*sigh* 3 more years

SuperMegatron · Post by **SuperMegatron** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 5:06 pm

Skynet wrote:Those ads actually made me laugh pretty hard. I like the one about howard. It says something along the lines of "Howard not knowing, that's terrible." But then if he actually knew and was coverring it up "That's worse" or something along those lines, the way the guy said it just made me laugh my ass off!

My gf kept asking me (and even as we were walking through Wandana Primary School - my local place of voting ) "who am I voting for again?"

I told her atleast 6 times we want howard out, latham in. And she goes "Who is howard again...?" (meaning what party) so I kept explaining that you vote Labor, and don't vote Liberal She just didn't get it

Whats the difference between liberal and labor? Here what makes you liberal is usually being to prolabor

weeperofsouls · Post by **weeperofsouls** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 5:20 pm

thats just the names of the party. quite often their actual platforms are anything but what the name suggests. for example the liberal party in canada isnt very liberal at all, if you get my meaning.

ian · Post by **ian** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 10:39 pm

SuperMegatron wrote:Whats the difference between liberal and labor? Here what makes you liberal is usually being to prolabor

liberals: are led by an old dude who needs to shave his eyebrows and got my innocent little country invovled in a war

labor: led by a 10 year old who has made nothing but bugger ups since elected mayor of some small town no one cares about

those are pretty much the only differences

BlackAura · Post by **BlackAura** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 12:45 am

The Liberal party is basically the conservatives. There's also a second conservative party, the National party, and the two effectively share the votes that are given to them by a little quirk of the Australian electoral system.

Skynet · Post by **Skynet** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 4:48 am

Prophet][ wrote: I was a bit like that, I was looking at all the posters and trying to work out what party lathem was, all the posters said was ALP, I didn't know if the L was for Labour or Liberal. But I worked it out.

Best part was the BBQ, saved my life. We were so hung over, and they had bacon and egg burgers. ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I was in heaven.

I didn't. The thought of having a BBQ at 9am, just after eating breakfast, brushing my teeth and heading on out to work for 8hrs just didn't appeal to me

Mrfiddlez · Post by **Mrfiddlez** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 11:46 am

I Know This is a Little Late,
But I was out there last Monday,
I Was One of those Annoying Labor
people who flooded the voters
with Labor How to Vote Papers,
I Too was pissed about the liberals
winning, and as you said, many
of our older voters vote liberal,
and theyre soo oneyed about it too,
but in perth i think it its,
our statistics show its 1.5 Kids
to 2 Adults, and thats bad.....
Damn, and they Lied too!
Interest rates are determined by
the reserve bank fools! not the government!!!
LoL, i liked those ads too,
but the L plate, that was Liberals scare tactic,
it was plastered all over the polling booth
i was at....

Skynet · Post by **Skynet** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 11:26 pm

Hey, did you get paid good money to do that? I was told you get like $20/hr to stand around all day handing out fliers.

OneThirty8 · Post by **OneThirty8** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 11:31 pm

Skynet wrote:Hey, did you get paid good money to do that? I was told you get like $20/hr to stand around all day handing out fliers.

Really? I'd hang out and smoke cigarettes for $20/hr.

Prophet][ · Post by **Prophet][** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 11:36 pm

I didn't think you would get paid. If so its a top job.

Skynet · Post by **Skynet** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 12:10 am

I didn't think you would get paid. If so its a top job.

hmm, I was told by someone a while back (I think around the time of the last election) that those tossers that hand crap out get paid a decent amount of money as it's only 1 day every 3yrs.

Could be wrong. I'd have to ask someone who knew I spose.

toastman · Post by **toastman** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 12:26 am

Roofus wrote:
SuperMegatron wrote:what would happen if a president that had served 2 terms decided to run on a ticket as a vice president then the president dies with 3 years left in office?
The only qualification to be Vice President is being elligible to be President, so the person couldn't be VP. I'll look up the exact passage that says that in a minute.

<edit>I can't find it. I know it's in the Constitution though. I found it before. </edit>

I'm not too sure myself about this but I don't think the whole Vice President takes over is in the Constitution either. I think it's just an established precednet. Either that or the VP one is there, but in the unlikely event of both the Pres and VP biting it, then Congress chooses (although there is an established chain of Presidency just in case.)
Actually I think it is the latter. I think the VP becoming Pres in case of forced resignation is Constitutionalized.
It's been a while since I've taken and Political Science class.

Mrfiddlez · Post by **Mrfiddlez** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 5:08 am

NOpe,
I Did it Volunteer,
Didnt know ppl got paid for it....
Mmmm, State Elections coming up soon

Wagh · Post by **Wagh** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 11:46 am

toastman wrote:
Roofus wrote:
SuperMegatron wrote:what would happen if a president that had served 2 terms decided to run on a ticket as a vice president then the president dies with 3 years left in office?
The only qualification to be Vice President is being elligible to be President, so the person couldn't be VP. I'll look up the exact passage that says that in a minute.

<edit>I can't find it. I know it's in the Constitution though. I found it before. </edit>
I'm not too sure myself about this but I don't think the whole Vice President takes over is in the Constitution either. I think it's just an established precednet. Either that or the VP one is there, but in the unlikely event of both the Pres and VP biting it, then Congress chooses (although there is an established chain of Presidency just in case.)
Actually I think it is the latter. I think the VP becoming Pres in case of forced resignation is Constitutionalized.
It's been a while since I've taken and Political Science class.

It was added when one of the presidents.. I can't remember for the life of me was killed. There was no one actually set to take his place so they decided on the VP. The ensuing hissy created the order of sucsession now used in the United States. 22nd amendment maybe?