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Agreed, Dark Spark.

Giving dictatorial powers to a select few to prevent a dictatorship seems to be fairly common in western democracy. Still, guess it's the lesser of two evils.

Every single country in the Commonwealth and the USA. Is 55 countries enough for you?

When you think about it, dictatorship is really the most efficient form of government on paper. The only problem is the people interested in taking over a country by force are not the people you want to take over a country by force.

How exactly are you defining a power? The United Kingdom, India and the USA if you only want massively rich and powerful countries.

Bush's second term.

Facebook winning statements:

Actually Wolf is right. Not all states split electoral votes, so even if a candidate only wins the state's popular vote by one they would get all of the state's electoral college votes.

Funny vid; warning: one or two adult words:

That's a pretty funny vid, but it only underscores how little people know or pay attention to politics today. The race for the President shouldn't be about how "cool" or "boring" a candidate is, but on where they stand as far as their principles.

You may say, "Musicman, that's just a joke video. Nobody takes it seriously." I would respond by saying most people get their political news via satire, especially young people. Look up any political "man on the street" and watch how many of the people interviewed can't tell you who the vice president is, or what social security is, or where the U.S. government gets its money. It's sad how more people care how the President looks than what he actually does.

Please don't misconstrue my statements. I am not speaking out against any President past or present, I'm pointing out that the people of voting age in this country are concerned less and less by the actual politics and more concerned with the image of the candidate.

Politics has always revolved at least partly around personality and it always will. It's not necessarily a bad thing as an leaders can often prove their competence by knowing how to make themselves appealing to the people that they need to support them, something that Romney just does not get.

It's like a broken record.

Repeat what was just said. Agree with what was just said. Repeat what was just said. Agree with what was just said.


vvvv see?

I don't care what Romney does with his personal income (as long as he pays his taxes on it). No one should.