Request to the American Polies...

[Theben]

Originally posted by Hueij
You guys really don't follow Dutch politics, don't you. The man died years ago

Don't tell me dead people aren't an active political force over there...

[Aeson]

I was going to post a diatribe about the candidates' hair styles, but I guess I will restrain myself for now from addressing this critical issue.

[DinoDoc]

Re: Request to the American Polies...

Originally posted by Hueij
So please, if you want our love again after the eight disastrous Bush years, please...?

No. Not all of us are neurotic and needy.

[SlowwHand]

If dead people can vote, why can't they run for office?

[snoopy369]

Psst to Slowwy: The Netherlands is not Chicago. They don't know how we do things around here.

[SlowwHand]

Sounds like there aren't enough USA political threads. snoopy...?

[snoopy369]

I'll get right on that.

[Theben]

Re: Re: Request to the American Polies...

Originally posted by DinoDoc
No. Not all of us are neurotic and needy.

Yes, some are completely clueless.

[Theben]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
If dead people can vote, why can't they run for office?

That dead guy from Missouri won a couple years ago, right?

[SlowwHand]

Republican senator loses to dead rival in Missouri
Jean Carnahan



November 8, 2000
Web posted at: 2:49 a.m. EST (0749 GMT)

(CNN) -- The late Gov. Mel Carnahan collected enough votes to beat out incumbent Republican Sen. John Ashcroft for the U.S. Senate seat from Missouri.

[Theben]

I forgot he beat Ashcroft.

[Hauptman]

The correct spelling was taken the first time I used this handle... So I kept misspelling it...

[-Jrabbit]

Hueij, you're a 1999er. Surely you remember the days when the OT active threads came fast and furious, with legitimate active threads running multiple pages.

We've already eliminated history, sports, and technology threads. Surely you can sort through the relative dribble of our current level of OT thread production. Or -- here's a thought -- don't open threads about American politics.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Riesstiu IV
80% of those threads are started by Oerdin.

Not even close. I've cut way back on political threads in the last two years.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui

Let's see all the threads I have on the first five pages, shall we?
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1. We have a television star in our midsts - About Mobius's tv appearance.

2. How walkable is your neighborhood? - About neighborhoods.

3. McCain is considered 100% disabled by the VA - 1st political thread.

4. Interpol: FARC files real - About South America

5. Intact British ship from American Revolution found. - Story about a historical ship wreck.

6. Ron Paul to make major announcement tonight - Story about Ron Paul.

7. Run and hide, mothers! - thread about my trip to NYC

8. Please buy our dirty oil - Discussion about a Congressional mandate about synthetic oil

9. Toxic Gulf "dead zone" largest ever recorded. - environmental thread.

10. Aide to Petreaus Guilty of Corruption with Defense Contractors - Story about a high ranking military official arrested for bribery.

11. This has super villian written all over it! - Story about billioaire with a secret sex cave under his house.

12. Cellphones and popcorn. - thread about an internet hoax.

13. Best US Senator. - Nonelection related thread asking people who they think the best Senator is and why.

14. Desertification Of Southeast Spain Proceeding Rapidly - Another environmental thread.





That gives us 1 thread out of 14 threads having anything to do with US Presidential elections. 2 out of 14 if you want to take my thread about Ron Paul seriously. Hardly the massive number of election threads you're claiming, now is it?