Author Topic: Ahhhhh ya gotta love the truth (Read 394 times)

Udie · « **on:** October 24, 2002, 05:28:44 PM »

WTG RNC!

remember the democrat attack add last week or the week before when they showed pres. Bush pushing a wheelchaired old lady off a social security cliff?

here's the RNC response

Truth hurts don't it dems?

http://www.gop.com/flash/bushsavestheday.html

whgates3 · « **Reply #1 on:** October 25, 2002, 12:15:07 AM »

you're a fool if you think you'll ever get anything but fabrications from either side of the aisle.

Animal · « **Reply #2 on:** October 25, 2002, 12:18:55 AM »

I thought you were a democrat?
The weak minded change sides so easily.

Dowding (Work) · « **Reply #3 on:** October 25, 2002, 12:40:39 AM »

Do they remove your brain and sign you up to a political party at birth, in the US?

Is the laughable 'football game' mentality shown towards American politics as prevelant in US society as much as it is here?

easymo · « **Reply #4 on:** October 25, 2002, 12:50:40 AM »

Shucks. I wish I could set on Mount Olympus, above it all, with dowding. I guess you just have to be a superior being, like him.

whgates3 · « **Reply #5 on:** October 25, 2002, 02:17:24 AM »

Dowding - was Churchill an anarchist?

Dowding (Work) · « **Reply #6 on:** October 25, 2002, 02:57:13 AM »

I call it has I see it easymo. And all the demomcrat vs Republican crap on this board is just so boring. If Gore had won, the staunch Republicans on here would be doing their utmost to discredit him, just like they did with Clinton. Now that Bush is in power, you have Democrats doing the same (although there seems to be fewer democrats in this board compared to others). It's just so puerile.

It's nothing but a glorified game of football, like I said above, and reminds of what passes for parliamentary debate over here. Politics should be more than that.

Churchill was a pinko, socialist, communist lesbian, cross-dressing democrat, Islamic foreigner!

Animal · « **Reply #7 on:** October 25, 2002, 02:57:16 AM »

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Originally posted by Dowding (Work)
Do they remove your brain and sign you up to a political party at birth, in the US?

Is the laughable 'football game' mentality shown towards American politics as prevelant in US society as much as it is here?

I get your point, but this wasnt even a gradual change.
First you see someone being a hardcore vocar suporter of one side, and less than one year later he talks like he's been on the other side forever.

For the record, I'm a 'chaotic neutral'

Glasses · « **Reply #8 on:** October 25, 2002, 04:06:56 AM »

Animal let Aribeth be.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #9 on:** October 25, 2002, 07:29:27 AM »

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Originally posted by Dowding (Work)
Do they remove your brain and sign you up to a political party at birth, in the US?

Is the laughable 'football game' mentality shown towards American politics as prevelant in US society as much as it is here?

Sure beats being a subject of the crown...Subject.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #10 on:** October 25, 2002, 07:30:06 AM »

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Originally posted by Dowding (Work)
Do they remove your brain and sign you up to a political party at birth, in the US?

Is the laughable 'football game' mentality shown towards American politics as prevelant in US society as much as it is here?

Sure beats being a subject to the crown (tax-wise too)

lazs2 · « **Reply #11 on:** October 25, 2002, 08:08:34 AM »

a man with a gun is a citizen.. a man without one is a subject.
lazs

Ripsnort · « **Reply #12 on:** October 25, 2002, 08:10:00 AM »

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Originally posted by lazs2
a man with a gun is a citizen.. a man without one is a subject.
lazs

Heston should have been President!

Swoop · « **Reply #13 on:** October 25, 2002, 08:41:11 AM »

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Originally posted by Ripsnort

Sure beats being a subject to the crown (tax-wise too)

Who's a subject of the Crown?

popeye · « **Reply #14 on:** October 25, 2002, 09:36:33 AM »

Dowding, most of our politicians are lawyers. In the USA, law is an adversarial system, with each side trying to "win" at any cost, by any means. When lawyers become politicians, they apply the same thinking to government, with their main objective to "win". So, we get "party line" votes where 100% of one of the parties votes to support their "leadership", and dissention is punished within the party by witholding key committee positions. Compromise is rare enough to be newsworthy, and is openly disdained in campaign advertising. The "other side" is painted as not merely different, or even misguided, but as "evil". Voters are left with the choice of the lesser of two evils.

Sometimes, I think a parlimentary system, while probably no more effective, might be at least more entertaining.