Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.heimat.gr.jp!taurus!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Kevin Gowen Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan,soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.german,soc.culture.china,soc.culture.usa Subject: Re: More proof white-wannabe japs just mimic americans Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2004 17:46:17 -0500 Lines: 48 Message-ID: <2v52hpF2i8ej4U2@uni-berlin.de> References: <70qdo05300oqr2v1qt3nkta96052nvg819@4ax.com> <32hio0l2tr1l7dfd7nqo2q7lbqben8sn6h@4ax.com> <2v4jd6F2h5f68U14@uni-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de pPqTGJUr03OCgrD3sY0YpgUf/ECQ2kcRNbXa8S2zPkO19eM1HF User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:21335 E.F.Schelby wrote: > Vernon North wrote: > > >>In article <2v4jd6F2h5f68U14@uni-berlin.de>, kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com >>says... >> >>>E.F.Schelby wrote: >>> >>>>mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>In fj.life.in-japan E.F.Schelby wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>My daughter just called me from Pennsylvania and a bus full of >>>>>>New York volunteers returning from Ohio where they had helped the >>>>>>Kerry campaign for the last five days. Yesterday she still canvassed >>>>>>for six hours in driving rains. These young people worked very hard, >>>>>>and it was all in vain. >>>>> >>>>>So, if you participate in the democratic process, and don't win, it's >>>>>all in vain? >>>> >>>> >>>>No, of course not. But they felt like it at the moment. The >>>>campaign helpers were tired, and it is understandable that they >>>>were discouraged during the return trip. They had also witnessed >>>>this and that flaw in the democratic process. >>> >>>Maybe she could try moving to Canada. >>> >> >>Good idea. Our Canadian democratic process has neither this nor that >>flaw. ;-) > > > I was not in the mood for arguments, so I left it at "this or that." > Some of the details she told me were not pretty. Indeed. Check it out. http://tinyurl.com/6hupc -- Kevin "This is the best election night in history."--Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe, Nov. 2, 2004, just before 8 p.m. EST