Article from Britain (concerning the election).

[2strokebloke]

Perhaps a tad too cynical, and more amusing to read than it is informative, though a couple of good points are made: http://globalization.about.com/gi/dy...FArticleId=743

Here at the Daily Reckoning, we're disappointed, too. We were hoping both candidates would lose.

The candidates stir up the mob of lumpenvoters however they can - dredging up from the bottom of the pot the most sordid and titillating sentiments: One offers short visions of apocalypse...and stands tall as the man who can protect them. The other says he will give voters more pills - at someone else's expense, of course...and a whole range of new bribes...while also cutting the federal deficit in half!

Besides, once elected politicians often do the exact opposite of what they promised to do anyway. George Bush was elected as a "conservative" with a "humble" foreign policy. What a disappointment when he turned out to be the most radical president since Franklin Roosevelt.

But the voters like him. And why shouldn't they? His neo-con advisors have given us a jolly good war. We are told we are kicking the enemy's butt...and, at the very same time, the enemy is said to be a bigger threat than ever before! Therefore, we must spend more money...and launch new campaigns...and kick his butt even more! Did you ever have such a splendid war, dear reader? The more we win, the less safe we are.

No one dares suggest that by kicking fewer butts, there might be fewer people who wanted to kick ours. That's the sort of reflection that would get a candidate branded as "weak," which is to say, the kind of comment that would take real strength to make

This next part made me laugh a little:

Ohio was a key state. It is in America's "rust belt," part of the gritty chain of depressing places where people used to make things. Now, many of the things they used to make are made in Asia.

[YogsVR4]

Not much in the way of amusing. More like the ramblings of a loser.

[LotusDreams]

That's a little intense. I don't think the best way to make a point is to offend people, but *shrug*, I guess he thinks so. A little more eductation with a little less drama would go a long way.

[lazysmurff]

i think its rather hilarious

[Flatrater]

More like whining. Want some cheese to go with that?

[RedLightning]

yea its just the ramblings of a person whos oppinions dont count.

[taranaki]

Funny how the Republican supporters on this board can lampoon Kerry into the ground but have absolutely no sense of humor when a few home truths about their preferred assclown are presented as satire.He's absolutely spot on with his observation of the paradox that Bush has had three years to safeguard his country against further terrorist attacks, but campaigned on the platform that he had failed so badly to do so that Senator Kerry couldn't keep the remains of Al-Qaueda at bay.....

[thegladhatter]

Originally Posted by Um...Nameless Dork

yea its just the ramblings of a person whos oppinions dont count.

...has nothing to do with lack of sense of humor...

...makes a good point though.

[taranaki]

Originally Posted by thegladhatter

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Nice edit there,gladhatter, you see to be finally learning.

[RSX-S777]

I shudder to think what jokes the international community is making at our expense...but find them funny nevertheless. In the end, the biggest joke is the one we've just played on ourselves. But I'm not laughing.

[Rbraczyk]

Funny how the outside world makes fun of us, and we are so oblivious as to how serious they are.