Say it isn't so. Could it possibly be true? Intrigue, intrigue, intrigue.
wow. i live in sydney (aus) and just now received a spam from this "ben" character asking that i vote for his apartment. sad state of affairs if you ask me, mate. but fairly consistent with voting practices in your country.
Our team of specially trained undercover assassin SEALS is in Australia now, speaking with victims....
I'm sooo being maligned. I don't spam - don't know how.
And why are all those who are outraged at this supposed spamming - also full-fledged supporters of my worthy opponents? Hmmmm...
It's the closets, Stupid-
Ben
Talk about a small mind that chooses to associate spam with our last election. I mean jeez Bush won by the slimmest margin and Kerry got more votes than Gore! I think this Australian is calling the kettle black when their own PM has troops in Iraq to the ire of the rest of their country as well! High and mighty, as if half of our country is not still bleeding from the election. That just makes me mad.
I believe the only reported effort by foreigners to influence the outcome of the Presidential election was the minor flap over the British letterwriting campaign for Kerry.
However, at the end of the day results speak for themselves. The younger Bush is the first President in sixteen years to receive a majority of the popular vote -- A feat Clinton never accomplished, since this was the seventh consecutive election in which the Democratic nominee failed to reach that threshold.
Had Kerry been running against Gore, the results of their match-up would have mattered. As it was, at least 12 million more votes were cast in 2004 than 2000, enabling each major-party candidate to set a record -- Bush's being that he received the largest number of votes of any Presidential candidate in U.S. History.
Half of our country is not bleeding from anything. I know; I give blood regularly, but not that regularly.
I know it's an unpopular opinion on this otherwise wonderful blog, but you may find that throwing out sour grapes has a greater therapeutic effect than tidying a medicine cabinet or organizing a closet.