You know better then anyone on this forum that there are strict legislations regarding marketing of presidential campaign in Europe.. In France at least.

You have, unlike the U.S a limited amount of money each candidate is entitled to spend.
Don't remember the exact numbers, it's been years since my course of Constitutional Law.. but it was far more reasonable then the amounts being dropped in the US.

I agree, I'm not necessarily extolling the virtues of 100% democracy, which I believe to be massively overrated anyway, but the extent to which money influences representatives in America is massively disturbing. It's this that makes it a plutocracy. A plutocracy in its own right would not be a bad thing, if it could be established that everyone has the same opportunities to make money and if wealth were only earned by fair and honest work, being proportional to integrity and honesty. Sadly, they're not.

Civil rights have always come about by way of prominent civil disobedience (Rosa Parks anyone?), but such civil disobedience brings with it the risk of civil war, and America is probably the one western country teetering closest on the edge of civil war with its profound ideological divisions in society. In America, civil rights have only ever won out against religious and traditional interests, never against financial interests.
I never claimed that Europe was any better.

I'm listening to Glenn Beck right now, to hear him cry, and he almost seems to be building toward advocating for civil war. He also told people last night to buy guns and pull out their investments.

That's really fringe though. Americans are way too comfy for revolution.

Every American who voted for Obama is either a complete moron or an inconsiderate asshole who does not give a shit about real issues like the national debt, inflation, underemployment, unemployment, or that coverup of the Benghazi incident. I am one of the real Americans who voted for political improvement by voting for Romney instead of the ones who fell for the red herrings like contraceptives or "women's rights."

Every American who voted for Obama should have gotten miscarried. This country needs a military coup to save it kind of like what happened in Chile in 1973.

May an assassin's bullet find its way through both Obama and Biden. Death to the Democratic Party AKA the Demographic Party AKA the National Socialist American Freeloaders' Party.

LOL

Indeed.

I'm trying to figure out whether you're trolling, parodying or are just a moron.

This is precisely what I was talking about above.

so...
you want an army to take over. to abolish constitution, remove any rights one has.

You want guys who spend 600 billion dollars a year on trying to figure out how to kill people better and more efficiently to actually run a country?

I am giving my honest thoughts just as the Obamabot who started this post gave his.

The only morons are the ones who re-elected the piece of shit and I hope much of them get stage 4 cancer.

I demand the reduction of bureaucratic costs in the government, a balanced budget, the reigning in of inflation, reduction of federal bureaucracies, the repeal of an overly flawed "health" bill, the reigning in of over-regulation, and a transfer of funds from government desk workers to actual servicemen.

That is what I demand. It would also fulfill my demand for justice for the Benghazi and Operation Fast and Furious coverups.

The coup in Chile was probably one of the only military coups of the past century that actually did good by saving the Chilean economy.

wishing a death upon people with whom you disagree. Hardly a civilized opinion. As citizens of the world I think it is good that you and your people are not in charge of the most powerful nation.

Sure, although it does sound like an idea The Onion would think up.

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-2012-campaign-costs-6-billion-20121031,0,7880273.story

Oh hey, a felony! Radiculs.

Agreed.

Your voice of reason has swayed me with its wisdom. I am a born-again conservative.

Where is JCD Bionicman he would love to see this :)

The last I saw of him, EnigmaticT said that JCD was likely a troll and JCD got really pissy about that. Don't know if that means he finally got incensed enough to leave, or if he was banned.