Really? How odd. Why is that?
I bet it came about cuz of his father also being a "George Bush".
The difference was the "W" in the middle. Hence, "Dubya".
It's short, clear & rather clownish....how could we not call him that?
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Really? How odd. Why is that?
George W. Bush = George Dubya Bush.
Now thank your parents for your Scottish accent.
When I was a kid we had a neighbor named Dub. His name was William; Dub was short for Double-U, which was short for William.
Ahh I see. I say it as "Double you." Dubya never even occured to me as how some might say it lol.
Come on people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
And vote Democrat
Right now
Why not Green? Or Socialist, if they're running in your area?
Me, too.Because I want my candidate to win.
Me, too.
But then, I also want to vote for somebody who's not a scumbag.
If only I could have both.
Don't hate the playa, hate the game.
But what can we do about the game if we keep electing people who want to keep the game?
Stop electing people who want to keep the game.
mball sez, "Stop electing people who want to keep the game"
I'm a total dummy, show me someone trying to get elected in "Politics" not playing "The Game".
As Angellous pointed out, those people never win.
mball sez, "Stop electing people who want to keep the game"
I'm a total dummy, show me someone trying to get elected in "Politics" not playing "The Game".
Then we need to start making them win.
It's too big of a risk right now. If the Republican party continues to fracture, then we can divide up the Democratic party and have a full reform. There's simply too much at stake to allow Republicans to have anything to do with running the government.
I don't want my friends to die for nothing in Iran and/or North Korea because I voted Libertarian or Green on a piddly issue that can be taken care of by a movement within the party.
You mean it's too big a risk to vote for the third party because it'll just put a Republican in office?
If so, that's why I advocate alternative voting systems, where you can vote for your first choice, but also vote for the democrat in case your first choice doesn't win, so that you don't throw away your vote. Emboldened with that knowledge, I think we'd see a huge upswing in third-party votes.
I don't see how your voting system would be fair - it's attractive and I'd be delighted by it, but allowing for two votes for one office for people who vote third party gives those who want to vote just for their party gives too much advantage to the third party voters.
Out of McCain, Obama and Nader, 40 people vote for McCain, 40 people vote for Obama and 20 for Nader. Nader drops off, and the ballots who voted for him are counted for their second votes. Out of those 20, 15 had Obama as their second choice, and only 5 had McCain, which means Obama wins.
That way, everyone can vote for their first choice, and also be assured that they aren't throwing away their vote.