Cheney and Bush Declare Autonomous Dictatorial Powers

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so i come on here with a buzz and a giant diet coke as i usually do every so often, and the first thing i see is that there are 4 pages on this topic already, and i swear to god i was almost a little choked up with happiness (remember i'm high) to know that residents of the city would flock to give a fuck about the insanity of our social situation right now, and what can i say? it makes me unexplainably happy... i'm quite the political media junkie dweeb so it seems cool that there is passion for these stories here

so now i have to go back and read all this but maybe won't respond because already i can tell that the atroc-o-meter is way up on this one and sometimes i just can't take it, this thing comes over me, i think the polite word is hate, and then i get almost physically ill. i am not lying! in fact i know other people whom bush- and i think you know by bush i mean bush-"iness" in all its forms- makes "sick" in a physical way! is that kind of crazy lol?!

later

i appreciate this place

[Alphå]

Originally Posted by Retroshark

eaxctly. this may be a foolisht statement, but if somebody can answer this for me, i will retract it... why is there not a better voting system in place. the system we have now ensures that only two people can ever become president. a republican or democrat.

we need a country wide ballot where everyone is on the ballot, not just the people that are most likely going to get voted for in that state.

this really kept me awake last night... where is our country going? it seems like we are quickly moving in a direction that is only going to help to weaken relationships with other countries and gain us more enemies than we already have.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washing...rewell_Address

Political factionalism

There were three notable themes from the speech. The first described what Washington saw as a potentially harmful political factionalism throughout the country. He urged Americans to unite for the good of the whole country. Two political factions had developed into political parties in the early 1790s: the Federalists and the Democratic Republicans. The Federalists, and Washington himself, backed Hamilton's plan for a central bank and other strong central economic plans based on manufacturing, while the Jeffersonian Republicans opposed the strong government inherent in the Hamiltonian plan and favored farmers as opposed to city people. Washington foresaw that this intense political polarization would play significantly in the new government as these two sides attempted to further craft and guide the nation.

Foreign alliances

The second theme was a warning to the nation to avoid foreign alliances, particularly in Europe. Both parties wanted to stay out of the wars between France and Britain. The Federalists favored stronger ties with the British, while the Republicans insisted on adhering to the Treaty of Alliance the U.S. had already signed with France in 1778.

Political prosperity

Tranquility abroad and neutrality at home. The third theme considered Washington's view of preserving "political prosperity" through morality and religion. He called morality "a necessary spring of popular government," and stated:

Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in Courts of Justice? And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect, that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

Something I thought was relevent. George Washington, our first president, warned of the incoming WW1, and the division of the country into political parties.