ftr Kmar - our politicians get every bit as much of a lambasting amongst the politicians as yours do. Our Taoiseach recently got ousted from office following a concerted character assassination campaign during an investigation into his finances. The recent emergency budget issued by the ruling coalition here has caused a 10% swing to the opposition and plunged the coalition into meltdown crisis. The Irish gave a big 'fuck you' to the EU federalists with their 'No' vote on the Lisbon Treaty. Just because the US gets attention doesn't mean we don't acknowledge and rue the shortcomings of our own governments. Just look at the UK - every man, woman and child is sick of being the US lapdog and the government ignores monster marches against the Iraq war of Martin Luther King proportions. You should read some of the UK public and press treatment of Gordon Brown also.Kmarion wrote:
Do you know why? Because much of the world publicly scolds and ridicules the US and their economic policies while secretly and willfully tying themselves to the same policies they claim to despise. .. shit, they do it with their foreign policy as well. Maybe they should be paying more attention to what their own public representatives are doing, who they are mingling with, and what they are committing to. Then they won't have to worry about who their next elected puppet is.
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