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No More Campaign Commercials.... YAY!!! By: ScottN on 11/7/2000; 11:55 AM Well, Election Day is here, and the Election Bunny will be hiding Election Eggs for all the good little boys and girls... Oops! Wrong day! Sorry! Seriously, I am so glad that after today I won't have to listen to that stupid oh-so-sincere lady from the US Chamber o'Commerce asking me to "tell Jane Harman and Adam Schiff to stop scaring seniors", or any other f***ing political commercial for a while... I voted. Bright and early, on the way to work. Polls in CA open at 7, I voted at 730, and I wasn't even the first one at the polling place. I gave my "I Voted" sticker to my daughter to wear (took her into the voting booth with me). I won't say who I voted for for Prez, that's my business and none of yours (I actually told that to an exit poller in '92 -- "None of your d*mn business"). But I am proud to say that I voted no on every single initiative. In general, nowadays initiatives are generally by corporations or politicians trying to get something by that they couldn't get through normal channels. Some of the propositions here in CA are funny... Prop 38 (school vouchers) ran campaign ads saying it would improve the public schools, reduce crime, and make your laundry whiter (OK, I added the part about the laundry, but they really said the rest). Prop 39 tugged at our heartstrings with a "for the children" plea... They also said that it would create a tough new 55% standard for school bonds... Of course, the current standard is 2/3 (66%). So they want to make it easier to raise property taxes... We already had that fight 20 years ago in CA... Frankly, I'm sick and tired of the whole thing. We're going to get a loser no matter who wins... There's got to be a better way... Of course, this is a very bad way to run a country, except for all the others, which are worse...
Re: No More Campaign Commercials.... YAY!!! By: Seth Dillingham on 11/7/2000; 12:20 PM On Tuesday, November 7, 2000 at 5:12 PM, ScottN (anon0001.Dreamzone-Redux@free-conversant.com) wrote: >Frankly, I'm sick and tired of the whole thing. We're going to get a >loser no matter who wins... There's got to be a better way... Of course, >this is a very bad way to run a country, except for all the others, which >are worse... Cool. I just said exactly the same thing on libertysearch.com (see my reply to http://www.libertysearch.com/427). Seth
Re: No More Campaign Commercials.... YAY!!! By: Brian Carnell on 11/7/2000; 1:19 PM Scott N wrote: >Some of the propositions here in CA are funny... Prop 38 (school vouchers) ran campaign ads saying it would improve the public schools, reduce crime, and make your laundry whiter (OK, I added the part about the laundry, but they really said the rest). Hey, how is the Rob Reiner cigarette tax doing? That was approved in 1998 if I remember correctly, and I'm curious how Californians feel about it now and if the revenue is being generated that was projected, etc.
Re: No More Campaign Commercials.... YAY!!! By: ScottN on 11/7/2000; 4:31 PM Does anyone remember the exact democracy quote and its source? For some reason, I keep thinking either Mark Twain or Winston Churchill!
Re: No More Campaign Commercials.... YAY!!! By: ScottN on 11/7/2000; 4:34 PM The closest I could find on Bartleby was by J. Nehru: Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse. However, this is not the original quote I was thinking of...
RE: No More Campaign Commercials.... YAY!!! By: Seth Dillingham on 11/7/2000; 5:47 PM On Tuesday, November 7, 2000 at 9:47 PM, ScottN (anon0001.Dreamzone-Redux@free-conversant.com) wrote: >Does anyone remember the exact democracy quote and its source? For some >reason, I keep thinking either Mark Twain or Winston Churchill! It was Churchill, but I don't remember the exact quote. Seth
RE: No More Campaign Commercials.... YAY!!! By: Seth Dillingham on 11/7/2000; 6:08 PM On Tuesday, November 7, 2000 at 10:47 PM, Seth Dillingham (seth@macrobyte.net) wrote: >>Does anyone remember the exact democracy quote and its source? For some >>reason, I keep thinking either Mark Twain or Winston Churchill! > >It was Churchill, but I don't remember the exact quote. I have it now. http://TruerWords.free-conversant.com/index/2000/11/07#TW388 Seth
RE: No More Campaign Commercials.... YAY!!! By: Peter on 11/25/2000; 3:16 PM What Churchill said was that democracy was "the worst form of government, apart from all the others." Peter.
RE: No More Campaign Commercials.... YAY!!! By: Peter on 11/25/2000; 7:48 PM And as for the title, I LOVE campaign commercials (or Party Political Broadcasts, as they are called here). For Christmas 1998, I asked for a 3 hour video of the highlights of the best for the last fifty years. It is great. I think propaganda is fascinating. Peter.
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