Taiwan's politicans are dorks!

Politics Taiwan Politics
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[quote=“Today’s Taipei Times”]The DPP has asked its supporters to:

  1. attend a campaign rally, dubbed “Million People High Five, Come-back Win”
  2. to wear their baseball caps backward
  3. flash the thumbs-up sign
  4. exchange high fives
  5. form a 1,000km line encircling much of Taiwan,
  6. at 3:14 pm begin a 5km march in a counter-clockwise direction to symbolize “reversing the tide” against the KMT’s dominance[/quote]

The Million People High Five Come-back Win? :laughing: :roflmao: I’m surprised they’re not also asking Taiwanese people to do the Macarena whilst taking out the garbage in green undies! :loco:

Of course, the KMT are no better - they don’t even have original wackiness - they have to borrow the DPP’s:

[quote]The KMT is holding simultaneous marches throughout the country, in which participants will wear their caps backward and exchange high fives at 3:14pm. The KMT yesterday brushed off the DPP’s criticism, saying that wearing a hat backward symbolizes an athlete’s determination to win by giving his or her last best shot.
“It is a gesture well known to sports lovers. It was not invented by the DPP,” KMT communication and cultural committee head Huang Yucheng (黃玉振) said.[/quote]

Edit: And I just noticed the DPP T-Shirts in the picture: “Yes, we can”.

Frank Xie = Barack Obama?

Sure he does! Hahahahahahaha

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The kid at the bottom in the middle seems really really happy to be there.

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Taiwan politics one of the most entertaining venues on the planet…
why 3:14 pm?

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Does this mean high fiving my students has political overtones now?

And yeah, all politicians are dorks.

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In a democracy, people get the government they deserve. God help them!

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That’s just sad.

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If all the Taiwan politicians who promised to commit suicide actually did…

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They were dorks since before the days they circled Taiwan to ululate towards China to protest the anti separatism law.

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It’s finally clear why so many Taiwanese are not “interesting in politics” (sic).

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Doesn’t the 3:14 refer to this?
china.org.cn/english/2005lh/122724.htm

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Thanks for the great laugh…this thread brought it all back for Mr. Indiana and I. We cracked up over the picture and the description of the rally. :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

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And for sure not adults that go shopping groceries in their pajamas … :noway:

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Political rallies in Taiwan are always a great entertainment. Mostly when Ma tries to speak broken Taiwanese; he only claim his Taiwanese ever since he wants to advance in his political career.

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Watching Ma’s weekend rally, I started comparing it to this scene in Ice Age 2:
youtube.com/watch?v=C3hzJKZzDXc
(sorry for the poor quality, only one I could find)

Also, remember when Chen Shui-bian was mayor and would dress up in a Superman outfit?
And when he presided over a massive tug of war contest that resulted in a few people’s arms getting torn off?

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[quote=“Lil’ Slugger”]Watching Ma’s weekend rally, I started comparing it to this scene in Ice Age 2:
youtube.com/watch?v=C3hzJKZzDXc
(sorry for the poor quality, only one I could find)

Also, remember when Chen Shui-bian was mayor and would dress up in a Superman outfit?
And when he presided over a massive tug of war contest that resulted in a few people’s arms getting torn off?[/quote]

NO WAY! I first went to Taiwan in 99–I must have missed that!

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[quote=“Lil’ Slugger”]Watching Ma’s weekend rally, I started comparing it to this scene in Ice Age 2:
youtube.com/watch?v=C3hzJKZzDXc
(sorry for the poor quality, only one I could find)

Also, remember when Chen Shui-bian was mayor and would dress up in a Superman outfit?
And when he presided over a massive tug of war contest that resulted in a few people’s arms getting torn off?[/quote]

haha, i still remember that. It was on CNN news actually.

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I don’t hope you get the politicians you deserve, cos we in Holland have got ‘Balkenende, lord of the board’

youtube.com/watch?v=zC8g2I0p … re=related

i guess every country has its classics. its not very enlightning to see what they do to get popular, i think especially having dolls made of yourself is a move that is very dorky. but hey, at least its a positive way to get some attention. Better than the slugging and smearing we’ve seen in the last weeks.