Re: Stupid Americans! -- Stupid... Stupid... STUPID!!! ___________ yvympyra

From: Lemming <thiswillbounce@bumblbee.demon.co.uk>

Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 22:15:58 +0000

On 09 Nov 2004 11:18:07 GMT, madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral) wrote:

>I think its cool to see politics hotly debated again.  How can anybody
>understand anything, or have their opinion heard, if they don't give enough of
>a crap to talk about it.
>
>Personally, I wish we had it in the U.K..  Instead, we have a bunch of people
>who vote whatever their newspaper tells them to vote, or whatever their parents
>voted for.

Strongly agree.  We don't care enough about politics in this country.
If we did, we'd have better politicians; we wouldn't have a
conservative government pretending to be socialists, nor would we have
the weak, unelectable opposition we have now.  They are all useless --
because we allow them to be useless.

>Give me hugely-televised debates between political leaders over that any day.

Strongly disagree.  It seems to me that the US way of having the two
candidates facing each other reading from a script is a pale imitation
of genuine debate.

>A weird thing about those TV debates in the U.S.  In both cases, it seemed to
>me as if Bush won, yet the public opinion was that he lost them.  I guess even
>the definition of winning a debate is up for debate <g>.

I suspect that it depends on the preconceptions of the viewer; We feel
the debate was won by the person whose view most coincide with our
own.

Lemming
--
Curiosity *may* have killed Schrodinger's cat.

References

Re: Stupid Americans! -- Stupid... Stupid... STUPID!!! ___________ yvympyra
"Greenacarina" <veedub@earthlink.net>
Mon, 08 Nov 2004 02:28:42 +0000
Re: Stupid Americans! -- Stupid... Stupid... STUPID!!! ___________ yvympyra
madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)
Tue, 09 Nov 2004 11:18:07 +0000

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Re: Stupid Americans! -- Stupid... Stupid... STUPID!!! ___________ yvympyra
"Greenacarina" <veedub@earthlink.net>
Mon, 08 Nov 2004 02:28:42 +0000
Re: Stupid Americans! -- Stupid... Stupid... STUPID!!! ___________ yvympyra
madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)
Tue, 09 Nov 2004 11:18:07 +0000