Guess who is going to monitor our elections?

[JBA]

Maybe the committee to re-elect Slobodan Milosevic is availiable?

 

cuddlinghunk's

[lazs2]

curval... the point would be to make the euros "feel" like we gave a **** what they thought.

lazs

[mosgood]

Hmmm... this smells like a troll.  Even has a nice ugly wart...

got a source?

[Curval]

Originally posted by lazs2
curval... the point would be to make the euros "feel" like we gave a **** what they thought.

lazs

Ahh, good use of resourses.

[lazs2]

yep.. but all resources are not created equal.   you use the resources the best way they can be used.   In this case.... simply pretend to use em.

lazs

[Curval]

I was actually referring to the cash amount that will be forked over for the priviledge of having these monitors.  The monitors aren't going to pay for it, that's for sure.

I wonder how much this "pretending" will cost your government?

[Saurdaukar]

Originally posted by demaw1
Yep seems the stupid dems wanted europe to monitor our elections.

    Yep seems the stupid repubs have agreed.
   
    A pox on both their houses, what the heck is bush doing? We dont need anyone from europe coming in here, to oversee us do anything. Im betting the dems and repubs can handle it. We been doing it for a long time. Both sides have smart lawyers and dumb followers like us. I do question the Presidents actions sometimes.

    Any chance of agreeing on this one?

Agree.  100%.

Huge, huge, huge, huge mistake.

[Adogg]

Originally posted by demaw1
Ravs...annoyed....
If it was good enough for our fore fathers it is good enough for us now.

Ummmm...a system devised 200 years ago when communications took weeks if not months to cross the nation and literacy was low is still applicable now?

I'm not saying the system needs changing but that assertion is completely out of context.

Hell slavery was good enough for the founding fathers too...maybe that should be re-instated?

I think the mistake made at the beginning of this post was the assumption that monitoring is bad? Not at all. In fact having people who don't have a direct stake in the results monitor the elections is a good policy. I'm just not sure Europeans are  exactly unbiased on this front. Maybe an international panel? Like olympic Ice Skating...oh wait bad example.

Canadians have problems with this too. It would help if the press was actually immune from bias (in either direction) and capable of being democracy's watchdog. Sadly though, relying on the press to play its role in monitoring democracy is rather like asking a blind, deaf, mute quadraplegic to protect your nymphomaniac daughter's virtue.

[lazs2]

curval... the money is important but money spent on an illussion is sometimes money well spent.  

Adogg...  there is nothing in our constitution that says slavery is ok.   The constitution is a timeless document.   people have not changed since then.   We still need the protections from government it assures.   I know that being from canada you wouldn't understand that.

lazs

[bikekil]

i could point you to a thread about asking for help... but i won't

[midnight Target]

Actually we've imported the Swedish bikini team to monitor the elections in SoCal.

There's eurotrash and then there's EUROTRASH.

[SlapShot]

Originally posted by ravells
Hey Tumor,

50 years ago, she was hot!

Ravs

No she wasn't ... she was never hot and never will be. Too much inbreeding.