onetwothreefour
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well, the american elections are coming up on november 22 (all the pre-election campaigning, primary elections -just finished-, fundraising etc. is happening atm), and i'm wondering how much interest you're all taking in it.
i don't know as much as i would like about what's going on, but from what i've read, wesley clark definitely seemed to be the best man for the job, imo - unfortunately, he wasn't doing so well in his bid to be elected as the democratic leader, and dropped out a few weeks back. howard dean also looked pretty good, but did some serious damage in that 'big angry speech' that he gave - you probably saw it on the news. personally, i don't really see how being passionate about your position and views (especially in something so important) can be deemed a bad thing, but those americans are a strange bunch, i guess
anyway, we're left with kerry against bush now. due to the massive workload that uni's heaped on me, i haven't read much over the last couple of weeks, but from the general lurking i do on bluelight, usenet and other forums, i do get the impression that kerry's pretty popular, and might have got a good chance of beating bush. and if there's one thing that's clear in this election, it's that bush needs to be gotten rid of.
are you paying attention to these elections? obviously it's not our government that's being elected here, but whether we like it or not, america is probably the most powerful country in the world - anyone who can so blatantly flaunt the laws of the u.n. is someone who must -somehow- be kept in line in any ways possible. and thus it seems that the only way to do so is to elect someone who might have some ideas of where the world is actually headed, and realise that being responsible for such a massive world power actually has some obligation to the rest of the world.
basically, it would be nice to get someone a little less self-interested (not to mention less bigoted, stupid, close-minded and militarily-motivated) into the position, and perhaps then the world will begin to improve. ya know, "it won't happen overnight, but it will happen" and all that.
so what do you think?
i don't know as much as i would like about what's going on, but from what i've read, wesley clark definitely seemed to be the best man for the job, imo - unfortunately, he wasn't doing so well in his bid to be elected as the democratic leader, and dropped out a few weeks back. howard dean also looked pretty good, but did some serious damage in that 'big angry speech' that he gave - you probably saw it on the news. personally, i don't really see how being passionate about your position and views (especially in something so important) can be deemed a bad thing, but those americans are a strange bunch, i guess
anyway, we're left with kerry against bush now. due to the massive workload that uni's heaped on me, i haven't read much over the last couple of weeks, but from the general lurking i do on bluelight, usenet and other forums, i do get the impression that kerry's pretty popular, and might have got a good chance of beating bush. and if there's one thing that's clear in this election, it's that bush needs to be gotten rid of.
are you paying attention to these elections? obviously it's not our government that's being elected here, but whether we like it or not, america is probably the most powerful country in the world - anyone who can so blatantly flaunt the laws of the u.n. is someone who must -somehow- be kept in line in any ways possible. and thus it seems that the only way to do so is to elect someone who might have some ideas of where the world is actually headed, and realise that being responsible for such a massive world power actually has some obligation to the rest of the world.
basically, it would be nice to get someone a little less self-interested (not to mention less bigoted, stupid, close-minded and militarily-motivated) into the position, and perhaps then the world will begin to improve. ya know, "it won't happen overnight, but it will happen" and all that.
so what do you think?
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