Sir Bandelot

Ok, but only if you wear the funny hat

Whatever turns your crack

I can't speak for others, but I myself did not vote because I couldn't bring myself to support any of the candidates. None of them inspired me to want to vote. I have no confidence in their leadership. I would never vote for Harper because of his anti-Canadian attitude. The CPC is not a true conservative party anyways. The liberal leader was just a bad joke. NDP and Green never had a chance and seemed like they would say anything to anyone, in order to get more votes. Gilles Duceppe, while he has charisma and leadership I can't even vote for him if I wanted to. So I went out to play hockey that night with some friends, and came home feeling alot more satisfied.

Thats why I have you, sweetheart...

You mean the "S" word? No, please I won't accept any of your conventional labels either. I don't believe in the welfare nanny-state. I would not vote NDP. Politicians to me are inherently tellers of un-truths hence anarchy is better. I'm an anarcho-cynicalist. We take turns to act as a kind of executive officer of the week but decisions have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting...

Not quite. I do believe in system of government but I also have some anarchist tendencies, sometimes. Like when I perceive that what we have is a corrupted political system that inherently must serve the wealthiest and most powerful groups in society. I'm talking about the cutting of special deals, bending of the rules in favour of big businesses, making profit for a select few now at the expense of the future. I believe in fairness and equal rights for anyone, and the protection of the individual from profiteers. I do not adhere to a particular party or fixed ideology, but pick and choose what I like from any of them, depending on the needs of the situation.

"Bring it on."

If you must really know, I'm an anarchist.

Its a slippery slope. So if someone in a cave tells his followers to go and kill people, they shouldn't be responsible? I doubt most people would agree with that interpretation. There must be some accountablility for saying certain things that affect others. Speech, or in the larger sense the conveying of ideas through some media is a form of propaganda and can be very powerful. What we see on TV and read in the news can change the opinions of people. It can influence young or impressionable minds who have no frame of reference, to put the information in context. Thats why I believe there should be some rules, there should even be some standard of decency, when information is given in public forums. Whether that be TV, Radio, signs in store windows or the mottos on peoples T-shirts.

"You Liberals". Do not call me a liberal.

I think it does matter, because criticism of Powells endorsement based on his race can only have a negative backlash for John McCain, IMO. Among undecided voters, for sure. There's probably alot of military families who also respect Colin Powell, and they won't appreciate that. My view is, here is a man who's served is country, and all they do now, is call him nigger. I stand by what I said earlier- the behaviour of certain people, in particular parts of the US media in this election, is repugnant to civilized people.

Interestingly in his press conderence today Dion spoke english with more clarity than I have ever heard from him before. Perhaps we will see a more gutsy and outspoken Dion, now that he has little left to lose.

I meant with the exception of obvious people like that, or like David Duke. I don't think thats a valid comparison. In this case it seems to be simply because he's black, without precedent.

Isn't it interesting how, when a white person endorses a white candidate, we wouldn't call it a race issue.

What do you mean by foreigners? How about people from Britain, or the United States, would they be still allowed?

Sure, here you go- http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Politics/story?...5979&page=1

A fine example of the illusion of Demockracy.

"Many places in the world", includes any place where there are people who object to racism. That would even be in some places in the United States. Does that clarify it for all you all?

Problem is "that one" would really tie McCain to the Bush administration, 4 more years of the same old same old, and thats not what the maverick wants to do.

I think many people would respect him because he was doing his duty as instructed from the administration, even though he did so reluctantly. Every soldier is trained to so what they're told, not what they believe, and the fact that he later admitted it makes him look more honest to me than most are at his level. It took some courage to criticize the admin, and he may have paid for it in part by losing his position sometime thereafter. So the way I see it is, he did what was instructed to do, - a plus, and then later came clean revealing more to the world about the secretive manipulations of the Bush administration, another plus. In any case a positive endorsement from a high profile mlitary leader does help Obama. Edit- What is really repugnant is the amount of racism on display in many US media articles... I think it shows how deeply racism still affects the United States, and I think many places in the world where racism is *less* pervasive are watching it with great disdain. Although in some ways, bringing this out in the open is a positive step towards understanding and eliminating it. If/when Obama wins, it will also be a major positive step because the racism is on both sides, and this will help blacks to have more self-esteem and be less suspicious, and help many whites to get over it too.

Yes, something like that. Although, judging by Joe Clarkes attitude, it didn't go down that way. I mean, new wine in new skins. And a fancy old label

My view is, Liberal party has no future. Not in the current situation with the potential candidates. too many skeletons in the closet, too many bad memories, no visionary leaders with charisma. They should go the way of the PC party.

I dont see how you could expect much else to happen. There were already many grumblings about Dions leadership long before this election. many felt he was the wrong choice right from the start. But he was given support, by Chretien I think and allowed a chance to see what he could do. The loss in this election was simply the last and biggest nail in his coffin. As leader of the oldest and most powerful party he had to perform, or else he will be removed simple as that. This aint no social club, they have a job to do and a lot of other peoples jobs, and money is at stake. You are surprised that the leader of a federal party would run it his/her own way, with tight control and not listen much to the opinions of others? How naive. They are all like that including Layton, Duceppe and no doubt the same goes for May too. Thats what being the leader means, someone needs to maintain control over the big machine, and rein in the wackos. Get over it.

I do not blame conservatism, I welcome it.

Well U know what? I have received nothing more than a 2.5% wage increase for the past 10 years, not even enough to cover the cost of living. I know it used to be that one partner would work and the other stay home and take care of the kids, now both work just to make ends meet. We are poorer than our parents generation. My folks had a cottage. Thats on one income. But I can't even afford one on two. So I'm not going to go out and buy any more toys, or a fancy car, I'll just make do with what I have. Re-use, re-cycle. And thats the other thing, people are realizing that our excess consumer based system is causing real problems with the environment, and we want to conserve what we still have. So the old system, the economy cannot continue in the way it has in the past. Subconsciously people know it, and are making small changes that have impact on the global economy. And most of the screaming and hype that we hear about it, is coming from the rich bastards because they are losing their profit margins. They are the ones who it will hurt first, and the most. When you already live in a ghetto, it doesn't make as much difference.