From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Mon Dec 30 2002 - 19:09:56 MST
Eugene writes
> Actually, I do think US is a banana republic by now.
C'mon Eugen. I'm sure that you can think of 30,000
evil things that the U.S. is doing that no banana republic
could ever do. Are you really sure that you want to
tar the genuine banana republics with the charge of
being like the U.S.?
> So we have a somewhat less-than-charismatic successor to
> the throne which has to fix some loose ends daddy couldn't.
He may not seem charismatic to you or me, but have you
seen his approval numbers lately? Even more, you could
hardly have called it a "throne" before the recent
elections that gave his party control of both the
other organs.
> Sure, even with the vote fraud (irregularities in a
> southern chronicle pork barrel state run by a yet another
> relative) it was a pretty fair vote.
Yes, it was. They never managed to substantiate the
charges of voter fraud, at least not on a scale that
wouldn't have embarrassed the ward heelers and bosses
of Chicago or New York.
Lee
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