Congradulatioins George W.Bush - To Al Gore suffer

[Jango Fett]

Suffer Gore Suffer Democrat w***ers. US Repos are taking over the world. The force is with George W Bush - always. Long live Republican politics.

 

[NICK THE PIE MAN]

Umm yeah. Care factor Zero!!!
I was over the whole election three weeks ago, it became a joke how long it went on for. This is the Bigfooty board, not the Bigpolitics board...


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"Collingwood forever"

 

[CJH]

I wonder what other names Jango Fett has posted under?

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This is a hallucination and these faces are in a dream. A computer generated environment; a fantasy island you can do anything and not have to face the consequences.

 

[meg]

I don't understand the fascination with the election.

If everybody's forgotten, we're in Australia, not America

I understand that it concerns us, but gosh, get over it already.

meg

 

[JUBJUB]

Who gives a fat rats about America.

"FLORIDA - home of idiots" .

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"Absatively Posilutely"

 

[Dan26]

Given that G4E is a confessed Star Wars addict, and that his name portras a character in Epiosde2, it is obviously G4E.

Apparently, Jango Fett is the father of Boba Fett, and he uses himself to be the human, that all other clones are designed from (thus begins the Clone wars). Jango takes the first Clone, Boba Fett, as his son. Jango, apparently is killed by Mace Windu (Samuel L Jackson) in a big arena towards the end of the movie.

Once again G4E's writing style has made it obvious to pick him. Is he stupid or what !

 

[Carey_is_King]

Suggest you spend your time reading a dictionary.

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[jod23]

Gore ve Bush oh man i pity America. Keep Clinton!!!

Hell we'll give ya Howard if you like.

 

[walshy1993]

the only good thing about america is its a place to keep the americans

americans are w***ers, thats why they call them yanks

 

[lioness]

That wasn't an election, it was a farce. So much for 'may the best man win'. God bless America.

[This message has been edited by lioness22 (edited 15 December 2000).]

 

[Grendel]

Well put Lioness, and people wonder why i didnt want a Republic.
The Westminster system might not be perfect, but its better than any alternative ive yet seen put forward.

 

[ptw]

Grendel

without being too dry....

I think in the situation as just played out in USA their system might be better (did I just say that ???? hmmmmm better lie down.)

If you had the same situation here eg a tied house of reps with 1 undecided seat, coming down to a few votes....

1. The Prime Minister would be decided by a group of people who did not vote for him (or her). They voted for someone they probably have never heard of (an old union thug, or someone who bought their way onto the lib ticket). They clearly do not know who they are voting for. At least in Florida MOst [\b] of the votors voted for either Gore or Bush....and they got one of them.

2. With our preferential voting system, the person who won that seat could well have recieved less votes...even if they were all counted. Our system really is who do you hate the least, when it comes to close elections.

The thing I found most repulsive in the USA thing was that the parties would try to get cases in juristictions because the judges were Democrats or Republicans. What happened to separation of powers ?

Also all of the election officials were party appointed. A big tick for the Australian Electoral Commission !!

still...the whole thing was good for a laugh.

ptw

 

[Mobbs]

A couple of points :

All recess/depress ions of the US have occurred during Repub reign.

My missus, an expat yank of a year and a half (guilt trip walshy hehe) reckoned upon the Bush win with 'glad I left when I did'.

Clinton wanted to introduce a national medi system similar to our medicare but the Repub-controlled something or other blocked it.

I'm glad I'm where I am and I don't care what we are, as long as we're not THEM.

 

[Same Old's]

Originally posted by Grendel:
Well put Lioness, and people wonder why i didnt want a Republic.
The Westminster system might not be perfect, but its better than any alternative ive yet seen put forward.

You can still have a republic with a Westminster system, albeit without the Crown.

While you have a right to your opinion it is not wise to pass judgement on a republic because of what happend in one particular country.

 

[Grendel]

Okay normally i steer clear of politics buta couple of points,

ptw yea they voted for Gore or Bush and got one of them. But we wont ever really know who it was really supposed to be because of the stuff ups. Here at least it would be a vote of collected representatives that the communtity as a whole has elected to choose that leader, or vote him/her if it comes to that too. Not by a legal system that bounces from upper to lower courts where glorified laywers (bbrrr) decide what my intent would have been with my vote.

SameOlds, the republic model put forward to me in last years referendum wasnt an acceptable alternative to the Goverment we already have.

What I said is that ive personally yet to see a better alternative to the system we in Australia currently have. The sytsem being put forward last year didnt give us the option of the Westminster form. If it had i probably would have voted for it.

Until i do see that there is an alternative and believe it to be a better system than the one we currently have, then i will vote to keep the Westminster system. Thats my opinion and as you say, in a Democracy im entitiled to it.

It may not be wise to pass judgment, nor it seems to put words in others mouths either.

'I may not agree with what you say, but i will defend to the death your right to say it.'

 

[Same Old's]

Grendel,

I was not talking about a particular republic, like the one proposed in the referendum, but rather republics in general.

 

[Ron]

Can anyone explain in relation to our political parties, eg liberal and labour. Which is what with republican or Democrat.

 

[Pessimistic]

Ron. They're both screaming right wing compared to most other countries. Democrats would be the most 'liberal' which in their terms means left.

Take Gore's consession speech - Kept going on about america being united again - by this he meant friendly countries around the world had better watch out ! He didn't even mention enemies !

I think America is one scary country ! Some reasons:

They are the only country to drop an A-bomb on another country - thank gor other countriae still have some weapons - or they might have dropped a few more !

They would have dropped more bombs, chemicals on other countries than ANY other country in history

Because they have all the capital and big guns they are forcing other countrie's work forces to be more efficient (poor) while their own workforce gets lazier and lazier

Look at the way they treat New Zealand a few years back. A peaceful country with 1 million people and 10 million sheep !

 

[magpie_joffa]

Another rivoting post in bigfooty.com!!!!

 

[Pessimistic]

Grendel,

Notwithstanding all my other reservations about the US of A. This recent thing demonstrates that a repulblic, properly constituted, can survive such a crisis.

But the remarks about Bush Jr being a puppet of Bush Sr are a bit wide. He sounds exacltly like Reagan to me . Is he Reagan's love child ?

 

[The invisible mullet]

I thought that original post must have come from John Elliott under a pseudonym. However it would only be by blatant cheating that Geelong would have won their last 4 grand finals so you can understand why G4E is happy with the Bush result.

 

[Mobbs]

According to my seppo missus, Democrats are more conservative, which they would call 'liberal', and Republicans are more extreme, which they would call 'labour'.

BUT, the yanks refer to a liberal government in reverse to how we would view it, hence their Democrats are more identifiable with our Labour, and their Republicans are more identifiable with our Liberal party.

Apparently, they WERE both right-wing, but for the Democrats to win any chance to vie for government at all, they have over the past years bowed to industry and big-wig company preference, and dulled themselves down to a much more conservative model.

Reagan was, from argument, an inexcusable moron who happened to win the redneck vote with what appeals to the easily-amused as 'charisma'. It seems as though he was, perhaps, 'cute', to the lowest common denominator.

Oh, and, Joffa, maybe this thread isn't all that rivetting, but who's post is the least rivetting amongst it? That would be yours, wouldn't it. Admit it, your messages even bore the bejeezus out of yourself.

Mind you, it was worth a reply, probably because it was so easy to do so. (That's also the explanation given by criminals who pick on easy targets.)

 

[Pessimistic]

I'm confused

Especially when John Howard appeals to 'Battlers'

But he's been successful - there's more 'Battlers' than ever before.

But John Howard highlights one advantage of the american system - They are only allowed 2 terms - He first started in early eighties

That wouls be like Gerald Ford eventually winning because he hung around long enough.

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[Bloodstained Angel]

Lets play spot the difference :

1) Malaysia : Prime Minister Mahatir uses political power to force the police and the courts to arrest, beat and convict Anwar Ibrahim on totally false charges of treason, conspiracy and sexual misconduct. Ibrahim is now rotting away inside a Malaysian jail somewhere.

2) USA : The Supreme Court, stacked with idealogical conservatives appointed by Ronald Reagan hands the result of the presidential election to the conservative candidate. In doing so they chose to ignore the fact that the election process in the State of Florida was so seriously flawed that it was unconstitutional.

In both cases, the supposedly independant judical system has been abused and corrupted by politicans.

Did somebody say hypocite ?

cheers

 

[Stealth bomber]

Simple explanation:

Republicans are racist, sexist, redneck, religious fundo homophobic gun-toting anti-abortion environment-destroying billionaire "make the rich richer and the poor poorer" w***ers.

Platform: "We love all Americans and wish to help all Americans...as long as you are white anglo-saxon Christian males who own property"


Democrats are waffling, shifty, tree-hugging, tax hiking blow-job giving bleeding heart communistic whiners.

Platform: "We will give you everything you deserve and ask for as long as you send us money."

Take your pick.