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Peregrino
11-07-2006, 20:38
We're not the only ones with election day blues.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15585519/
Daniel Ortega appears to have won the Nicaraguan Presidency after 16 years of trying. Can anybody say "thank you Hugo Chavez"? :munchin Peregrino

The Reaper
11-07-2006, 23:34
I think that they will quickly tire of him and not relect him next time, though his arrogance, corruption, and ambition make me wonder how he really differs from Somoza.

TR

NousDefionsDoc
11-08-2006, 19:00
George Bernard Shaw:

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Peregrino
11-08-2006, 20:58
George Bernard Shaw:

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.


Sad but true. Just once I wish we would get better than we deserve. I hate paying the price demanded when the sheeple stampede. I've always fiercely resented mass punishment - especially when I'm not personally guilty. :mad: I think we'll all be paying a long time for the latest idiocy of the "unwashed masses". My .02 - Peregrino