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Skriven 2005-01-13 16:10:18 av Howie Coombe
     Kommentar till en text av Thurston Ackerman
Ärende: ELECTIONS
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Dear Thurston, in regards to this message to me.

 >  G'day Howie,


G'day Thurston.

 > If my memory isn't defragged more than usual I seem to recall you all lost  
> an earlier national election do to opposition by religiuos right groups.


Actually if Members and Supporters of The Liberal and National Party's, Members
and supporters of your Republican Party who know anything about it, and Members
and supporters of any of your or our Christian Right Wing Groups, in your Case
The Christian Coalition, and in our case The Festival of Light, The Christian
Democrats and the newly created newly elected, at both Federal and State Level,
Family First, are to be believed, John W Howard and his oxymoronically titled
Liberal Party won because he had the better policys, because The Labor Party
did not have an experienced leader in Mark Latham and Because The Labor Party
was still paying for drifting to the right under Paul Keating, personally i
think it was a combination of All The Above+ both sides scared the people about
each other and Labor on too many occasions played "Mirror Games" on important
sociopolitical issues like Gay Rights, in the end the people figured "Better
The Devil You Know".

 > You are probably aware we also lost here in the USA and many tend to blame  
> the religious right groups here.


Indeed, although i would be more inclined to believe it of your country then
mine, in your case your countrys religious right leaders, and particularly your
Christian Right Leaders, are as famous as your political leaders, while
coincidently your religious left leaders are unknown, where as here all that is
known about the identitys on either side is that the ones on the Right, and
particularly the Christian ones on The Right, Are Noisy, and in being so Give
Christianity A Bad Name, while the Non Christian Ones and the Christian Left
are Silent, which i think gives there side of there teams an Equally Bad Name.
and nobody here can name any names from either side with the possible exception
of Reverend Tim Costello, who is a representative of the centre, and The Deputy
Leader of The Liberal Party's Brother, although i think and hope that will now
change, i think in our case it was i think, i hope, it was a blip.

 > I think such apologists are as wrong as they were trying to win with a      
> largely negative focused campaign against Bush rather than provideing a     
> positive campaign with plans to accomplish something positive,


Same here sadly, perticularly if members of the above mentioned coaltion are to
be belived, not that they did not have enough negative things to throw.....

 > rather then simply mearly "get rid of Bush".


....Although maybe not wrong so much as oversimplifying the situation.

 > What does your tea leaves tell you all there ?


Other then the Australian and American people are both Stupid and Gutless?, see
above.

 > Ciao, Ack. --- þ SLMR 2.1a þ Experience best teacher when fools won't learn 
> otherwise


Although sometimes there is a mismatch between pupil and teacher, particularly
when there is a shortage of teachers.

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