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General Elections in Sweden | 28 comments (28 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
Re: General Elections in Sweden (4.00 / 2)
Well, that's a fine thing.  You've got a wonderful (to an American leftie) PR/parliamentary system and it looks like the parties are moving toward a two-party system.  
by FoolsErrand on Fri Sep 10th, 2010 at 03:37:03 PM EST
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Well, I wouldn't call a two-party system a fine thing...

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Fri Sep 10th, 2010 at 04:19:21 PM EST
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Read it like a fellow sitting on a bar stool next to you takes a long pool from a pint, sighs, and declares to the general assembly, "Well, that's a fine thing!" ...

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Sat Sep 11th, 2010 at 12:45:02 PM EST
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Re: General Elections in Sweden (4.00 / 2)
From what I gather Alliance is a coalition of parties and that's a different thing.

Besides, things are way different in Sweden, e.g., the Moderate Party (center) would comprise the left wing of the Dems here in the US.  

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Fri Sep 10th, 2010 at 06:50:36 PM EST
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Re: General Elections in Sweden (4.00 / 4)
My bad.  I forgot, on the Internet, no one can tell when you're being sarcastic.  I would be happy, I am sure, with any of the parties on the Swedish ballot.  I am certainly not happy with any of my choices here in the US of A.
by FoolsErrand on Fri Sep 10th, 2010 at 08:43:21 PM EST
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Grammatical mistake: number. (none / 1)
"I am certainly not happy with any of my choices here in the US of A."

Fixed.

The TexasTeaParty will never be allowed to take power ... though they will be permitted to take the occasional office, since that it not the same thing. So its CorporatePartyInc vs CorporatePartyInc.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.

by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Sat Sep 11th, 2010 at 12:47:47 PM EST
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