Re: CHAT (POLITICS!!!): Putting the duh in Florida

On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, And Rosta wrote:

>Adrian:
>> John Cowan:
>>
>> > > This reminds me of my pet idea: allocate a bunch of new electoral votes
>> > > for citizens of other nations. After all, who is President of the U.S.
>> > > affects everyone on the planet.
>>
>> I assure you, the last thing non-Americans want is an election in which we
>> have to be attentive to US affairs and be aware of US culture...
Sounds like a typically USAmerican attitude!

>Lots of non-Americans, me included, are very keen on US culture, especially
>the more exportable aspects (e.g. _Friends_, E. A. Poe, John Cowan, Orson
>Welles, James McCawley, bits of the Constitution, as opposed to rife firearms
>and assassination & lack of affordable health care).
Well, yer get the bad with the good: McDonald's, crappy movies,
crappy music, MTV (etc.), almost every tv show produced in the
last 15 years or so, a load of crappy tv shows produced in the
preceeding 35 years, etc... So yer can like it or lump it.

Padraic.

>--And.