Europe is paying a surprising amount of attention to the US elections.

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis106.html

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Here's what I got about how the Europeans are looking at the election from Bonfire:

A European view of the US election -

"We in Denmark cannot figure out why you are even bothering to hold an election.

On one side, you have a bitch who is a lawyer, married to a lawyer, and a lawyer who is married to a bitch who is a lawyer.

On the other side, you have a true war hero married to a woman with a huge chest who owns a beer distributorship.

Is there a contest here?"

Wendy W.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

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Mostly, were only interested to see how you get your selves out of the shite

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

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Nah, we don't give a shit. Must be a slow news day

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"...an earnest hope that America may soon return to being its old, pre-Bush, pre-9/11 self."

There's the reason for the attention.

'for it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "chuck 'im out, the brute!" But it's "saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot.'

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"...an earnest hope that America may soon return to being its old, pre-Bush, pre-11/9 self."

Fixed it

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

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Jay Leno, via U.S. News: "Actually, one really embarrassing moment -- you see this on the news? When the Pope blessed the crowd with holy water, well, some of it splashed on Dick Cheney & burned his skin."

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Eh!? Post a link!

'for it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "chuck 'im out, the brute!" But it's "saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot.'

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis106.html

This guy obviously never met any French taxi driver

OK, that's what he believes the French think. France alone is not Europe.

What do the remaining 26 states of the EU think about the US elections?

Thread title is absolutely misleading and wrong.

dudeist skydiver # 3105

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"It's very close, I guess, between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Both candidates are trying whatever they can. This is the latest. This weekend, Chelsea Clinton tried to help her mother attract the gay vote in Pennsylvania by visiting several lesbian bars. That's true, yeah. Yeah, when asked to comment afterwards, Chelsea said, 'I've never seen so many women with my mom's haircut.'" --Conan O'Brien

"And earlier this evening, President Bush made an appearance on the TV show 'Deal or No Deal.' I guess he got turned down for 'Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader?'" --Jay Leno

"Speaking of reading, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is now working on a book about his strategy for the war in Iraq. It will be a while before it goes to the publisher because cause he just doesn't know how to end it." --Jay Leno


"As you would expect, Hillary was completely fake-outraged by this. Every day she has called for him to retract these comments, because they're elitist and offensive. They're offensive to poor, rural Americans that she relates to. And she is pulling out all the stops to let these people know that she is one of them. Today, she came out strongly against teeth." --Bill Maher

"You know that since George Bush has become president, gas has basically tripled in price. Now, Bush is an oil man. I'm not a conspiracy theorist, I'm just saying that if we had elected Colonel Sanders president, and the price of chicken had tripled, I'd be a little suspicious." --Bill Maher

"And not to be outdone on this subject, George Bush made a speech this week on global warming. The good news? He finally admits it's real. The bad news? He wants to invade the sun." --Bill Maher

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Back in London, I was having dinner in the Groucho Club - this week’s in-spot for what’s left of Britain’s lit glitz and nouveau rock riche - when one more person started in on the Stars and Stripes. Eventually he got, as the Europeans always do, to the part about “Your country’s never been invaded.” (This fellow had been two during the Blitz, you see.) “You don’t know the horror, the suffering. You think war is…”

I snapped.

“A John Wayne movie,” I said. “That’s what you were going to say, wasn’t it? We think war is a John Wayne movie. We think life is a John Wayne movie - with good guys and bad guys, as simple as that. Well, you know something, Mister Limey Poofter? You’re right. And let me tell you who those bad guys are. They’re us . WE BE BAD.

“We’re the baddest-assed sons of bitches that ever jogged in Reeboks. We’re three-quarters grizzly bear and two-thirds car wreck and descended from a stock market crash on our mother’s side. You take your Germany, France and Spain, roll them all together and it won’t give us room to park our cars. We’re the big boys, Jack, the original, giant, economy-sized, new and improved butt kickers of all time. When we snort coke in Houston, people lose their hats in Cap d’Antibes. And we’ve got an American Express card credit limit higher than your piss-ant metric numbers go.”

“You say our country’s never been invaded? You’re right, little buddy. Because I’d like to see the needle-dicked foreigners who’d have the guts to try. We drink napalm to get our hearts started in the morning. A rape and a mugging is our way of saying ‘Cheerio.’ Hell can’t hold our sock-hops. We walk taller, talk louder, spit further, f*ck longer and buy more things than you know the names of. I’d rather be a junkie in a New York City jail than king, queen and jack of all you Europeans. We eat little countries like this for breakfast and sh!t them out before lunch.”

PJ O'Rourke - Holidays in Hell - "Among the Euroweenies"

My wife is hotter than your wife.

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Jay Leno, via U.S. News: "Actually, one really embarrassing moment -- you see this on the news? When the Pope blessed the crowd with holy water, well, some of it splashed on Dick Cheney & burned his skin."

Did Hillary dissolve?

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Eventually he got, as the Europeans always do, to the part about “Your country’s never been invaded.”

1814?

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

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Only goes to proove what us jolly nice chaps over here have come to expect from some of you chaps over there

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

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Only goes to proove what us jolly nice chaps over here have come to expect from some of you chaps over there

Over here, it seems, people would prefer that basketball players travel the country by jetliner, but that the candidates for president and their covering media shouldn't because it wastes energy. Go figure.

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Only goes to proove what us jolly nice chaps over here have come to expect from some of you chaps over there

What have you come to expect? Handouts and occasional slaps on the wrists ...

"That looks dangerous." Leopold Stotch

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Never had a handout in my life and I prefer my slaps a little lower down.

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

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They were pretty good! The price of chicken!!!

'for it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "chuck 'im out, the brute!" But it's "saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot.'

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That story would be even funnier had he said it inside my local back home instead of the Groucho....

'for it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "chuck 'im out, the brute!" But it's "saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot.'

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I reckon he'd get to about:

"Well, you know something, Mister Limey Poofter?"

Glaswegian Ned, "Aye, a fuckin' well dae ya cunt."

"Wha...sarry son, wha-at was thet? What isit thet you know?"

"That you're gettin' yer fuckin' cunt kicked in.."

Then it'd probably be a pint glass in the face or something.

'for it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "chuck 'im out, the brute!" But it's "saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot.'

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Over here, it seems, people would prefer that basketball players travel the country by jetliner, but that the candidates for president and their covering media shouldn't because it wastes energy. Go figure.

That's your interpretation.
Of course, that's not what we are saying.

p.s. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080423/pl_nm/usa_politics_mccain_ad_dc_1

From the article:
""We asked them not to run it," McCain told reporters on his campaign bus as he rode to an anti-poverty event in the coalfields of eastern Kentucky."

My wife is hotter than your wife.

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CU jimmy an' tha.... pick y'windy, y'leavin'

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

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You were saying?

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Eventually he got, as the Europeans always do, to the part about “Your country’s never been invaded.”

1814?

Didn't think you were around for that.

Sorry about burning down Washington. Seemed like a good idea at the time.

Plus it was payback for the burning down of Toronto (York then) the year before.

Major Dad
CSPA D-579

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This should make you laugh:

Click on the link http://www.glasgowsurvival.co.uk/

Below the title click on 'toys'

Scroll down and click on the ned in the blue box ("A little adventure game designed to allow any unsuspecting visitors to avoid being chibbed by a burbonic moron.")

And then answer away! Some of the responses had me in stitches. Try just clicking the choices on the right for a good response.

Then scroll down to the bottom and watch the cartoon about the Goth. Hilarious.

'for it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "chuck 'im out, the brute!" But it's "saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot.'