Politics - 4 November 2006

Does a free vote ensure a democracy ?

This is one of those half-truths.
We get a free vote, but the system forces us to choose a person, or a party who then becomes 'the king', well we call them Prime Ministers or Presidents.

There are countries where you vote for a representative, and the representatives must vote on issues, and the 'chairman' becomes the leader of the representatives...

Bottom line we don't elect a single person to become a 'freely elected dictator'.

2006-11-04 15:13:56 · 3 answers · asked by Caesar J. B. Squitti 1

"an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."

Imagine if he won the 2004 Presidency.

2006-11-04 15:09:26 · 15 answers · asked by Billy After the Incident 1

2006-11-04 15:01:21 · 9 answers · asked by notme 5

air america

2006-11-04 15:01:07 · 6 answers · asked by rjmahoney66 1

"If your parents are poor and cant or wont send you to a college you'll end up in the military and they'll send you to Iraq where you'll be repeatedly sodomized by arabs"

2006-11-04 14:54:25 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-11-04 14:45:05 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

Even though the word privacy appears nowhere in it.

2006-11-04 14:40:21 · 15 answers · asked by notme 5

...surely he's the dumbest excuse for a president ever. Why not just kick him out?

2006-11-04 14:39:15 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://www.gvny.com/columns/schiff/wallet.html
never get mistakenly shot by cops again!

2006-11-04 14:34:51 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-11-04 14:26:20 · 6 answers · asked by Trigger 2

An obscure provision in a huge military authorization bill that President George W. Bush recently signed terminates the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction.

The clause has generated surprise and some outrage among lawmakers who say they had no idea it was in the final legislation.

The federal oversight agency, led by a Republican lawyer named Stuart W. Bowen Jr., has sent U.S. officials to jail on bribery and conspiracy charges, exposed disastrously poor construction work by well-connected companies like Cheneys Halliburton Co. and Parsons Iraq Joint Venture, and discovered that the military did not properly track hundreds of thousands of weapons it shipped to Iraqi security forces.

(I have a good Idea as to why the one office charged with exposing corruption in Iraq has been terminated, but I would really like to know what you think.)
SO......What do you think?

2006-11-04 14:25:36 · 2 answers · asked by big-brother 3

I personal;ly know he was not taking a shot at our troops he was making fun of the president's inteligence level. Why would anyone call our troops stupid espectialy a Vietnam vertran?

2006-11-04 14:05:28 · 16 answers · asked by firedemonedge 2

Even a number of Republicans feel the same way.

2006-11-04 14:02:39 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-11-04 13:57:09 · 15 answers · asked by roger k 2

please repug ....... instead of giving me the thumbs down ........ answer this...... are those insurgents in iraq terrorists .......... if they are terrorists ...... then why do you call people like osama and the taliban ......... FREEDOM FIGHTERS AND HEROES ...... when they were fighting the soviet occupation in agfhanistan ......... you supply them with firearms ........ stinger missiles ..... these are documented facts and you can't deny it ........ and if you called those iraqi insurgents ........ terrorists ........ you are admitting that you are as much responsible for 911 as OSAMA

please answer this question ....... repug ........ or from this day on ......DO NOT REFER TO THOSE INSURGENTS AS TERRORISTS ......... AND THE PATRIOT ACT ........ SHOULDN'T APPLY TO THEM

i want to be politically correct ......... by supporting the us troops in iraq ............. but i couldn't without calling myself a HYPOCRITE

2006-11-04 13:51:29 · 5 answers · asked by AlfRed E nEuMaN 4 preSIDent 4

2006-11-04 13:49:50 · 16 answers · asked by carolb321 1

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061105/ap_on_re_us/haggard_sex_allegations His excuse was that he did not have sex with the man and only bought meth for supposedly academic purposes...the reason it's pitiful is that a man in his position would have been careful to be untainted...it's so hypocritical. I always thought that the loudest voices in anti gay rhetoric were probably closet homosexuals who were afraid and disgusted with themselves and that is why they talked the way they did, but this certainly confirms it for me. I am a straight Liberal man and can see no reason philosophically to judge other persons...judge me for being open mined but don't judge me for any unethical actions. I believe in my creed and am ethical to it. why can't everyone see them for what they are doing in the first place?

2006-11-04 13:12:21 · 10 answers · asked by Ford Prefect 7

and what did he do?

2006-11-04 13:09:43 · 18 answers · asked by ~mary~ 3

Have you ever seen any movie, or video in which it had excerpts from terrorists? I just watched one (Obsession). For a while I thought the other conservatives were calling you guys terrorists, just because they didn't agree with you. But, when I was watching it, I hear a lot of the same things from the terrorists as you guys. The terrorists call Bush the devil, and you guys call him the anti-christ.

Do you guys know anything about terrorism?

2006-11-04 13:09:00 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

Could a show of BRAVADO cause people to stay home because they think they have it won? What will they do when they fail to take the Majority?

2006-11-04 13:01:58 · 13 answers · asked by daydoom 5

2006-11-04 13:01:14 · 16 answers · asked by older_fat_male 3

I believe my infant son may be growing to be a liberal,

When he opens his mouth to talk, only a bunch of erratic sounds come out......Like John Kerry. He crys uncontrollably until he gets his bottle....Like Ted Kennedy, And Everytime I turn around he's full of crap.....and needs someone to do almost everything for him.... PLEASE HELP!

2006-11-04 12:58:50 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

I don't really know exactly.

2006-11-04 12:54:08 · 17 answers · asked by ~mary~ 3

Weren't the conservatives saying the same things about womens rights? Blacks being free? Blacks having equal rights?

Same old crap, different bag. Only the conservatives want to go backwards and restrict rights.

Those that have the rights are the ones who want to restrict them for others.

2006-11-04 12:45:05 · 11 answers · asked by notme 5

Or are they really this stupid?

2006-11-04 12:41:49 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

The video in question is the Doubletree hotel video, which government watchdog (sometime propaganda outlet) Judicial Watch says has been promised to them on November 9th.

According to a CNN FOIA request of 2002, a nearby hotel's video DID DID DID capture the impact.

The Doubletree and a Sheraton Hotel are the only hotels within view of the pentagon crash site. The FBI says no Sheraton video exists.

But according to Jacqueline Maguire special agent, counterterrorism division, signed under penalty of perjury (28USCs/s1746) the..."Doubletree hotel video did NOT capture the impact"

So which is it to be? Does a hotel video capture the impact or doesn't it?

On NOV 9, maybe we will find out. Or maybe we will get another grainy, slow-framed video that shows nothing but an explosion.....and no Boeing jet to be found....just like at the crash site.

2006-11-04 12:35:32 · 12 answers · asked by big-brother 3

the title says it all

2006-11-04 12:33:33 · 31 answers · asked by A F 1

Or just another lie?

2006-11-04 12:33:02 · 22 answers · asked by notme 5

A Muslim told me the perception amongst Muslims is that USA wants to destroy Islam. Muslims, please tell why. What did USA do to create this illogical perception?

2006-11-04 12:22:59 · 20 answers · asked by farahwonderland2005 5

2006-11-04 12:22:13 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous