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Do you think the gentleman made his point..............?
"I feel very strongly that this was an invasion of my privacy," he said. "The right of my wife and myself to decide whom to vote for should not be affected by any other country. That was a freedom we fought for many years ago. It was 1776."
Amen, Amen!
This is why I was never terribly bothered by this episode. Any sensible person receiving the sort of self-righteous guff which readers of the 'Grauniad' would produce would instantly switch to the opposing side.
You Americans inherited your stubborn and contrary nature from us Brits, nothing would make me more fervent in my Toryism than a letter from a N.Y.Times reader telling me to vote Labour. This is exactly the same thing in reverse.
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WTF is going on? Shall we try to influence elections in Great Britain? Maybe it's time for another Boston Tea Party - how fitting, for the Senator from Massachusetts.
Many local Democrats expressed sympathy with the desire of British voters to have a say.
See anything wrong with it?
When meeting someone from Europe who is a snob, one need only ask the following:
Are you from the part of Europe whose arsed we saved or whose arse we kicked?
OMG - FOREIGN NATIONALS IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES ARE BEING DISENFRANCHISED FROM AMERICAN ELECTIONS--WHAT IS THE WORLD COMING TO?? EVERY VOTER MUST BE GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO CAST HIS OR HER BALLOT, WHEREVER THAT VOTER MAY BE!!
September 6, 1781 - Benedict Arnold's troops loot and burn the port of New London, Connecticut.
September 14-24, 1781 - De Grasse sends his ships up the Chesapeake Bay to transport the armies of Washington and Rochambeau to Yorktown.
September 28, 1781 - Gen. Washington, with a combined Allied army of 17,000 men, begins the siege of Yorktown. French cannons bombard Gen. Cornwallis and his 9000 men day and night while the Allied lines slowly advance and encircle them. British supplies run dangerously low.
October 17, 1781 - As Yorktown is about to be taken, the British send out a flag of truce. Gen. Washington and Gen. Cornwallis then work out terms of surrender.
October 19, 1781 - As their band plays the tune, "The world turned upside down," the British army marches out in formation and surrenders at Yorktown. Hopes for a British victory in the war against America are dashed. In the English Parliament, there will soon be calls to bring this long costly war to an end.
October 24, 1781 - 7000 British reinforcements under Gen. Clinton arrive at Chesapeake Bay but turn back on hearing of the surrender at Yorktown.
January 1, 1782 - Loyalists begin leaving America, heading north to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
January 5, 1782 - The British withdraw from North Carolina.
February 27, 1782 - In England, the House of Commons votes against further war in America.
March 5, 1782 - The British Parliament empowers the King to negotiate peace with the United States.
March 7, 1782 - American militiamen massacre 96 Delaware Indians in Ohio in retaliation for Indian raids conducted by other tribes.
March 20, 1782 - British Prime Minister, Lord North, resigns, succeeded two days later by Lord Rockingham who seeks immediate negotiations with the American peace commissioners.
April 4, 1782 - Sir Guy Carleton becomes the new commander of British forces in America, replacing Gen. Clinton. Carleton will implement the new British policy of ending hostilities and withdraw British troops from America.
April 12, 1782 - Peace talks begin in Paris between Ben Franklin and Richard Oswald of Britain.
April 16, 1782 - Gen. Washington establishes American army headquarters at Newburgh, New York.
April 19, 1782 - The Dutch recognize the United States of America as a result of negotiations conducted in the Netherlands by John Adams.
June 11, 1782 - The British evacuate Savannah, Georgia.
June 20, 1782 - Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States of America.
August 19, 1782 - Loyalist and Indian forces attack and defeat American settlers near Lexington, Kentucky.
August 25, 1782 - Mohawk Indian Chief Joseph Brant conducts raids on settlements in Pennsylvania and Kentucky.
August 27, 1782 - The last fighting of the Revolutionary War between Americans and British occurs with a skirmish in South Carolina along the Combahee River.
November 10, 1782 - The final battle of the Revolutionary War occurs as Americans retaliate against Loyalist and Indian forces by attacking a Shawnee Indian village in the Ohio territory.
November 30, 1782 - A preliminary peace treaty is signed in Paris. Terms include recognition of American independence and the boundaries of the United States, along with British withdrawal from America.
December 14, 1782 - The British evacuate Charleston, South Carolina.
December 15, 1782 - In France, strong objections are expressed by the French over the signing of the peace treaty in Paris without America first consulting them. Ben Franklin then soothes their anger with a diplomatic response and prevents a falling out between France and America.
January 20, 1783 - England signs a preliminary peace treaty with France and Spain.
February 3, 1783 - Spain recognizes the United States of America, followed later by Sweden, Denmark and Russia.
February 4, 1783 - England officially declares an end to hostilities in America.
March 10, 1783 - An anonymous letter circulates among Washington's senior officers camped at Newburgh, New York. The letter calls for an unauthorized meeting and urges the officers to defy the authority of the new U.S. national government (Congress) for its failure to honor past promises to the Continental Army. The next day, Gen. Washington forbids the unauthorized meeting and instead suggests a regular meeting to be held on March 15. A second anonymous letter then appears and is circulated. This letter falsely claims Washington himself sympathizes with the rebellious officers.
March 15, 1783 - General Washington gathers his officers and talks them out of a rebellion against the authority of Congress, and in effect preserves the American democracy. Read more about this
April 11, 1783 - Congress officially declares an end to the Revolutionary War.
April 26, 1783 - 7000 Loyalists set sail from New York for Canada, bringing a total of 100,000 Loyalists who have now fled America.
June 13, 1783 - The main part of the Continental Army disbands.
June 24, 1783 - To avoid protests from angry and unpaid war veterans, Congress leaves Philadelphia and relocates to Princeton, New Jersey.
July 8, 1783 - The Supreme Court of Massachusetts abolishes slavery in that state.
September 3, 1783 - The Treaty of Paris is signed by the United States and Great Britain. Congress will ratify the treaty on January 14, 1784.
October 7, 1783 - In Virginia, the House of Burgesses grants freedom to slaves who served in the Continental Army.
November 2, 1783 - George Washington delivers his farewell address to his army. The next day, remaining troops are discharged.
November 25, 1783 - Washington enters Manhattan as the last British troops leave.
November 26, 1783 - Congress meets in Annapolis, Maryland.
December 23, 1783 - Following a triumphant journey from New York to Annapolis, George Washington, victorious commander in chief of the American Revolutionary Army, appears before Congress and voluntarily resigns his commission, an event unprecedented in history.
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/revwar-77.htm
The Democrats are embarrassed because they know that they are seeing other liberals embarrass themselves without realizing that they are even doing it.
These people have toilet paper stuck to their shoes and haven't looked down.
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Here's a message to the rest of the world: if it bothers you that America is so powerful that our votes affect your well-being, then maybe you should get off your scrawny asses and do something to make your own country more powerful. You'll never succeed, of course, but there's more dignity in that than in whining to Americans trying to get them to undermine their own country.
OF COURSE WE WERE OUTRAGED. What we really want to hear is what the good people in France, Germany & Spain recommend.
--On April 19, 1775, we decided to express our opinion of what we think of people meddling in our affairs.
We can offer a refresher course for those who didn't quite get the message.
What cracks me up is the liberals complain about Pres. Bush's "arrogance." And now this? It isn't arrogant to have these foreigners lecturing U.S. voters? What planet do these people live on?
Don't tread on me...
tell this paper to go back and read the magna carta where it talks about the rights of the various social classes, and was written ca 1250. how dare the peasants of lowly england (tony blair excepted) tell the mighty, loft, wealth creating nation, global safety net, burgher (entrepreneurial) society of the united states how to vote.
imagine what would have happened if another european power, such as france, was in charge of vietnam in the 1950s [sarcasm].
