Is America sick? (French Harvard grad diagnoses our illness and has all the cures)

Sydney Morning Herald ^ | December 15, 2003 | Julien Ninio

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Don't even bother asking me any questions about this juvenile drivel. I made it to about the tenth paragraph before my exploded at how effing clueless this moron is about our country.

I'm just so happy he moved to Australia so he can annoy them with his clove cigarettes and espresso, and his beret and the loving talk of Che, and his faux-poor, Chilean pancho that he wears when it rains, and his straggley hair that he washes only once a week or so, and the incense that he burns while he reads Sylvia Plath with a tear in his eye.

[Tijeras_Slim]

How am I going to work or FReep today... now that my eyes' have glazed over?

[bigeasy_70118]

It also gives them an unfair weight in questions the Senate settles without input from the House of Representatives,

Harvard grad=ignorant of US History. The Constitution which sets forth the makeup of Senate and House is the result of a compromise between the large states and smaller ones. Why would Wyoming stay in the Union, if CA had 25 senators to their 1?

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

All I needed to see was the reference to Chomsky - I gave up then.

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That's what was making my head explode!

This guy writes this painfully childish screed wherein he displays not a single iota of understanding the history of this nation.

A typical shallow pseudo-intellectual socialist blowhard with his head so far up his ass he could lick his own uvula.

[BADROTOFINGER]

American democracy had deep flaws long before the 2000 election. For instance, each of our 50 States elects two of the country's 100 senators. Wyoming's 500 000 residents elect two senators. California has 68 times the population of Wyoming; its 34 million residents also elect two senators. This means each Wyoming resident has 68 times more weight than a Californian in choosing the country's 100 senators. Instead of 'one man one vote', we have 'one man 68 votes'.

I quit reading at this point. What a complete moron...JFK

[Lil'freeper]

California has 68 times the population of Wyoming; its 34 million residents also elect two senators. This means each Wyoming resident has 68 times more weight than a Californian in choosing the country's 100 senators. Instead of 'one man one vote', we have 'one man 68 votes'.

That's as far as I got. What a flipping moron! Does the think he's the first to discover this dirty little secret? I wonder if it's occured to him that this system was designed on purpose? Not that it matters. If America is sick, it is because it pays too much heed to Europeans and academia's Elitist Snobs.

[Lil'freeper]

I quit reading at this point.

LOL- great minds think alike.

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Just pick a sentence at random! Any sentence!

Our rulers have managed to create hysteria time and time again: over communist spies stealing our atomic secrets

This guy wears his ignorance like a freaking Easter bonnet!

[hellinahandcart]

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

...corrupt politicians, fearful citizens, unchecked corporations, crumbling social services. These are big problems for a nation that plays such a dominating international role...

He forgot stupid Frenchmen.

Guns, on the other hand, are the proper medicine for curing these ills.

[11B3]

Anyone who uses Chomsky as a reference should be euthanized.

[hellinahandcart]

Damn, that hurt...

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We owe nothing to a piece of paper; we owe it to ourselves and our children to provide the conditions for a good life. The supreme law of the land must evolve to serve people's needs. The longer we keep the Constitution in its present shape, the more it becomes like a cult.

Again, thank you God for sending this twit to Australia.

I honestly feel like throwing a going away party for this guy, who already left and I’ve never even met.

I’ll even pick up the bar tab.

[Billthedrill]

Somebody wasn't paying attention in grade school - the reason that we have both proportionate and disproportionate representation in the U.S. government is as old as the country and is basic to its foundations. This babe in arms has evidently just discovered it and is wondering at his own cleverness in doing so. Sad, really.

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I guess his Harvard education didn't tell him that there is a perfectly functioning method for changing our constitution included in the very document itself.

How can people like this even function in life, let alone consider themselves learned and wise.

This guy should be living in a supervised apartment with somebody cooking his meals and organizing trips to the zoo for him.

[Callahan]

Well, let's just put Julien in charge and he'll make all our problems disappear. Julien the Harvard Boy and Jacques Chirac for President of the USA in '04!!!!!

[steve8714]

shallow end of the (now Australian) gene pool. Doesn't "former CEO" indicate he's a failure?

[facedown]

I made it to about the tenth paragraph before my (head?) exploded at how effing clueless this moron is about our country.

You're far more patient than I. I didn't make it past the title.

[Paul Ross]

His first mistake is the primary one. We are NOT a democracy. We are a Constitutional Republic. Second, our voter turnout is a direct result of the Leftist attack on our country, infiltrating government and both parties, and the media, disillusioning voters as to their being a difference. And then, along with the Chomsky stuff, his bizarre contentions that "Democrats have expelled the more progressive from their ranks". Since when? Does Al Gore know he has been expelled yet? Does Charles Schumer, and Barbara Boxer, or Patty Osama Momma Murray, Patrick Leahy or Tom Daschle and the whole raft of Congressional Socialknow they have been expelled? That they are hypocrites is not in doubt. But that they are sincere hypocrites is what the author misses. They actually believe in and reinforce their self-delusions that they are 'helping' the 'poor'.