NationStates Jolt Archive

mm... just read some of those messages in the link on the 1st page.. i can't really belive anyone from britain with any sense, could write to undecided voters to advise them on who to vote for.. they'd contact the democratic party first.. and some idiots who replied there were over-reacting. meh probably british morons writing to american morons.. lol

i hate the way most replies are saying "you british" thats about as moronic as meeting a stupid ukranian drunken homo and thinking the rest of the population were like that.. morons..

(i like that word!)

You can't please anybody if you're a government, you know. On one hand you've got people saying "nobody ortn't to be goin down a mine in this day an' age!" and on the other people saying "oi work here, yer know!"
A similar argument, I surmise, only the banning of fox-hunting is unlikely to be quite as extreme as the closing of the mines and shipyards.
True enough. But old Tone could at least make a decent show at lying to his people instead of trying to insist he's always right and just carrying on regardless. You know, even if he didn't mean it he should've sat down and apologised for the war. I reckon that's why Arnie's in politics. He's an actor and he can do.. a.. decent pretence of.. wait.. No I still don't understand why he's there.

And at least mines and shipyards were just poor ordinary people. Labour's managed to go piss off both ordinary people AND the posh rabble. Quite an effort to be fair.

True enough. But old Tone could at least make a decent show at lying to his people instead of trying to insist he's always right and just carrying on regardless. You know, even if he didn't mean it he should've sat down and apologised for the war. I reckon that's why Arnie's in politics. He's an actor and he can do.. a.. decent pretence of.. wait.. No I still don't understand why he's there.
True, true. But to actually apologise for something like a war and telling fibs about it to the populace would be a decidedly liberal thing to do, and we all know what Teflon Tony thinks of hippies and the immoral decade that spawned them.

I can solve your Arnie problem by pointing out that the lines between "celebrity" and "politics" in America are very blurred. They have a strange ability to get the populace excited about politics by using a lot of colours and noises etc. Over here we have lots of men in grey suits talking about whether there's enough motorways connecting major cities, or whether the civil service have enough gongs available to them. It's all very tiresome over here, and celebrities and politics doesn't mix. Look at Kilroy.

And at least mines and shipyards were just poor ordinary people. Labour's managed to go piss off both ordinary people AND the posh rabble. Quite an effort to be fair.
They are the People's Party, after all!

The problem is that "our" - that is to say AMERICAN- politics do affect the rest of the world. Because, no matter how small OR large the issues seem to be, the world is "shrinking" at a fast enough rate that what happens in one country affects the others- especially our close allies, like France and Britain.

That isn't to say that I think everyone should ONLY listen to people outside of America on how to vote- quite the opposite: I think that the American electoral college is, well, America's business. I'm firmly, PROUDLY American, I just think that some peoples' logic has holes.

Respectfully,
Another American

1) It isn't because the world is 'shrinking' that America is having a strong effect on other countries. its because it MEDDLES in the politics of other countries on a grand GRAND scale. Hell, assassination used to be a large part of the CIA world (Israel, Britain, France and other covert spy group-having countries do/did as well) until they banned it. However, they did flirt with the idea of bringing assassination BACk but I don't know how that turned out.

It amazes me how these guys are complaining of the interference of a few Brits when America meddles in much more expansive and dangerous ways in the affairs of far too many sovereign nations.

2) The electoral college is flawed. It is america's business to fix it.

Hell, assassination used to be a large part of the CIA world (Israel, Britain, France and other covert spy group-having countries do/did as well) until they banned it. However, they did flirt with the idea of bringing assassination BACK but I don't know how that turned out.
Now the NSA do any dirty work the CIA don't want to do. Or the CIA fund and train indigenous activists to do it for them. MOSSAD still kill whoever they want and largely get away with it. Europe's mostly calmed down but wouldn't see them being averse to the odd political capping.

I read too many spy stories..

Now the NSA do any dirty work the CIA don't want to do. Or the CIA fund and train indigenous activists to do it for them. MOSSAD still kill whoever they want and largely get away with it. Europe's mostly calmed down but wouldn't see them being averse to the odd political capping.

I read too many spy stories..

Silly people, the Morag Tong is the premier assassination guild in the world.

So... apparently Americans did need our advice on who to vote for. Oh well. I heard there was a rise in military undertaking and mortuary assistant employment rates when Bush's progress was being broadcast.

Im sure the Guardian readers will be joining with me to congratulate President Bush on his victory ;) AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA

God bless America :D God bless the American Voter ^^

Come on, be fair. Some of those letters were reasonable, sensible, and well-written. If you have that impression, it's been willfully cultivated without regard to contradicting viewpoints.

curious that the rabid, senseless and illiterate ones were from republicans