Even Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader and all-round lovable guy the Dalai Lama thinks the District’s lack of voting rights is a little lame, according to our friends at DC Vote, who sent us an article including the following:

Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, took a rare swipe at the United States, saying he was puzzled why residents in the capital of the world’s oldest democracy have no Congressional voting rights.

The Tibetan leader said it was “quite strange” that people in Washington DC had no voting Representatives and no Senators, an issue that has dogged the United States for the last 200 years.

He said he wondered why a “small pocket” of people living in the world’s “champion of democracy, liberty and freedom” lacked full voting rights and representation in Congress.

“Quite strange, quite strange,” he remarked, drawing further laughter.

First Europe, now the Dalai Lama. Who else is going to have to pipe up before reluctant members of Congress realize the idiocy of denying us voting rights? We hope Butterstick. No one could argue with a face that cute.