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 06/16/2004 04:03:40 PM · #1
I'm just curious, How many people here follow U.S. pollitics? As an Ammerican, my perspective is severely limmited, and I'm curious how much people in other countries are following the election. Also, how many people know the animal symbols of the two main parties?

thanks,

Quickshutter
 06/16/2004 04:10:56 PM · #2
If you know, just post a "yes" otherwise post "no"
thanks

06/16/2004 04:17:21 PM · #3
i would also love to hear oppinions from other countries about whats going on w/ america right now.
 06/16/2004 04:17:33 PM · #4
No
 06/16/2004 04:20:36 PM · #5
I take very little notice of what goes on politically south of the border. I have better things to do.

Oh and by the way, did you know that we Canadians will be having a federal election on June 28th? Bet most Americans don't.
 06/16/2004 04:22:55 PM · #6
Aren't the political signs for the 2 parties "ASS and "Dumbass".
 06/16/2004 04:48:00 PM · #7
No, I dont follow politics as I dislike politics. Yes, I know the two animals. I'm a foreigner in the US, does that count?
 06/16/2004 04:49:33 PM · #8
Originally posted by Zman8:
Aren't the political signs for the 2 parties "ASS and "Dumbass".

hehe...sounds about right, but ASS and BiggerASS.
I live in CO and could give a crap about either party. I would rather see all that stripped away and vote for the PERSON that fits the job and will do a good job. Right now we get stuck with choosing the lesser of the two asses presented. I don't follow any of it, except hearing talk shows when driving to work. At this time neither of the two offered appeal to me. So I will look to what the other partys are throwing up as a representation.
Then again, maybe I will just close my eys and point on the paper to vote. Sounds good enough this year.
 06/16/2004 05:01:01 PM · #9
in my oppinion, considering the time we live in, if you live in america, are of age to vote and dont keep up with whats going on w/ our government right now, you should not be allowed to vote.

Message edited by author 2004-06-16 17:04:16.
 06/16/2004 05:14:12 PM · #10
So your Choices entry is this? I always try to not show anything that isn't somewhat "universal", since there is such a vast variety of people here. I unfortunately misjudged an entry for Teams w/o Players that the photographer was later able to point out was a picture of a British tradition before some type of game (sorry, can't remember which one). I had wrongly thought there was NO connection to sports at all. As far as DPC goes, I personally prefer to have a place about photography and what humor or thoughts that brings on about life, but not real politics or religion per se. That is just my opinion, of course.
 06/16/2004 06:03:25 PM · #11
We're having another election? Wow...guess i should watch more tv!
 06/16/2004 06:07:48 PM · #12
First I heard of it.... Is it election time again?
 06/16/2004 06:11:10 PM · #13
Originally posted by MadMordegon:
in my oppinion, considering the time we live in, if you live in america, are of age to vote and dont keep up with whats going on w/ our government right now, you should not be allowed to vote.


I agree 100%.

Whoa! First Olyuzi agreed with me in another thread, and now I'm agreeing with Madmordegon. Maybe it's time to rethink my positions. :-)

Ron
 06/16/2004 07:41:58 PM · #14
lol holy shit Ron, you feeling ok latly?
"you cant resist the powers of the dark side!" :p
 06/16/2004 07:45:06 PM · #15
Maybe there's some planetary alignment or alter space-time continuum that has created this (dare I say it) pattern developing here... ;o) LOL
 06/16/2004 10:07:08 PM · #16
I am Canadian.
The two animals which symbolize the two parties in the U.S.
(Republican and Democrats)
would be.....An Elephant and a Donkey (mule).
G.W. Bush is Republican as was his father, Reagan a Democrat.
I was always curious as to how Reagan ended up with a Republican as a V.P. (I didn't follow his term very closely) Was the man that open minded and co-operative. If so...he was special.

Whew!
You guys better know something about Canadian Politics.

P.S. with regard to another thread about similar photos...Hull Quebec and Ottawa Ontario are within spitting distance of each other.
Regards.
 06/16/2004 10:11:18 PM · #17
AND
if Grigrigirl was running for office. I would have sat up and taken notice. ....lol
My take on your present situation.
George W. Bush is a warmonger, I say that as much as I firmly believe response to 911 had to take form. Didn't have his ducks in a row on Iraq. You guys are in a sticky mess on that one. You'll be accused of abandoning a bad situation when turnover of power takes place.

Not sure if I like Kerry.....but George W. is a bully and closed minded.

U.S.A. on a whole. Very special country who have advanced the whole world in many ways. I don't mind living in their shadow north of the border here.

Message edited by author 2004-06-16 22:20:32.
 06/16/2004 10:52:57 PM · #18
Originally posted by MadMordegon:
in my oppinion, considering the time we live in, if you live in america, are of age to vote and dont keep up with whats going on w/ our government right now, you should not be allowed to vote.


So who decides who is to be allowed to vote? The thought police?
 06/16/2004 11:05:38 PM · #19
Originally posted by bongo:
I am Canadian.
The two animals which symbolize the two parties in the U.S.
(Republican and Democrats)
would be.....An Elephant and a Donkey (mule).
G.W. Bush is Republican as was his father, Reagan a Democrat.
I was always curious as to how Reagan ended up with a Republican as a V.P. (I didn't follow his term very closely) Was the man that open minded and co-operative. If so...he was special.

Whew!
You guys better know something about Canadian Politics.

P.S. with regard to another thread about similar photos...Hull Quebec and Ottawa Ontario are within spitting distance of each other.
Regards.


Reagan was a democrat who switched to the republican party when he perceived the democratic party as moving too far to the left. During the 1960 presidential campaign he and other disenchanted democrats formed an organization called "Democrats for Nixon" (the republican nominee who lost to John F. Kennedy). In 1966 Reagan, who had never run for public office before, ran for governor of California as a republican and won. Reagan reached back to his more liberal political past in 1976 when he was fighting incumbent president Gerald Ford for the republican nomination. Reagan announced that if nominated (he wasn't, Ford was) he would pick liberal Pennsylvania republican Richard Schweiker as his running mate.

Message edited by author 2004-06-16 23:06:51.
 06/17/2004 01:08:12 AM · #20
frychikn:
Very good. You've changed my tainted view that "Americans know little of their own politics". That view by the way is perpetuated by the likes of Leno and Letterman which we get a healthy dose of north of the border here.

Thankyou for the facts.
06/17/2004 01:26:40 AM · #21
North American, or South American?
 06/17/2004 02:02:17 AM · #22
I get it.
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