| re: NJC (U.S. Politics): Bill Maher speaks up for the East Coast | |
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samurai7 07:43 pm UTC 09/17/08 |
| In reply to: | re: NJC (U.S. Politics): Bill Maher speaks up for the East Coast - steven_stuart 06:14 pm UTC 09/17/08 |
| How does a rigged election qualify as a democracy? (We also have an un-elected leader in the UK though, after Blair stood down, we got Brown. And we thought Blair was bad lol) > And we should remember that both Palin and Obama would not > have been allowed to vote in the old days. And European > countries had the same kind of limited democracy that > America had. Times have changed and political thinking has > evolved. Thanks partly to great men like Martin Luther > King and the Kennedy brothers. Although I suppose the > founding fathers were very advanced for the age in which > they lived. > > > > > > The ideas this nation was founded on came from the most > > > cosmopolitan people of their day, the founding fathers, > > > who believed in science, who looked to Europe for wisdom, > > > and who had no use for ignorant hicks like Bush and Palin. > > > > > > > They allowed slavery. European wisdom was often > > undemocratic. Britain tried to tax Americans without > > representation. I don't agree with their policies but Bush > > and Palin would never support the kind of thinking that > > existed in those days. I hope that Obama and Biden win but > > you can't just dismiss Bush and Palin as "ignorant hicks". | |
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