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Don't laugh - this is US democracy at work (Electoral College beyond the grasp of idiot Scotsman)
The Scotsman ^
| 10/27/04
| FRASER NELSON
Posted on 10/27/2004 8:26:02 AM PDT by dead
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posted on
10/27/2004 8:26:02 AM PDT
by
dead
To: dead
And this from a country which next week is likely to lay on the most farcical display of democracy in the free world. There will be lawyers at the ballot booths, hanging chads and lawyers suing for victory as the rest of the planet howls with laughter. And no one will be murdered at the polls. There won't be 100,000's of people rioting in the streets. There won't be 10,000's of troops called out with tanks to control the population.
Go ahead and laugh.
To: dead
And Scotland has contributed to the world in what again? Oh yeah Ewan MacGregor, who likes to get naked and dance around in all his movies. I'll take that from Scotland, but the rest of them can Shut the hell up. Thank-you.
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posted on
10/27/2004 8:29:17 AM PDT
by
Wonderama
("America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy"....John Updike)
To: dead
Actually an entertaining, if ignorant, analysis.
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posted on
10/27/2004 8:30:50 AM PDT
by
RockinRight
(Bush's rallies look like World Series games. Kerry's rallies look like Little League games.)
To: Wonderama
Oh, you forgot Trainspotting, the movie that gave the world Heroin Chic. Now there's a contribution to the betterment of mankind. Right up there w/ haggis.
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posted on
10/27/2004 8:30:50 AM PDT
by
.cnI redruM
("Two Kerrys for the two Americas.")
To: dead
Europeans who proclaim they know America don't know jack.
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posted on
10/27/2004 8:31:11 AM PDT
by
OpusatFR
(Let me repeat this: the web means never having to swill leftist garbage again. Got it?)
To: dead
How long has Scotland been England's bitch now?
To: <1/1,000,000th%
Maybe we should read all the way to the last sentence?
To: dead
And yet, if Kerry wins, yon wee laddie will marvel at the sterling character of American democracy, that bright and shining star to the world's oppressed masses...
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posted on
10/27/2004 8:32:17 AM PDT
by
atomicpossum
(If there are two Americas, John Edwards isn't qualified to lead either of them.)
To: dead
The simple answer is: It is a REPUBLIC not a Democracy!
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posted on
10/27/2004 8:32:53 AM PDT
by
taxcontrol
(People are entitled to their opinion - no matter how wrong it is.)
To: johniegrad
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posted on
10/27/2004 8:33:03 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: Wonderama
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posted on
10/27/2004 8:33:29 AM PDT
by
TheBigB
(Please Lord...let Bush win and I promise...no naughty thoughts about Lindsay Lohan for a week.)
To: dead
Is this idiot for or against the electoral college? He makes no sense.
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posted on
10/27/2004 8:33:37 AM PDT
by
oldleft
To: dead
Hey! Shaddap and go back to your distillery.
To: proxy_user
That little sop of a last sentence (basically saying how lucky Americans are that they have even a chance to kick out a demonic moron like Bush) hardly redeems this comically ignorant attack.
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posted on
10/27/2004 8:34:47 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: dead
"...the US constitution needs approval of swing states, who do not want to lose the year-round attention they enjoy from whoever is in the White House."
yeah. get it you limey moron?
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posted on
10/27/2004 8:35:09 AM PDT
by
Pietro
To: proxy_user
"The US presidential election will be ugly, messy and - above all - thoroughly entertaining. But at least Americans have a plausible opposition and a real chance of changing their government. Many in Britain would give their eye-teeth for either."
He actually seems to have a pretty fair grasp on the "why". Plus he seems to be offering an endorsement of our system.
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posted on
10/27/2004 8:35:25 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(We've turned the corner and we're not smokin crack.)
To: dead
I would say he wants to give Tony Blair the boot...but in favor of whom? The Tories? UKIP?
To: dead
Don't laugh - this is US democracy at work
His ignorance is shown in the headline. The author is unable to grasp the simple fact that the U.S. is a
Republic,
not a "democracy".
"Democracy" is the most dangerous term in the American political lexicon. It has become a vague, warm-and-fuzzy label used to evoke the whole American system of government. Yet when America's Founders overthrew tyranny in this country, they emphatically rejected the notion of replacing it with another form of tyranny. For this reason, they expressly rejected democracy.
"Democracy," they recognized, actually means unlimited majority rule. If two men on a desert island vote to cannibalize the third, that is democracy. So it was when citizens of Athens, history's first democracy, voted to execute Socrates. And so it was when the German public voted for the Nazi Party. Democracy is not a system of liberty, but a form of tyranny: the tyranny of the majority.
Our Founders called the American system a "republic": a representative government limited by a constitution that protects the rights of the individual. Although the citizens of a republic vote for their leaders, voting is just a means to the end of protecting liberty. No matter what the people may wish their government to do, the Constitution is clear: Congress may pass no law that violates the rights of the individual. Such restrictions are codified in the Bill of Rights, the wall that protects our liberty from the whims of the majority.
Liberty, Not Democracy, in Iraq(The Ayn Rand Institute)
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posted on
10/27/2004 8:36:55 AM PDT
by
holymoly
To: proxy_user
Don't be grumpy.
Bush will win in a landslide. ;)
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