I won't. Now go listen too those MP3s Repubican!
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I won't. Now go listen too those MP3s Repubican!
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The system with the "Electoral College" is so 19th century (1800's)..
It's not old it's brillient, it's SIMPLE math. 3 or 4 states out of the entire Union would decide every election. What sense is that? Especially in a unilateral democracy of IDEPENDENT states UNITED under single a Federated Government? Besides Bush got the popular vote anyhoo. For instance just one city in Ohio has the population of my entire state. What point is it to be here if there is no representation in our democracy? The votes are based on population, that is true and that helps counter balance the opposite. Smaller states haveing more pull than a larger one such as California. Look at the map of the elecoral college. There are many many many more areas won by Bush YET the race was extremely close. It's a brilliant system and I am glad Bush ALSO won the popular vote so I don't have to listen to comments about a system that no one really understands. The selfish viepoint is the dismantle it as archaic.
Kerry earned a lot of respect today from me.
Oh brother, you guys will argue anything...The election's over, the people have voted, and now it's time for us to work with what we got.
And, no offense intended to the poster, but lines like THIS really get under my hide:
Translation: "If you don't think like me, you're OBVIOUSLY less educated!"Quote:
Notice, the states that voted for bush are the stereotypical hicks, and the stereotypical least educated people.
I thought liberals were AGAINST stereotyping anyway? Go fig.
Point is, most everyone here has demonstrated that people on both sides of the fence are more then WELL educated. All it comes down to is a difference in philosophy.
But I think John Kerry himself put it best in his concession speech today: It's time for America to unite together. This "great divide" you guys keep talking about won't get any smaller until you start getting off your high horses and respecting people across the party lines. Democrats and Republicans alike want the best for the country; they just don't agree on the "how" to get to that end.
I think if anyone's "uneducated", it's the people who fail to see that.
Actually, that is a typical statement of the democrat "intellectual elite" who believe that their being better educated makes them superior to the rest. The unfortunate thing is, IME, the academia have lots of intellect and the common sense of a retarded slug.... While we can't do without an intelligencia we need to remember that they have a place but that that place is not in leadership... we need some common sense there too......Quote:
Translation: "If you don't think like me, you're OBVIOUSLY less educated!"
For those of you who may misconstrue that statement, my experience is based on going to one of Englands better private schools, (we call them Public Schools, don't ask.... :eek: ), having friends and brothers who are members of the Oxford University "intelligencia", having spent 5 years as a grunt serving alongside those that many would call "mental midgets" but that I can assure you are some of the finest men with more common sense in any one of them than most people in the other facets of my experience have when combined and finally having spent some 6 months as an escort to a prince.... I've seen the whole spectrum of "class" and "intelligence" and I know where my preference lies......
Negative we are United. Just because we don't agree on abortion or stem cell research or gay marriage, or homeless, or money priorities, Iraq, Afganistan the EU, senators, religious laws, shool taxes, federal taxes, border controls, deregulations and the ilk, doesn't mean outside of a few power hungry individuals, we are not one big family. Hell in France you can't get anything done. :D
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RALEIGH, N.C. - Republican Rep. Richard Burr (news, bio, voting record), long an underdog in his race against Clinton aide Erskine Bowles, rode a late torrent of political commercials Tuesday to win the North Carolina Senate seat vacated by John Edwards (news - web sites).
That _has_ to hurt......
Coupled with this
Kinda confirms what I said earlier, the democratic party just entered a bad period in their history.... Of course.... I can't say I'm that bothered by that..... :D
No, they want what is best for THEM. They do some things we want so we all vote them back into office so they continue getting what THEY want, you believe what they say don't you? "Oh they will fight drug companies and make them lower prices"..... Yea, just like when they gave them all tax breaks and made them rich.Quote:
Originally posted here by AngelicKnight
Democrats and Republicans alike want the best for the country; they just don't agree on the "how" to get to that end.
What about then the President or Vice President went too Africa around '92 and said too the President of South Africa too NOT allow generic AIDs drugs into the country, and too make him buy what we had so we still got rich off of it. That was.... Gore I believe.
He then said he would fight against drug companies and say he would fight them and their prices. Funny, he told South Africa too let the people die instead of buying a cheaper alternative, but he's fighting for us ! Jack ass
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Hmmmmmmmmmmm?
I would say: "come back Jefferson Davis" all is forgiven?
:D
In my observation over the last 40 (forty) years, the UK and the USA have little choice or care about their respective leaderships? WE are "partners", where the definition of partnership is "two thieves with their hands so deep in eachothers' pockets that they cannot independently plunder a third" :D
I will comment that I have learned more about the issues on AO than in any of the "quality" British media............that worries me.........
Anyways good luck and God bless to all................my uncle was a politician (low level/life) and I always counted my fingers after I shook hands with him
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Take care folks, they won't bother you for another four years.........It is our turn in a few months.......
I try very hard to stay out of Cosmos, because I have learned very well that, when you talk to someone, they listen; when you tell someone, they ignore; and when you argue with someone, they argue back, just as much.
So with that said. We are all going to die, the world is going to end.
Damn OHIO. I guess, I will be moving to Japan, or Canada, somewhere that is not the U.S.
Bush is going to kill us all, I truly am a Republican, though, there politics are shitty, I just agree with them more on a host of things. But Bush, is going to make this friggin place, crazy.
I just can't wait until, the U.S. decides this Access of Evil **** goes to Korea. I am going to love to see that War. **** that, I am not going back to the military.
I was going to say Korea will never happen. Then while the page is loading I think:
The Soviet Union would just as soon they not have nukes.
The Chinese Already have nervous eyes there way.
So I wonder. Only this time I bet China would love to send a few million troops versus Europe? Just some thoughts nothing tangible.