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THE GAS MAN

1) In England at the presant Tony Blair is hanging on by a thred to his position after no WMD where found in Iraq, how big an issue is it over thier?

2) How do the American people fell about the questionable way in which Bush became president?

 

CheebaMonkey

I'll just answer number 2.

He became president by legitimate terms (I still don't like him though). He had enough electoral votes. I'm sure that it has been suggested to get rid of the electoral college, and just go by the number of votes someone receives from registered voters. I also think there was some incident in the past where a member of the electoral college voted for someone else, despite the fact that the person who they should had voted for won the popular vote. Apparently (I think) they can do that.

I would much rather go by the popular vote (I think that's the right term).

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THE GAS MAN

Not totally understanding your political ways, it looked more bent than Rock Hudson, from this side of the pond. Thanks for putting the record straight and i too still think he's a (choose any profanity).

SkinnyP

It's just goofy that it's not the voters that pick the president.

Stray Cat

I listen to Sean Hannity sometimes, who is a very strong republican/radio talk show host. Basically he thinks that republicans can do no wrong, and democrats can do no right.

Every time someone brings up the issue of no WMD being found in Iraq, he says something like, "The mass graves were reason enough for me." The only problem is that we didn't invade them because of their mass graves; we really didn't go in there at all because of what he was doing to his own people. We went in there because of errorism....oh, excuse me....terrorism. We wanted to rid his country of WMD. And now that we have found none, they are scrambling for any justification they can find, which is really weak in my opinion. We could've invaded any number of countries because of what they do to their own people.

So basically what the republicans are doing now is deflecting the issue onto something else. They REALLY don't want to hear about it, and not too many Americans hear news about NOT finding weapons.

So how do you mean that Tony Blair is hanging on by a thread?

 

THE GAS MAN

Every time the news comes on Blair's problems have got bigger. The people of the Uk just ar'nt having it.
The public believe Bush is a crook and Blair is his puppet. We believe it was all done for the oil and as Bush has conections in the industry, he forced us (UK) in to commiting a terrible crime. Not every one mind, just most of us.
On a personal note, i hate the way Bush smirks, even when he's talking about people dying. You can tell he's a bastard.

IAmTheWalrus212

Dern tootin.

Didn't know he was hanging on by a thread. No mention whatsoever of it (from what I've seen). and about number 2, yar.

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THE GAS MAN

Are you looking in the right places. If you caought our news today, you will see in parlement today he had a barraking from several members of his own party. This has followed weeks of pressure from all angles about his integraty. Also he has refused to look into the fact no WMD where found. This will make him even less popular. Another thing he is doing at present is forcing us into Europe against our will.This isn't the USA where the president is god. Cinton should have at least been sacked if not hung.This is England, (remember Thacher,) his job can go from underneath him very quickly. I have watched the news in the USA many times, it is also, nothing like ours. I'm not saying ours is not bias, but compared to the USA, where it's just propaganda non stop, somethings over here are not sacred and the truth will be known.

MrIMStoned

What are electoral votes? Whats the difference?

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Stray Cat

Each state gets a certain number of electoral votes based on its population. If a republican wins the majority of popular votes in, say, California, then that candidate gets that state's electoral votes. Whoever gets the most electoral votes wins the presidency.

The reason people like to b*tch about Bush is because more people actually voted for Gore (he won the popular vote), but Bush won the electoral college votes.

The reason they started the electoral college is because they felt that too many voters were too uneducated to vote correctly, so it's kinda like the entire state votes one way or the other.