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Post by dgriffin on Feb 3, 2008 17:35:30 GMT -5
Smooth dude.
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Post by Swimmy on Feb 3, 2008 17:39:00 GMT -5
??
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Post by dgriffin on Feb 3, 2008 17:39:43 GMT -5
OK, frankcor, I'll give Elizabeth 95, but not more.
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Post by Swimmy on Feb 3, 2008 17:48:50 GMT -5
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Post by dgriffin on Feb 3, 2008 17:55:39 GMT -5
Swimmy, you may be taking this "electing of a president" too seriously. Move to France? Come, come. You wouldn't be happy there. Canada, maybe.
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Post by Swimmy on Feb 3, 2008 17:57:27 GMT -5
It was a poor attempt at sarcastic irony. But then I realized that France would probably welcome hrd with open arms. Canadia would have been the better choice.
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Post by Swimmy on Feb 3, 2008 17:58:07 GMT -5
You going to explain how Obama reminds you of billy, but not in a good way?
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Post by dgriffin on Feb 3, 2008 18:01:28 GMT -5
Sorry, yes. The two are very good speakers with visions honed to be popular. They each have a likable and polished presence.
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Post by dgriffin on Feb 3, 2008 18:02:39 GMT -5
The not in a good way.....Bill was a pretty smart character.
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Post by dgriffin on Feb 3, 2008 18:07:49 GMT -5
I just thought ... I haven't seen an economic outlook in a while for major corporations, but most I read in the past couldn't in their prognostications have cared less who would be elected president. That told me something.
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Post by Swimmy on Feb 3, 2008 18:08:18 GMT -5
Ah. Thank you for clarifying what you meant. :-)
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Post by frankcor on Feb 3, 2008 19:17:03 GMT -5
And to extend your notion, dgriffin, Nixon proved that we can even survive a complete term without a President.
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Post by Swimmy on Feb 3, 2008 19:53:34 GMT -5
He did? When did we not have a President?
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Post by dgriffin on Feb 3, 2008 20:12:51 GMT -5
I'm still trying to find on the Internet something about a British political scientist I read of a few years ago who had quite convincing arguments that NO politicians ever accomplish anything. That if you carefully analyze each big problem any society has ever tackled (probably, but not necessarily, excepting war) you would find that other institutions solved the problems first and the politicians arrived later to pass laws and make it look like their solutions. Health care comes to mind, even you don't like the solutions.
Another intriguing theory is that society runs itself, the proof being that it is so complicated, no one could run it, so there must be some odd "chaos" algorithm operating that we don't understand. Food for thought. Dave
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Post by Swimmy on Feb 3, 2008 20:22:34 GMT -5
No, no, no. Society is run by the Illuminati and the Masons. The lesser secret societies control the individual countries, e.g. the Skull and Bones have the U.S. all shored up.
If you find the link, be sure to post it. You've piqued my curiosity.
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