In a communique, the rebellious Lt. Col. Ollanta Moises Humala Tasso said, "I will only lay down my arms when the chain of command is legitimate and there is a president who has been truly elected by the people to whom I would be able to swear my subordination".
Let us not pretend Medvedev was truly elected or that we know anything about him.
But Washington was committed to ensuring a truly elected Republican government would flourish after him.
"And so here on this tax day, the day when we pay our due to the government we elect, let us be reminded that our government is truly elected by the lobbyists and special influence peddlers who are so eager to trade values for influence.
The House of Representatives is the only truly democratically elected body in the Government.
He lived up to his heroic image in spectacular fashion on his release in 1990, when he renounced violence and negotiated an end to the Afrikaners' brutal racist regime, becoming South Africa's first truly democratically elected president in 1994.
Amid the chaos are neighborhoods and parks as tranquil as any in the world, great food, fabulous museums and a proud sense of possibility that has come with the new presidency of Vicente Fox, Mexico's first truly democratically elected leader.
Historically, however, he will never be forgotten, as he was the first truly democratically elected leader in 1,000 years of Russian history and the first leader who made the dignity of individuals and freedom of the press a state policy.
It's truly dangerous to elect a raging, thin-skinned narcissist with no self-control.
Again, this is particularly onerous because there are so many "pirate" streams out there on every single match day that it takes a truly pious person to elect to pay for a service that they could otherwise get for free.
Let's make sure that this union, this movement, and the leaders we elect are truly representative of our people.
