----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: American Experience - PBS
> In a message dated 2/5/2008 10:41:06 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I think this is what has me confused. > When we elect what passes for a government, Parliament is dissolved, the > campaigning runs for about a month, then we pick the least offensive > option. > I don't understand what the primarys are supposed to accomplish. > > William Robb > > =========== > Yes, you do. I don't, really. I find politics to be universally distasteful, and this has kept me ignorant. The Canadian system is relatively easy. We elect people to represent us in Ottawa, they go to Ottawa and toe the party line, which generally is not representative of what their constituents want, and always at the expense of the populace. A few years later, they pretend that we have forgotten that they have been lying like sidewalks to us, we pretend to forget that we think they are a bunch of lying filth, and we start the process all over again. Your system seems incredibly Byzantine by comparison. Let's use the democrats as an example, since I actually know a couple of their names. In the present campaign then, the primaries would be determining if Obama or Clinton would be the candidate in the real election, which isn't really an election since some other electing body (the Electoral College?) actually elects the president based on lord only knows what criteria? I think my eyes are bleeding. Gads, I suppose I should just google this. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
