TomB, I agree with your observations, I'm out of touch when it comes to the political processes of your country, but I would go so far as to say that a person is considered dumb when they have to rely on someone else's point of view or interpretation of the parties vying for their "admiration".
You might just as well take a few dollars more to vote for the guy that has the dough and is prepared to buy his/her way to the top, just like that rat bag JFK, whose father invoked his mob connections via Franko Sinatra to ensure his son took the top prize, and they don't come more rotten than that.
So if'n the man at the top goes awol big time, the country gets second best automatically, like the Truman/Roosevelt thing back in '45.
It is well documented that Roosevelt kept Truman in the dark on all major issues, yet Truman was the man who's decision was to drop the A bomb.
Lucky or unlucky for the world if'n Roosevelt had lived longer and decided against it......we would never know what it looks like to blast someone to bits at the press of a button, and maybe the Ruskis would have had time to get in on the act and carved a bit of that Japanese pie for themselve.
Should be a very good reason to call another general election with the vice pres only having minor exec powers as a caretaker government in the interim.
Can yo'all imagine Gore being the top man with Palin as his side kick, and Gore going awol by default, yo'all would have had the first Female President of the US of A, whether you liked it or not......eat yo' heart out George Washington, the constitution don't cater for female needs.
I suppose in the true heart of Democracy, it doesn't matter who sits in the oval office, as long as the party line is observed, but when JFK was put down, who stepped into his shoes?..... I don't know, I wasn't there, but I think it was that "all the way with that LBJ" fella', correct me if'n I'm wrong, but that guy didn't sh!t any miracles either.
I sometimes wonder if the big corporations would do a better job of running the country, a main event not a side show, at least they have the expertise to make it pay and foreign policy would be dictated by market power not wars, it's very inconsiderate to make war on a trading partner and not very profitable.
Ian.  |