 at 11:53 am
dr. rola dashti foreva!
23. Q80 BOY | May 17th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
الدائرة الاولى
القائمة الاولى و بس
صالح عاشور و أنور بو خمسين و خليل الصالح
24. crocko rock | May 17th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Elections seem to be a flop so far. Only 25% turnout heading into the Afternoon.
Hopefully this will show the world that the people of Kuwait no longer believe in their system.
25. zaydoun | May 17th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Politics on 248am.com??? What is the world coming to???!!!!!
26. Cymraeg | May 17th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
I’d vote for them for that font. What is it? (the roman characters, not the arabic).
27. Sheep | May 17th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Vote for the dudes and dudettes that are Anti-Segregation please.. We don’t want to continue to regress as a nation and for those of you who choose not to vote.. good job.. hand your country over to the corrupt and narrowminded.
28. kwt23 | May 17th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
the best (for me) out of all this stuff is wen videos on utube appear with ppl selling their votes :P
29. G-Child | May 17th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
K.
You have no right to express your voting decision on a public blog! Please save that right for your voting ballot. We don’t want to hear whom you are going to vote for. And personally I don’t agree with your choice.
30. K.theKuwaiti | May 17th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
G-Child:
Humor me .. why am I not allowed to express my voting decision?
31. M | May 17th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Altahaluf
32. Realist | May 18th, 2008 at 10:24 am
The winners have not changed much. I could say if anything, it only looks worse. I say pack your bags and be prepared for a shitty storm. All the winners might get A’s is speech class, but a majority will get F’s in everything else. Great speaches are good, but it makes no use to anyone if you really don’t understand what to do next.
You don’t need a crystal ball to know whats going to happen next, coz we’re gonna be doing this again very soon.
33. Pyython | May 18th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
When is the new parliament gonna get elected ? Heard its May 19th or something…
34. Sharm | May 18th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
seems like all the extremists made it back. No hope for us.
35. Monotheist | May 18th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
“التيارات تتراجع باستثناء السلف”
http://www.alqabas.com.kw/Final/NewspaperWebsite/NewspaperPublic/ArticlePage.aspx?ArticleID=394858
“صباح اليوم، اعلنت نتائج انتخابات مجلس الامة التي عقدت لأول مرة بنظام الدوائر الخمس، وبلغت نسبة المقترعين فيها %69، وانتهت بفوز 18 اسلاميا وخمسة شيعة و3 من التحالف الوطني الديموقراطي و3 من الحركة الدستورية الاسلامية و4 من السلف.
”
http://alwatan.com.kw/Default.aspx?MgDid=630239&pageId=26
“فوز كاسح للإسلاميين بانتخابات الكويت والمرأة تفشل مجددا”
“الإسلاميون السنة والشيعة فازوا بأكثر من نصف مقاعد البرلمان (الفرنسية)”
http://aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/F5BD6542-BF47-4A71-8DDA-2266A3ECEA0F.htm
Ah, what a beautiful day. All in all, Islamists won like what, 25 seats? I haven’t counted them yet myself, but I’m told they’re now half of parliament, give or take. Now that the people of Kuwait have spoken yet again, I’ll wait for the amusing moaning and whining about how “those people don’t represent Kuwait.” At the end of the day, talk is always cheap and votes speak louder than words. Twenty five, five, or two and a half electoral districts; it doesn’t matter. There’s no stopping the monstrous Islamist candidacy machine with its robust voting base.
All praise is due to God, by whose blessing all good is acomplished :)
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