Justin E.H. Smith at 3quarksdaily reports that the leading Byelorussian newspaper has come out in support of Sen. Obama.

The Belaruskija Naviny had this to say about Obama’s rival:

Even in Soviet times we had saying: “The Woman: it is also Person!”  In Belarus, we have many women in political offices… In Belarus, we are not afraid of a woman in place of power.  Now Hillary Clinton had eight years already in White House.  During that time, she set herself one goal: the creation of new polyclinics throughout America, for the promotion of health and hygiene, from Poultry Processing Plant “John Tyson” in State Missouri to High Technology Cybernetics Park “Bill Gates” in State Washington, to public high school “Martin Luther King” in City Oakland.  But how many polyclinics emerged from her time in the White House? There are no more polyclinics in America now than during Great Depression. Instead Clinton left America with the “health’s management organizations,” with queues of length we have not seen in Belarus since Great War for Fatherland, and costs that are sure to make any patient “sick.” Americans should be asking to Candidate Clinton: where are the polyclinics?  Where can I go for antibiotics or a mustard plaster when I fall ill?  Where can I go to pasteurize my children?

Indeed. Where can I go for a mustard plaster when I fall ill? This is a question I ask myself daily.

I’m not usually a fan of Borat-style humor, but Justin Smith is a better writer than Sascha Baron-Cohen. You can find more of Smith’s writing here. Kind of Will Self meets Franz Kafka meets something else.

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