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Not that the Republicans need any help... hehe... after all, the party held the White House two-thirds of the time the past 36 years.

Let's just say this... I am a lot more comfortable with Bush than I would be with someone like Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson and Michael Moore or Bush might be a tossup....

The weirdest thing I heard about this whole thing was she is up for more prison time for that sexual relationship with her superior officer(22 years) than for the abuse.(15 years).

If electronic voting becomes the norm, I'd like to see a double system where you vote, and it gives you a paper print out, which you then stick in a ballot box... so if something happened, you still have something that you can count to determine the winner...

I just saw Political Machine on CNN a few minutes ago.

Don't forget Coulter....

Well, it would have to be a pretty big migration equal the Reagan Democrat movement.

But at the same time, I think the left is more apt to attack its own too.

I was always under the impression(perhaps wrongly) that the conservative side has always been a bit more tightly-knit than the left is...

The Flame Warriors page... basically a description of most of the common types of people who fight on forums. Link

I think statistically speaking, you might be less likely to get a nutjob on a smaller forum... and when you do... you know it almost immediately.

There are a lot of times I start writing a comment... and I stop because "its just not worth it" because I can foresee the whole argument, and I know that I am going to get a lot more pissed off... so I refrain a lot of times.

The late 80's... you mean when it was under Lynn Cheney's guard?

Of all the major ways to look at international politics, realism is generally the most accurate view to have.

Tell that to the Philipines...

I think Dennis Miller at the DNC vs. say Al Franken at the RNC would be a funny set of columns for USA Today....

Oh, that reporter was a "major league asshole" and you know it! Big Time.

Of course, a counter argument could be made based on the scale of meddling... but that is more a matter of semantics than anything.

Maybe that's exactly what they want you to think...

Just went to the site and found something interesting... the first name on the list is from: (Jamestown, RI USA, Overseas) hmmmm interesting. And since a citizen of a countr

Honestly, my first reaction to the site was a shrug, just as it be if someone set up a similar site to collect 2 million signatures to influence the French to get rid Chirac. In the history of online petitions, has any ever achieved their goal? I think the idea of them trying to influence our elections is somewhere clo

The true winner here: W.W. Norton... http://www.wwnorton.com/catalog/fall04/032671.htm Edit: The reason why I said the above was I am assuming that the government picked up some of the costs of publishing the report, and since it is so long, if you want to read it, it is probably a lot easier just to buy it rather than download it.</fon

I think the general feeling being expressed here is: Do as we say, not as we do.

And of course, Hobbes didn't advocate relinquishing all your rights to the state... just enough for the state to protect you from your fellow citizens and other countries.

Well, there is the whole matter of the U.S. State Department influencing the 1962-3 Canadian Federal Election...so I think it evens out. http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/issue43/articles/1962_1963_canada.htm