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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry
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To: lorne who wrote (22812)5/15/2004 5:36:03 PM
From: ChinuSFORead Replies (2) of 81568
 
lorne, I think some of the folks in the US especially the conservative right should take a cue from the recently concluded elections in India. The Indian President is a Muslim. He is also the father of the Indian nuclear bomb. The Prime Minister elect is born of Italian parentage and is a woman. India is predominantly Hindu and it is the second largest Muslim country in the world. It also consists of 10% Christians. So far you must be wondering what is my point. Well here is my point.

With all this diversity, democracy not only works but thrives in India. The Indians recently voted out their Govt. not based on religion/communion, not based on abortion supporters and opposers etc., not based on terrorists attacks as in Spain. But the common Indian voter considered on a very fundamental issue at the polls. And that issue is the economic upliftment of the general masses. It is very astonishing that in a democracy like the US, the right wing extremists are exhorting the general public to consider issues such as whether one gets communion or not, or whether one marries into money or not. We have become a laughing stock of the world in the past 3 years for such advocacies.

I hope we will get back to the issues of human rights, economic opportunities, international trade and those issues which brought the US fame and glory in the eyes of the international community. Who cares what one goddamn priest holed up somewhere (probably sodomizing some altar boy) says about how we should vote? We all know that the US priesthood as well as the TV evangelists are corrupt and have fathered some bastards also. So why bother with them. Instead let us turn towards those priests in countries where they are really sacrificing such as Mother Teresa mission for aids etc. etc.
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