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Liquor Dealer · 06-20-2003, 05:11 AM

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Originally posted by archer2371
Canada, it's like that loft apartment over that great party.
~Robin Williams

I mean, this is kind of ridiculous, I mean, when you have people in your own country that can't stand the government here, why bother to go out and poll Europeans, or Koreans, or Canadians, etc. to find out what they feel. Everyone will have an opinion because they are entitled to it (at least in the countries that took part in the poll.) Do I think we have the best type of government available on this Earth? Yes, do I think it is the best thing since the Pam and Tommy Lee tapes... er,.... I mean sliced bread? Hell no. Our government has it's misgivings, but that's because it's a system set up by man, and man is not perfect, he errs, and things he creates will err. I am a supporter of Bush, I think he could have waited just a little bit longer and gotten more international support, but I still respect the man. Not everyone in those countries polled will want to come to America because they already have a good deal of freedom much like the United States. Yet we still have Cubans who would rather swim all the way to our shores than get on a boat, get a warm blanket and soup, and then be shipped right back to Cuba. I mean, that's what I think people are referring to when they say a lot of foreigners want to come here. They are talking about their tired and huddled masses, that wish for an opportunity that would be a hell of a lot better than what they are experiencing in their own little oppressed nation. If I were born Scottish (which I sometimes wish I was) I don't think I'd like to leave permanently, because I have my family and friends all around me, sure I'd take trips, but I'd probably stay on the British Isles. Sometimes I wish that I had a president that was as eloquent as Tony Blair, but then I think, ya know, I think that I would rather have a POTUS who could explain stuff to the common man better than he could to intellectuals. But that's just my two cents worth, and I hope you guys get something out of it.

Very well said! When one realizes that the ideas for our government were first put on paper over two hundred years ago by men most of the world would now call total radicals and that this government has evolved into what it has become is awesome. Some of what it has become has been good - some not so good, but it has bent and swayed - adapted, to the ideas of the day. It may not be perfect but it beats the hell outa' whatever comes in second!