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Maradona declares devotion to Cristina, as he did to all previous presidents

Wednesday, January 16th 2013 - 06:15 UTC
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Diego Maradona came on stage in the United Arab Emirates to defend President Cristina Fernández saying that “all Argentines must be proud of the government we have” and attacked some members of the opposition arguing they “can’t even cook a decent stew”. Read full article

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  • Boovis

    In a democracy, following your leader or supporting them is only presumed if you actually support their viewpoints and policies. To support a leader blindly, irrelevant of their policies, just makes you a sycophant and a malleable lapdog. He's pretty pathetic.
    Viva La Junta, indeed.

    Jan 16th, 2013 - 06:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Anglotino

    Someone likes to stay in the spotlight!

    I'm sure the next president will find he is devoted to them too.

    As for knowing how to make soup..... well we all know who knows how to eat it, that's for sure.

    Jan 16th, 2013 - 07:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • toooldtodieyoung

    look at them both!!! cheats always stick together...

    Then again, that is exactly what they are.... cheats!!

    Jan 16th, 2013 - 07:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ElaineB

    Who honestly cares what a fat, cheating, drug addict, who can't hold down a job without having a hissy fit and flouncing off, thinks about anything? Did he think before attacking the rich when he was standing next to one of the richest women in Argentina? He is ten IQ points short of a moron.

    Jan 16th, 2013 - 09:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Rufus

    “All hail [insert name here]”

    Oh dear...

    Jan 16th, 2013 - 09:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Shed-time

    Has he paid his debts (taxes in italy) yet? Has she paid her debts yet? What do these two have to celebrate other than hiding from their debts?

    Jan 16th, 2013 - 09:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ElaineB

    I am not sure if he paid his debts in Italy. The last time he visited they stopped him at the airport and confiscated the diamond earrings he was wearing in lieu of payment . They have so much in common; both dodging the bailiffs; both an embarrassment to Argentina.

    Jan 16th, 2013 - 11:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Gordo1

    Clarín, when reporting this item, also carried another piece about Maradona. He is alleged to have said that he would not be returning to Argentina because “ es una mierda”.

    Strange!

    Jan 16th, 2013 - 12:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Steveu

    Such support is not to be sniffed at - or should I say “snorted”

    Jan 16th, 2013 - 01:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ElaineB

    He was just there for the free food.

    Jan 16th, 2013 - 01:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Shed-time

    And now for a parable about a man who had to 'Sing for his dinner'

    Jan 16th, 2013 - 01:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Britworker

    Yawn, thought he was dead?

    Jan 16th, 2013 - 01:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Britninja

    Did he win the pie-eating contest against Maximo?

    Jan 16th, 2013 - 02:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Conqueror

    One bit of lying, thieving, cheating scum-shit supporting another! No news here.

    Jan 16th, 2013 - 03:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • andy65

    What a wonderful endorsement-would you really want this THING sat at your side singing your praises???

    Jan 16th, 2013 - 03:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Optimus_Princeps

    @10 It works for the La Campora scumbags.

    Jan 16th, 2013 - 05:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Shed-time

    @16 did la campora give him one of those Buy-a-vote bags as a take-away following the clarin witch hunt photo?

    Jan 16th, 2013 - 06:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • briton

    twit , twot , and twat.
    the crooked hand of ?O? rises again,

    Jan 16th, 2013 - 07:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Terence Hill

    A liar and a cheat, now there's a marriage made in heaven.

    Jan 16th, 2013 - 11:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • briton

    Caesar once said,
    Friends who stab you in the back can never be trusted,
    A pity then he never took his own advice,

    CFK and the Argentina government cannot be trusted.

    [ extra extra extra,]]
    HMS Queen Elizabeth’s forward island,
    Ready to sail from Portsmouth to Rosyth

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/qeclasscarriers/8386967736/
    and
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/qeclasscarriers/8386967736/

    .please enjoy,
    CFK and Marydoonakebab ...

    Jan 16th, 2013 - 11:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Pirat-Hunter

    We Argetines love CFK because she knows how to deal with pirates. We support her 100% because she doesn't murder other presidents nor does she murder innocent Muslim women and children, like some people, do you all know who some people is? Well you all know who some people is right?
    http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_64333.shtml
    www.fihplc.com/index.php?section=0

    Jan 16th, 2013 - 11:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • commonsparrow

    He'll do fine in Iraq.
    http://www.foxsports.com.au/football/argentina-icon-maradona-to-become-coach-of-iraq-national-team-according-to-argentinian-sources/story-e6frf423-1226541570766

    Jan 17th, 2013 - 01:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Musky

    #21
    You love her because she does not recognise human rights of islanders or indigenous americans. Because she steals foreign companies, insults britaon and her war dead. Because she falsifies her nations financial status and lets militant groups attack shipping offices. She's a nasty bunny boiler.

    Jan 17th, 2013 - 06:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Gordo1

    Pirat Hunter - La Kretina allows the indigenous peoples of the stolen territory of Argentina to be murdered for racial reasons, she permits people to starve to death because they just do not have any money to buy food, she steals and robs from the Argentine people amongst other things.

    She also perpetuates the lies and fairy stories about the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands - but then she is a paragon of virtue, isn't she?

    Jan 17th, 2013 - 10:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Mendoza Canadian

    Pirat...We support her 100% because she doesn't murder other presidents nor does she murder innocent Muslim women and children, like some people, do ...and she could give a rats ass about the Argentinians who were killed in the Amia bombing in BsAs.

    Jan 17th, 2013 - 10:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • andy65

    ALLL Argentines are scumbags murderers you kill eachother throw eachother from planes

    THE DISSAPEARD

    Jan 17th, 2013 - 12:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • British_Kirchnerist

    While I don't like Menem because of his neoliberalism, it seems Maradonna's personal reasons for backing him are sound. And politically he was never a full supporter as he didn't back his party's candidate in 1998, as the article says. And while the article mentions ALL previous Presidents, the only quotes it can find on President Duhalde are negative, and indeed the only support he seems to have given President de la Rua was to prefer him over Duhalde! So not quite the unthinking nationalist steryotypicla Argie the title might have suggested! And great to hear him coming out against Clarin =) Lovely picture of Cristina btw =)

    Jan 17th, 2013 - 01:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • briton

    21 Pirat-Hunter
    She doesn't murder other presidents like the British,

    [Name One]

    .

    Jan 17th, 2013 - 07:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • surfer

    How can people like BK and PH be so proud to be such unquestioning sycophants. Perhaps because their savings are in sterling and dollars...

    Especially BK with his/her skin crawling, drooling devotion to the Argentine President, not healthy at all.

    Jan 17th, 2013 - 11:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GeoffWard2

    Muslim UAE
    - even Maradona could not use a Muslim country to declare Cristina as the Daughter of God, Defender of the True Faith, and the Inheritor of Chavenzian Bolivarism.

    The game of Iconism is unfolding ...

    Jan 18th, 2013 - 10:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • British_Kirchnerist

    #28 Maybe he meant the US...

    Jan 25th, 2013 - 11:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0

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