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La Lioness Priyanka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-04 09:44 AM
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Poll question: Would You Be Ok with A English Woman As Your President?
Edited on Tue May-18-04 09:48 AM by lionesspriyanka
Assuming you are American and George w. Bush was the alternative and it wasnt Unconstitutional. The English Woman would be JUST as corrupt as Dubya but not pandering to the Religious Right.
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elperromagico Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-04 09:46 AM
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1. Once I got over the Constitutional impossibility of it, yes.
;)
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La Lioness Priyanka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-04 09:50 AM
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7. fixed
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sophie996 Donating Member (224 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-04 09:47 AM
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2. which english woman?
the margaret thatcher model wouldn't thrill me.
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-04 09:49 AM
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5. Margaret Thatcher is just as bad as *. No way would I want that.
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La Lioness Priyanka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-04 09:51 AM
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9. i wrote more parameters into poll
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Zero Gravitas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-04 01:08 PM
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28. Thatcher
as bad as Thatcher was she'd still be preferable to Dumbass Dubya. She at least has a brain and wouldn't be deluded by the PNAC loonies and she is not a religious fanatic and wouldn't pander to them. So as terrible as she would be as a President I would even pick Maggie over Emperor Sock Puppet in a heartbeat.
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La Lioness Priyanka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-04 09:52 AM
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12. fixed
sort of
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Lasira Donating Member (72 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-04 09:48 AM
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3. If it was constitutionally possible, sure, but
I'm just wondering what the reasoning behind this question is. ??
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LDS Jock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-04 09:51 AM
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10. I think
it has to do with this.

Sonia Gandhi, who led her Congress party to a surprise victory in India's elections, said she won't take the post of prime minister. That may assuage anger that a foreign-born person would lead the world's second-most populous nation.

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000080&sid=atbuzNoDaXqw&refer=asia
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La Lioness Priyanka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-04 09:53 AM
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13. it does
i was gaging attitudes about it.
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amazona Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-04 09:51 AM
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11. it's the india thing
Gandhi was born in Italy or something, not India. I'm not too up to date on it but the alternative was to have the entire country privatized from the sound of it.
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La Lioness Priyanka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-04 09:56 AM
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16. sonia gandhi is italian.
the alternative wasnt privatization but a nation lead by hindu right wingers
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amazona Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-04 10:07 AM
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22. ok thanks!
I have to admit the alternative does not sound attractive.
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rooboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-04 09:49 AM
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4. I think I'd have to check her teeth first. n/t
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Sapphocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 06:10 AM
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31. Roo!
You're gonna get your arse smacked once the pommies see that! :D
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amazona Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-04 09:50 AM
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6. I'm ABB all the way...
The Whistleass makes even the awful Margaret Thatcher look good. Anyway, if you stop and think about it, a corrupt outsider is always better than a corrupt insider, because the outsider will be hit with obstacles every step of the way.
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Kolesar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-04 09:50 AM
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8. How soon can she start? If it's Wednesday, she's hired! eom
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-04 09:54 AM
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14. Now WAIT A Dang minute!
Edited on Tue May-18-04 09:55 AM by Misunderestimator
I answered and then you changed the poll question... no fair!

:wtf:

That definitely changes my answer.

:)
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La Lioness Priyanka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-04 09:55 AM
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15. i am difficult :(
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-04 10:13 AM
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24. LOL.... and manipulative? (just kidding) n/t
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La Lioness Priyanka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-04 10:22 AM
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26. and sleepy
:yawn:
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ZenLefty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-04 09:59 AM
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17. You changed the poll.
I wouldn't be okay with someone JUST as corrupt as bush, and it doesn't matter who they pander to.
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La Lioness Priyanka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-04 10:00 AM
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18. yes
i decided there was inadequate information
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FarmerOak Donating Member (528 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-04 10:01 AM
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19. I would be OK with it
but only if we could have that dominatrix from The Weakest Link.

SHE could make us behave.
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LDS Jock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-04 10:02 AM
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20. I would be OK with the English president
It is almost a no win situation you propose, with both sides corrupt. The swing for me is one is religious right, the other is not. If nothing else, at least I wouldn't have someone trying to force their religious beliefs on me.
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La Lioness Priyanka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-04 10:03 AM
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21. thats sort of the same sentiment india voted on
and i agree with your reasoning....
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-04 10:08 AM
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23. not president
but Queen!
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-04 10:14 AM
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25. Just as corrupt as *? Of course not. eom
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La Lioness Priyanka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-04 12:37 PM
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27. kick
:kick:
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slinkerwink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-04 09:37 PM
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29. I'd take Nixon over Dubya anyday!
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-04 09:50 PM
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30. I'd rather have a Mozambican/Portuguese woman as my first lady!
Teresa Heinz Kerry, obviously.

Clearly your unnamed English woman is a stand-in for Sonia Gandhi, who will NOT accept the PM position in India and has thrown her support behind a finance minister (?) who is Sikh, a nice in-your-face to the hardcore Hindu nationalists who carped incessantly over her Italian origins.

No Italian woman has ever been PM in Italy. Kind of a shame it couldn't happen, in a way...
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shimmergal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 11:17 AM
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32. Her Italian birth may not be the reason Sonia Gandhi declined.
I've read that she's _not_ a "natural" politician, but led and campaigned for the Congress Party more out of a sense of obligation rather than wanting to be PM.

Also, given the family's sad history of assassinations, she might feel it would happen again. Like Ted Kennedy recused himself from further presidential runs.
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