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To: michael97123 who wrote (432680)	11/4/2008 1:26:23 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1571541

>> For sure there will be an election in 2012. Yeah, Saddam used to hold elections, too.

To: michael97123 who wrote (432680)	11/4/2008 1:55:49 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571541

Michael, I live in California, so by default my vote is already for Obama ... Tenchusatsu

To: michael97123 who wrote (432680)	11/4/2008 1:59:27 PM
From: Joe NYC	4 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1571541

michael, This is america. For sure there will be an election in 2012. Surely we had "elections" in communist Czechoslovakia. With one candidate, public ballot - subject to intimidation - just like what Dems want the unions to vote. FYI, the elections were held in a room where you cast your ballot in public, in view of the poll watchers, or behind a curtain. The poll watchers wrote down the names of people who went to vote privately, and and marked it in their files, maintained by the state police. Of course the list of people who "dared" to do this was small. Apparently only one guy in our entire district. You had only one list of party approved candidates - no alternatives. You could either vote for the entire list or cross it out. BTW, they took attendance. Whoever did not show up was as much an enemy of the states as the guy who went behind the curtain. Anytime you give power to a leftists who preach "change" or even "changing the world", you risk bringing to power the next Lenin, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot - or wanna bes like Hugo Chaves. In Czechoslovakia, even though it was still occuppied by the Russians, the Russians did not install the communist government there. People did it to themselves. They gave enough votes to the Communists in the free elections, that the president ended up with no choice than to ask Communist party leader to form the next government, and that was the end. Communists seized all power, suppressed all dissent, and within next few years, Czechoslovakia became a totalitarian communist country. 1948 was the last free election. Will USA after 2008 elections be the same as Czechoslovakia after 1948 elections? I don't know. I don't know enough about Obama (after 2 years of non-stop "coverage") to be reasonably certain one way or another. I know there are legions of brown shirts in his party who would not hesitate for a second to make it so. Joe