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John Kerry (Democrat) 27 52.94%
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Old 11-06-2004, 05:16 PM
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Maybe a forum event, but not an on-site event. I don't know enough about British politics.
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You don't need to: What I don't know others should be able to fill you in on...here's a rough guide (and by rough I mean really, really rough):
Blair and the Labour Party: Ban fox hunting, join Europe, suck up to Bush and Chirac, let the world and his wife build hi-rise building all over our countryside, destroy our parliamentary democracy and the Monarchy, create regional assemblies, turn the UK into the United States of Great Britain ( :evil: :x :evil: :x :evil: :x :evil: ). If you don't know about Blair WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN?!
Howard and the Tory Party: Do everything opposite to New Labour, and get health and education going (but he was in Thatcher and Major's governments and is suspected of vampirism and no-one trusts him)
Charles Kennedy and the Lib Dems: Sit on the fence about everything, and also do things pretty much the same as Blair. Kennedy supposedly Roman Catholic (might well be skin deep, like other politicians we know in the US and *ACK* Ow! Hey, Vedra, stop it! STOP it! ), also boozer.
UKIP and Robert Kilroy-Silk: pull out of Europe, stop overpopulating the country ridiculously, recreate the United Kingdom as was. (RKS was TV presenter, sacked for some random reason, etc etc.)
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Ha! I voted for Bush! Bush is the man! If he had one fault, it would be being too moderate!

Seriously though, we in the United States care very little about what Europe thinks about us. In fact, we care so little we defected into our own little country. It was around 1776, it was in all the papers. And that was one of sKerry's major mistakes. Americans pander to no-one, sKerry pandered to everyone, especially to Europe. That and he was a socialist. Americans are not socialists. We do not want socialist programs and we do not want wealth redistribution. Despite what Hollyweird protrays us as, Americans are tough, rugged people that will steamroll anyone that stands in our way. We want to invade Iraq? Fogettaboutit. We want to invade North Korea? We're going to do it. Iran? Its just one letter off from Iraq. We are at war and we will not stop until the world is safe for us. Those that stand against the United States will feel our wrath. It is not a matter of 'if' but 'when'.
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Ah. I see my view that the forum of a parody site is not the ideal place to spew partisan rhetoric is not much shared.
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.....You're supposed to be a SANE commodore?
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^So he says.
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:shock: Ookay....even I'm disturbed by that post *backs away slowly then runs to tower of DOOMMWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA*
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^ You mean your bedroom, right?
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No. the loft extension, if you must know... :roll: :roll:
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There's nothing insane about Wade's post -- it's no more extreme than half of what the left says, it's just not heard as often online.

(Nan, I made it clear right in the first post that this thread was for talking politics. That includes "spewing partisan rhetoric.")
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Hmmm...no kicking the democrats though....you've got to show mercy....how about locking them all in a luxurious room while playing This at them forever :twisted: :?
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Thank you Zeke, its nice to know that not all non-Americans think that we are blood-thirsty zealots waging a holy war. But, as our forefathers so aptly put: DON'T TREAD ON ME. If you [terrorists] pick a fight with the United States you will feel the wrath of a people moved.[/i]
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So.... anyone want to move to Mars with me?
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I meant in general, Zeke. :?
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Nan, I think it's safe to say that if you throw out any political idea that people will jump on it, no matter where it is. It's just human. Now certain people, like you and I, seem to avoid it. However, there's nothing we can do. It's sad, but nowhere is safe from politics.
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It just makes me mad. Political flame wars ruin perfectly good forums. DC just about came apart at the seams until it was agreed to just not talk about certain things there.

I'll take you up on your offer, there, Pointy.
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I'll be living in a mock-up of the United States, the way it should be: at least marginal respect for people's rights and freedoms, and chomping at the bit to kick the rest of the world's ass is not what drives our foreign policy.
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Ah. Missed a few days in there. Much to respond to. Let's take it from the simplest and go from there, shall we? Not that you have a say in this.

1) Xeroc, I mentioned Best of the Web by James Taranto because that is how I found Good News Watch, which, I believe, was only entitled Good News Watch on that page. Arthur Chrenkoff, I thought, called it something else on his blog.

2) I think if we keep the partisan hacking to this one thread, we should be okay. Of course, that's more an argument for the webmasters about what they want these forums (this forum?) to be.

3) Single issue voting/abortion: I agree, babies are no "more" human than anyone else. The evil in abortion is in the sheer volume of them. 6 million died in the Holocaust, and less than a million Americans have died in all of its wars combined. There have been a little more than 900 executions since 1976 in the U.S. There have been 45 million abortions since 1973 (3,948 a day), in just the United States!

Now, of course, I have not established the personhood of the fetus, so I will: It grows, it uses energy, it develops, and it has the potential to produce fertile offspring with other members of homo sapiens. To wit, it shares every major trait of a newborn or a pre-lingual two-year-old. Therefore, it is protected by our 14th Amendment (except in cases in which the mother who wants an abortion goes to court and her fetus receives a fair and speedy trial by jury, faces his accuser, and is spared cruel and unusual punishment).

We could go further into ensoulment, but do we really want the law to do that? The last time the Supreme Court ruled on personhood, it stated that black people were 3/5 of a person. Women, for many of the same reasons, couldn't vote until the '20s, and many of the same issues apply today in gay marriage.

No, I support the separation of church and state. For this reason, I believe abortion is the most egregious violation of our laws in the history of our country, and that is the single greatest crime against humanity in history. It ought to be immediately and flatly made illegal, and I think that our country has the best chance of doing that under the leadership of George W. Bush.

4) The only way we can watch the British election is over C-Span, the government access cable channel, which is why I'll probably be the only person in the city to do so. I must say, I'm envious of Britland's current ruler's ability to speak correctly. It would seem that England's children is learning, in addition to putting food on their families.

5) Nice political board, always in search of new members from all parties: s3.invisionfree.com/therandomroom/index.php . Low-key, small, and populated by a bunch of people with very strange senses of humor.
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