Should U.N. observers be sendt to monitor the 2004 presidential election?

[fudd 0]

Should U.N. observers be sendt to monitor the 2004 presidential election?

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[AggieDave 6]

Short answer: No.

Long answer: Later, I'm headed off to work.

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[Nightingale 0]

I don't care either way. I think the election will be run just fine, so whether the UN is watching or not would be irrelevant.

[Tonto 1]

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I don't care either way. I think the election will be run just fine, so whether the UN is watching or not would be irrelevant.

Right Answer.

AggieDave's sounded like something Robert Mugabe would say...

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[Hummusx 0]

Absolutely not. I am flabbergasted that the vote is nearly even.

"Your appeal to the secretary general is alarming and embarrassing," he said. "As a Member of Congress sworn to uphold the Constitution and represent the people of the United States, it is disturbing, to say the least, that you would entrust the most sacred act of American democracy - our presidential election - to an international institution, which is unaccountable to the American people and mired by scandal and corruption."

Kilgannon said the request "undermines U.S. sovereignty, demoralizes American servicemen who are fighting to build democratic governments abroad and sends the message worldwide that the United States is nothing more than a Third World nation unable to police itself."

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[markd_nscr986 0]

Whuffo ?????

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[storm1977 0]

I think we as citizens of our own country have been doing a pretty good job at policing ourselves for the past 200+ years. We don't need a group of internationals coming here to make sure we know how to run an election.

Whose Idea is this anyway?

In Iraq's last presidential election the UN didn't sit in on that.... But they want to sit in on ours??? Are you fucking kidding me?

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[EricTheRed 0]

I voted yes. I think we should show them how it should be done.

Let 'em watch. (It's not like they ever actually DO anything)

illegible usually

[PhillyKev 0]

No. We can monitor ourselves on this. Supposing they were here to monitor the election and there were shenanigans going on, what could they do about it? Expose it to the public? There were shenanigans from both sides last time and we resolved it in the most equitable and fair manner I think possible. Hopefully we don't have to go through that shit storm again, but having the UN monitor our elections wouldn't make a difference one way or the other.

[rehmwa 2]

I don't think the UN leadership has our best interests at heart, just the opposite. I have little trust in the UN leadership.

So I think they could only have a negative impact and would likely try to manipulate the election if they could.

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[PhillyKev 0]

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So I think they could only have a negative impact and would likely try to manipulate the election if they could.

I don't think that would be an issue. There are partisan observers at every poll now.

[freeflying 0]

absolutely not. Like others have said, we have done a pretty good job over the past 200 years. Plus if we do need someone to monitor the elections, the last organization we should have is the U.N. They hardly have the U.S.'s best interests at heart.

Moreover, the Members of Congress who wrote the letter and made a big stink of it on the House floor did it simply for political reasons -- now if the election goes to Bush they will scream that the election was unfair. I mean Corrine Brown and Eddie Bernice Johnson? Please-- they are off the wall

[Zennie 0]

Sure, why not?

We advocate sending monitors to other countries. Why should we be exempt?

Typical Washington mindset of imposing their will on others but exempting themselves.

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[rjoseph14k 0]

Screw the UN. They couldn't pour piss out of boot if the directions were writen on the heel. Thats only if they could pass the resolution to try it.

[SkyDekker 1,145]

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most sacred act of American democracy

There is no such thing.

Democracy runs on the concept of a majority rule. When the majority of the people can vote for one candidate, yet another candidate wins the election, with less votes......it is impossible to call that a democracy.

[storm1977 0]

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most sacred act of American democracy

There is no such thing.

Democracy runs on the concept of a majority rule. When the majority of the people can vote for one candidate, yet another candidate wins the election, with less votes......it is impossible to call that a democracy.

It is getting old!!!! Go see a shrink if you can't deal with the difficulty you are having with this!!!!

MAJORITY DOESN"T RULE!!!!!

MOST AMERICANS DIDN"T WANT BLACKS TO HAVE EQUAL RIGHTS...... Is that a democracy????
MOST OF THE PEOPLE OF MA DON"T WANT GAYS TO MARRY. IS THAT FAIR.

OK MAJORITY RULES FROM NOW ON!!!!!!



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[SkyDekker 1,145]

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It is getting old!!!! Go see a shrink if you can't deal with the difficulty you are having with this!!!!

MAJORITY DOESN"T RULE!!!!!

MOST AMERICANS DIDN"T WANT BLACKS TO HAVE EQUAL RIGHTS...... Is that a democracy????
MOST OF THE PEOPLE OF MA DON"T WANT GAYS TO MARRY. IS THAT FAIR.

OK MAJORITY RULES FROM NOW ON!!!!!!

I am not quite sure why you are yelling at me....but you are pretty much proving my point. I am not saying the system is wrong, just that you can't really call it a democracy.

If you are having difficulty with that, I suggest going back to JK.

[tunaplanet 0]

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Should U.N. observers be sendt to monitor the 2004 presidential election?

Absolutely, positively, 100% NO!!!!!

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[kelpdiver 2]

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Democracy runs on the concept of a majority rule. When the majority of the people can vote for one candidate, yet another candidate wins the election, with less votes......it is impossible to call that a democracy.

1. The US is not a democracy in that classic definition.
2. And Gore did not receive a majority.

As for the upcoming election, I wouldn't mind an evaluation done of Florida, along with people being told how to verify they're on the voter rolls.

[billvon 2,434]

>2. And Gore did not receive a majority.

The only thing more tiring than listening to democrats go on and on about how Bush really didn't win is listening to republicans who can't acknowledge that Gore won the popular vote. Gore won the popular vote by half a million votes. Bush won the electoral vote and hence became president under our current laws.

[Balls 0]

The UN can go and FUCK themselves. Down with the UN.

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[tunaplanet 0]

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republicans who can't acknowledge that Gore won the popular vote. Gore won the popular vote by half a million votes.

And Gore would be president if it wasn't for that pesky constitution thing

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[billvon 2,434]

> The UN can go and FUCK themselves. Down with the UN.

Unless they say something we agree with, then we are so pro-UN that we invade countries that defy them. Almost seems like a hypocritical position. Almost.

[kallend 1,648]

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The UN can go and FUCK themselves. Down with the UN.

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[wmw999 2,148]

Interesting -- why did you pick on part of billvon's post to put a on, without taking the part before and after it that make it clear that he, too, disagrees with that part of it?

Are you quoting out of context? Spinning?

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