WTF is up with you Brits?

[BlueSkyJaunte]

This: http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1329728,00.html

In response to this: http://guardian.assets.digivault.co.uk/clark_county/

Unbelievable.

[magilla]

There are some real "ugly Americans" in those responses, but it was funny, anyway. Good find, Blue!

[dd74]

What do you expect? Anything's possible once there was word a Brit would play Rhet Butler in the remake of "Gone With the Wind."

[BlueSkyJaunte]

Seriously, if I got a personally addressed letter from anybody telling me how to vote, I'd tell them to go to hell. Talk about impertinence...

[kach22i]

I would think most people would place a "value" on a hand written letter in a persons own words. The personal time and commitment to make such an effort (even if it's not 100% agreeable with your own views) must mean something, anything if individual rights are to honored and cherished.

The colorful and angry letters in that first link, tells me that some Americans and wound up a little too tight and could stand to enjoy a Guinness.

Yellow teeth limey bastards.....................funny, but what's the point?

[dd74]

Originally posted by kach22i
I would think most people would place a "value" on a hand written letter in a persons own words. The personal time and commitment to make such an effort (even if it's not 100% agreeable with your own views) must mean something, anything if individual rights are to honored and cherished.

The colorful and angry letters in that first link, tells me that some Americans and wound up a little too tight and could stand to enjoy a Guinness.

Yellow teeth limey bastards.....................funny, but what's the point?

Good on you, mate, for selling the American voter short -- that's the point.

So you would take a nice hand-written note FROM A FOREIGNER IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY as a substitute over your one defined right as an American to vote for whom you please? Do you think Brits know this country and its perils better than this country's citizens? Or is your partianship toward the left speaking for you once again only because the "writers" overtly disparage Bush in their letters? Oh how upset you must be at Putin for telling Americans that Bush is the right guy for the job in the next four years.

Screw Britain (and Russia), and whatever the hell either country thinks should be the outcome of Nov. 2nd. After pondering this, I believe it highly insulting that British citizens have the gall to write American voters in order to sway the American vote. Trying to vote for either Bush or Kerry is hard enough as it is (at least for me). I'm sure many Americans don't need foreign intervention taxing them with such a crucial upcoming decision.

Personally I like the idea of returning the favor and sway their voting process; first we encourage them to kick out that vascilating wimp Blair, and furthermore, take over British investments in this country and use it to pay down our deficit.

After all, the Queen is the largest owner of livestock futures in the U.S., from what I've heard. That's meat for the masses - the U.S. masses.

Maybe we can even convince the Brits to behead the old bag.

[gaijinda]

Relax dd. Do you really think the Queen own more cattle futures than McDonalds?? Think about it..

Otherwise, this is boorish example of left leaning Brits. Do you think these wankers are going to share their opinions on eating meat, owning firearms and modern dentistry? Oh, I hope so!!

Again, more obsession with the office of the US Presidency than is healthy. They should worry more about their local MPs and how they are going to fix their own crappy rails, health system and juvenile crime. Much easier to kavetch over Bush.

Methinks this might backfire. Who remembers the Great Gatsby? What was said about the neighbor who would not be bought off and change the roof on his garage??

[dd74]

Methinks? Methinks Nick should've run over Daisy.

[kach22i]

Originally posted by dd74
for selling the American voter short

You are using hate, fear and your ignorance against me. Let me shine a little light on you, as a Howard Dean supporter I wrote a bunch of letters to people all over the country including Iowa and New Hampshire. The outcome was not what I wanted, but I NEVER recieved a letter saying "what the heck does a guy from Michigan think he can tell me that I don't already know". I gave my return address and my personal reasons for supporting some guy from Vermont, I trust they were well recieved if not influencial.

If you believe in freedom of speech, and that you just might not have a complete world view despite watching Fox or CNN or BBC or reading the Toronto Star then reading what someone else has to say might be relevant and something new to be learned.

I know Tony Blair is not running again, but if he were I bet some Americans would feel compelled to voice their opinions no mater what venue was avaliable to them.

Without having a few of those letters in my hands, dare I condem them, can you?

Arragonce is not a virture, ignorance is not a strength. Live well and prosper my Vulcan friend.

[dd74]

And idealism, in your case, is political suicide. Live well and prosper...in England.

[layzee]

Originally posted by gaijinda

Again, more obsession with the office of the US Presidency than is healthy. They should worry more about their local MPs and how they are going to fix their own crappy rails, health system and juvenile crime. Much easier to kavetch over Bush.

Our obsession is not unhealthy. You might not have noticed but your choice of president has a huge effect on the world. See war on Iraq and 'War on Terror'. Its hardly surprising other countries take such a keen interest. Our rail network (got Amtrack?) is a bit lower down the list than war.

This is people power, hardly anything compared to the huge sway mulitnational corporations have over US politics. Is there going to be an outrage over foreign interests meddling in US elections on message boards everywhere? I doubt it.

[jyl]

Testy, testy. Lighten up, folks. So someone in another country wanted to express his/her own opinion and went to the trouble of sending a letter to some American. Why is this such an outrage? If the letter's not welcome, toss it. If it is thought-provoking, then read it.

Don't know about you, but I get a 6" thick stack of junk mail daily, that no-one even took the trouble to hand write. Including, lately, all kinds of stuff from the campaigns. I toss it all, and I don't bust a vein over it.

[kach22i]

We are all going batty, just 14 more days to pick on each other.

[gaijinda]

This is called "twisting the tail of the lion". When the Limeys colonized half the world, they could do no right by the chattering classes and editorial boards in the other half... Now that their Lucas powered work ethic and class system has caught up with them, they get to gripe about us. Fair enough.

But an organized campaign by a foreign left-wing newspaper to influence an American election somehow sticks in the craw of some citizens.. It is a novel idea, an actual handwritten letter, but I do not think it will work.

Now who remembers watching Thacher on "Nightline"?? She had more Tory converts in the USA than back in Ol' Blighty..

[911pcars]

Wait a minute. We have our collective underpants in a pinch because some people (Brits, our allies) are suggesting we vote a certain way?

Hmmm. I wonder if the people in Iraq might feel the same way about our involvement in their politics?

And we shouldn't have an opinion about the retirement plan of Kim Jong-Il or the tactics of Ariel Sharon or Khamenei?

Hey, just look at it as another point of view from the rest of the world rather than insulting one's perception of the world. No one is right all the time unless you're flintstone.

Sherwood

[SLO-BOB]

[dd74]

Fred Flintstone? A cartoon character?

I think the saving grace about any of this is no one has taken Britain seriously since, oh, the 19th century, maybe even the early 20th century.

BTW: they have their own problems. For one, the Queen's English in the country is rapidly being displaced by various dialects of Arabic.