And the GOP rejoices...

**Lorenzo_H** · 01-24-2007, 14:19

If I were able to vote in the 08 elections I would certainly not vote for that [appropriate expletive]. 2 terms of a lying Clintonian policy is enough.

Edit: Is Rice going to run for President then?

**Cowhead418** · 01-26-2007, 01:55

Any chance David Palmer is on the ticket? I used to be so excited that I'd be able to vote in this next election (I'm currently 16), but I've come to hate politicians so much that I just don't care anymore. Ah, American politics - where you vote not for you like best, but for who you hate least.

**AntiochusIII** · 01-26-2007, 06:33

Originally Posted by Cowhead418

Any chance David Palmer is on the ticket? I used to be so excited that I'd be able to vote in this next election (I'm currently 16), but I've come to hate politicians so much that I just don't care anymore. Ah, American politics - where you vote not for you like best, but for who you hate least.

You do realize, of course, that not voting is our age group's most aggravating problem. We are beaten over, robbed of our wages for some nonsensical taxes and social programs that'll never see the light of day, programs that actually benefit us are cut every time somebody wants to be "balanced budget advocate," our future prospects, and all sorts of highway robbery and nobody cares because we don't vote anyway.

It's the old people that get all those fat money from ye olde government, Medicaid, Social Security, and all that. Because they vote; those bloody partisan retirees with too much time in their hands, them. You see them lot every political convention out there, wearing stupid party shirts, waving dumb flags, giving standing ovations to every low-brow partisan demagoguery, electing in said idiotic demagogues, so they could get all the money the government robbed from their grandchildren. :P

Of course, once I vote ("if"), I'll be theoretically held accountable for whatever scummery my elected overlord decides to act upon (aka the German people voted Hitler in, it's their fault the Holocaust happens!), a guarantee for almost all the politicians out there. Which explains why many don't vote.

**Fisherking** · 01-26-2007, 09:05

Or for some people this may explain some of it.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

**Watchman** · 01-26-2007, 14:04

Originally Posted by Fisherking

Or for some people this may explain some of it.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

Mr. Mencken apparently flunked History in school.

**Fisherking** · 01-26-2007, 21:07

Originally Posted by Watchman

Mr. Mencken apparently flunked History in school.

Well, I don't know about that. It seems like the U.S. started out with a pretty good idea. Its just a shame that it only seems to go down hill.

I think that Franklin and Jefferson might agree with the first part of the statement and the latter seems to be holding its own for now.

But if you have the time why not try!

**Watchman** · 01-26-2007, 23:24

Not trying is around the most surefire way to get a crappy governement. And in a democracy (or what by that point used to be one, presumably), well, you reap what you sow.

**doc_bean** · 01-26-2007, 12:02

Originally Posted by AntiochusIII

It's the old people that get all those fat money from ye olde government, Medicaid, Social Security, and all that. Because they vote; those bloody partisan retirees with too much time in their hands, them.

Don't complain, over half the electorate here seems to be retired and living off of hand-outs. If we don't put an age limit on voting soon this country will be doomed.