Joey, Ross and Egypt's elections

I remebered one episode of Friends when Joey and Ross were having an argument and Ross used the " " hand sign (what I call the two-finger two-finger sign) obviously to add a certain connotation to a word, then Joey said "ok, when people do that, I don't really get it". Actually I think people sometimes get this sign differently, which is a matter of pragmatic interest of course. Let's try this example:

Today is a "historical" day in Egypt because we have presidential "elections" where Egyptians actually get to "choose" between different people for the first time since the "glorious" 1952 revolution.

So, how do the adjectives, verbs and nouns between inverted commas affect your interpretation of this utterance? If you are still unsure, wait till the results are out and you'll know "what I mean".

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