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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Udie on October 24, 2002, 05:28:44 PM
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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 :D Truth hurts don't it dems? :D
http://www.gop.com/flash/bushsavestheday.html
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you're a fool if you think you'll ever get anything but fabrications from either side of the aisle.
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I thought you were a democrat?
The weak minded change sides so easily.
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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?
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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.
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Dowding - was Churchill an anarchist?
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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!
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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' ;)
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Animal let Aribeth be.
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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. :)
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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) :)
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a man with a gun is a citizen.. a man without one is a subject.
lazs
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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! :)
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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?
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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.
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Originally posted by Ripsnort
Heston should have been President! :)
Yikes!
SOB
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Dowding if you find these discussions boring then by all means stop reading them otherwise either post something on topic or STFU!
Some of us take politics serious and like to point out the flaws in ALL parties.
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Parliment is no better. At least you can have a two bodies that oppose each other. And there are real restrictions on the President. In canada we have in effect a dictator that has absolutly no controls on what he wants to accomplish. THe canadaian version of "The Left Wing" would just recount tails of stupidity and graft. Maybe they should Air a series like that.
Never thought I would see an FDB drop a Dungeons and Dragons anology on these boards...
What alignment is Creamo?
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Jesse Ventura for president...and all issues are solved via a steel-cage match. ;)
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With all due respect to our true, and trusted, friends in England. Is their something in the water over there, that makes you all such pompous ass's?
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They never even speak of the whale that swallowed Jonah merely as a whale, but as the Prince of Wales. They think it suggests that he was an English whale. If he was that, that is sufficient. That covers up any probable flaws in his character. It is nothing to them that he went about gobbling up the prophets wherever he found them; it is nothing that he interfered with their business--nothing that he put them to infinite delay, discomfort and annoyance; it is nothing that he disgorged prophets in such a condition, as to personal appearance, that they might well feel a delicacy about preaching in a strange city. No--being an English whale was sufficient to make this infamous conduct excusable; and being English, they are willing to let the "great fish" pass for a whale, notwithstanding a whale's throat is not large enough to let a man do down.
------Mark Twain
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the worst thing we do is call them "lawmakers"... it gives them the impression that we want them to make new laws.
We should call them "law reviewers" and give them the impression that their job is to review existing laws.
lazs
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I'm a moderate socialist and I tolerate the monarchy simply because of the tourist revenue. So I really ought to say a big thanks to the American people for subsidizing my great nation. :)
I'm no subject. Western democracy was begun in Britain and we have the 'Mother of all parliaments' - for what it's worth. The royal family is a joke to everyone in the UK except a few sados and the older generation who remember public figures who didn't write books about their rather dull sex lives but actually represented their country. If you shot the lot of them tomorrow, no one would care. Least of all me. In fact I'd gladly pay an extra penny in tax just to put the lot of them on a deserted island with a complete media blackout.
I'd swear an oath of loyalty to queen at a drop of a hat, however, since the Queen to me is the figurehead of my country only. She has no power.
Hey Rip, do us a favour and drop the glib line. It doesn't make you look clever and the fact that you need a sidearm to give a feeling of freedom speaks volumes about you and maybe your country. I hope it's just the former, however. ;)
Laz - haven't you got an attention seeking troll to start/continue in General Disc.? Be true to form, lad, and stick at what your good at - proposing various gameplay 'improvements' to antagonise those stupid enough to pay attention.
Easymo, the tough vet who can never post a comment without refering to his military service, as glorious as it probably was. Well I know Americans who are truly great people so, unlike you, I'll not generalise in an attempt to counter your half-baked ideas.
Thanks for the heads-up popeye. :)