A common misconception is that the U.S. is a Democracy. IT IS NOT!!! What we have is technically a Representative Republic. In a Democracy, everybody votes on everything. -----Original Message----- From: Dennis Plunkett To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU Date: Thursday, July 22, 1999 10:37 PM Subject: Re: [OT] I'm baaaaaack! Now politics and presedents etc. At 22:10 22/07/99 -0400, you wrote: >Hi Paul, > >Politics is truely remarkable,in an awful way,as you point out. However bad >our choice of presidents is, I do have to say one thing about your >comments. I do not believe that Ronald Regan was elected just because he >had been in the movies. He wasn't a super star, it had been a long time >since he was famous in the movies, AND he had a previous political career >as governor of the state of California, which has the most electoral votes >of any state in the union. > >Sean > >At 08:01 AM 7/23/99 +1000, you wrote: >>Isn't politics remarkable? >> >> I recall when I was still in school and thought government was about >>managing a country and looking after the people, providing services such >>as transport, medical care etc... >> >> Our pollies, colourful though they be, have mostly been eccentric in >>proportion to our scale to the world. We just sit and marvel at the >>sheer breathtaking scope of presidents elected on the basis of their >>career in the movies, their prowess as an adulterer (with the staff >>allocated them), or the vision of election to the senate on the basis of >>sympathy for the wife of such a former. >> >> Isn't politics remarkable? >>-- >> Cheers, >> Paul B. >> >| >| Sean Breheny >| Amateur Radio Callsign: KA3YXM >| Electrical Engineering Student >\--------------=---------------- >Save lives, please look at http://www.all.org >Personal page: http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/shb7 >mailto:shb7@cornell.edu ICQ #: 3329174 >________________________________________________________ >NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? >Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at >http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html > > Isn't your system great however, Only need to win in the large states like California etc. and your in. Democratic system? Not everyone has to vote, so only the people whom think that they care put your president in place, hence your very targeted political praofinalia and marketing (Yes I will call it that because that is what I think it is) So I think that the public get what they deserve. Then come that thing called media. Your presidential candedates use it to get the message accorss and often this may be very one sided (Do what we say, or we will spend your "donated" money somewhere else). So all in all for them to be targeted by other media sources is well... Yes as Bob D put it, they are not paid enough for what they do, but then one has to ask are they worth more? This has been an argumant battered around this neck of the woods every now and then. Hey, see how his thread has been completly altered from Tjarats trip to the bush GO MEDIA!!!! (See even we bend the truth...) Dennis