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[ December 08, 2004, 02:30: Message edited by: AMaster ]

 

Dear oh dear. Get a life, people! I'm trying to imagine something like that happening here. It would never happen. Just like we would never have crowds of people turn up to a rally just to hear a candidate speak and cheer them on as if they were a pop star.

 

Covered by insurance?!?

Come to think of it, I'm a little bit upset that I couldn't think of the title of the Led Zeppelin song posted today in the Song Quote Game...

 

So people come in, whine about the guy that got elected, and bill their insurance? That doctor has to be thinking one thing--God Bless America!

 

If they hate Bush so much, they can move to Canada until his term is over.

It always amazes me that those people who hate the person in power of there country never think about going to a different country for awhile.

 

This might move this thread to the alley but why is it that some people think that people should leave their country if they disagree with their leadership? Should no dissenters be allowed to stay? Is it not OK to dislike or even hate the political leadership of ones country?

Is the country of your birth, the country where you were brought up, where you have all your friends and family not your country anymore just because you disagree with the current regime?

 

It remeinds me of the time when the Spice Girls split up. Counseling was offered (in the UK) but to my knoweledge the 12 yearold's did not take up that kind offer!

 

joacquin - this is not about 'allowing' or 'disallowing' someone to stay. It is about their free choice. If they say that "Democracy is at stake," why do they wish to remain in the US, if democracy is that precious to them???
Aside from that, your speech reveals one thing - you are one of those people that would say: "we fully sympathise* with you, poor [insert opressed nationality's name here], but do keep your ilk and your filth in your country, we don't want you here." Oh, everyone would love to have 'opressed Americans,' if only for their money. But if they were the poorer class, and had no skills to offer to the recipient state? Forget it, it'd be harder to give them asylum than to Iraqis, or Afghani - there would be no prestige reasons to do so.

*) if we sympathise, we do not mean we empathise. We have too much money, too high life standard, and too much freedom to be able to empathise with what filth, scum and trash, such as you is feeling.

 

I think that getting group thearpy is going a wee bit too far.

I can sympathise with them but resorting to group therapy?????? They are adults and should get over it.

 

Well, I called them. Apparently, my policy specifically excludes Zep because "Robert Plant sometimes sounds like a girl". Oddly though, I'm covered for Rush.

 

That sounds like a rather extreme solution. I mean, maybe if you're 20 years old and single and looking to start a career for yourself, but for most people moving to a different country is simply economically impractical, extremely disruptive, and majorly inconvenient.

 

I've never found myself in a situation where I have hated my country's political leader enough to consider moving to another country. Mostly because I don't think one politician is all that different from another and the impact on my life would be minimal no matter who got into power.

 

These people are pathetic. Yet another case of someone wanting a label for their pain or an ailment to blame all their problems on.

"The doctor gave me a pill and I'm all better now."

What a crock.

 

Toughluck, you know not of what you speak. People have homes you know, places they have emotional attachments to. Most prefer to stay as far as possible and despite my view of Bush as somone who has dangerous authoritarian tendencies I would not let someone like that make me leave my home.

There are however instances when it is impossible to stay in your home country on pain of death and in my opinion every real democratic country should receive such people with open arms.

If you werent so ignorant I would quite offended by your post.

 

It's easy. People move countries if they think it will be beneficial, for whatever reason. I have moved countries for money, to broaden my mind, but never for election result reasons.

 

What is lost in this dialogue is that some people actually love this country. It may be hard for many on this board to believe, because of their distaste for anything that is remotely American. Nevertheless, some of us really believe that America's fate is worth a few bitter tears (not literally, of course) when considering it's current leadership.

Because of this regime, America is not only the laughing stock of most of the world, but 49 percent of its own people as well. I guess for some, the election really was about the future of the country; for others it was about Kerry or Bush - the men. Consider Kitrax's comment and suggestion that Americans should leave their country because they have contempt their leader. It never occured to him that this is as much their country as his, or Shrub's for that matter. He fails to see that it's not about the man, but about the nation. Or that one would only have to move to the "other" America: New York or California or another "blue" state, like Vermont.

As for me, I'm not really all the saddened by it. But I may be a little pissed off about it; perhaps I'm mad as all Hell about it. And I like being in a "red" state where I can continue to be a source of opposition and a chronic irritation to those who worship the commander-and-idiot of our once great nation. So don't worry just yet, I'm not going to Canada anytime soon. I know that Republicans love their elephants, and I guess Democrats love their jack-asses. So, perhaps we should make up as good Americans: We can hug your elephants, and you can kiss our jack-asses. Have a nice day.