Re: Rumsfeld visits NOLA


ing wrote:
> Donna deMedicis wrote:
>
> [in reference to the Bush Administration and the
> President himself]
>
>
> > They no longer have to run for election. They do not have to pretend.
> > They can simply do what they'd planned to do all along. Tell me --
> > would this be easier to swallow if they were better actors? If they
> > were smoother?
>
> I dunno -- it's how you feel about it I guess. I'd
> rather have a good leader than a good actor.
>
> You have a different system than we do -- ours is
> a parliamentary system - we could chuck our head
> of the country out in a heartbeat or three, given
> an upsurge of condemnation by the electorate. Our
> guy/gal has gotta watch where they walk and what
> they do. Too many tight elections this way, lately
> -- nobody's safe in their positions, no matter
> what they think.
>
> Down your way, there won't be another Presidential
> election until 2008 - about 3+ years or so away.
>
> I'm asking a serious question here -- how easy is
> it for Americans to know that they're gonna have a
> lame-duck Pres around for another three years -
> one who can "simply do what they'd planned to do
> all along" as you said, and if he takes a wrong
> turn, or does some real idiotic thing -- you can't
> do a thing about it? Other than impeach and then
> convict the impeachment - and that's a long
> process, I understand - takes years and torn
> hearts ... how do you feel about that?
>
> Seems to me, 2nd terms are cakewalks for
> Presidents (Clinton included, I'm neither red nor
> blue all the time) ... seems to me (an outsider,
> not American) you're left holding the bag for four
> years, with no options other than just stand by
> and watch it happen ...am I wrong to think that?
>

I wouldn't overexcite myself with the accountability of parliamentary
governments. I'm a citizen of a nation with an untouchable government
and a resident of another with another.

In the UK, you can get elected on about 37-38 per cent of the vote.
That's barely more than a third of the people who bother voting!

And the alternative is a pack of cunts so venal that even their mothers
probably vote Labour.

We had, what was it, sixteen years of a despised government, which did
everything it could to destroy the fabric of our nation, and nearly
succeeded. It shafted our economy, created an enormous gap in wealth
between rich and poor, ran our education and health systems into the
ground and we could not get rid of the fuckers or change even one word
of their legislation without practically dying for it in the streets.
And when we did get rid of them, we replaced them with liars who said
"Judge us on these promises", which they broke as quickly as they
could. The sooner we get "None of the above" on the ticket, the better.

Ivor

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