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JoolsToo · 28/10/2004 22:34

I may well be alone here - but Question Time is about to start - in Florida with Michael Moore - should be interesting!

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mykidsmum · 28/10/2004 22:34

Tahnks am off to watch

Bladee · 28/10/2004 22:35

I'm going to bed... sorry!

sallystrawberry · 28/10/2004 22:36

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mykidsmum · 28/10/2004 23:53

great TV why does question time turn people into such prats perhaps they were before and I just didn't realise!! Surely all the guests can't be prats!

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JoolsToo · 28/10/2004 23:55

what drew my attention was the two American men - the hairstyles and the taught faces (and I don't mean Michael Moore )

what a problem they've got with that election - ouch!

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yoyo · 28/10/2004 23:56

Watched it and it was okay - no great shakes though. Don't feel that I have any greater insight into how the voting population of America feel/think than be reading the qualities daily.

mykidsmum · 28/10/2004 23:56

I am really glad i am not American I think such divisions must be commonplace in the work place etc and must be causing lots of heated debate. Found Michael Moore quite commical in a kind of farcical way

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JoolsToo · 29/10/2004 00:01

must admit to being a bit disappointed myself - the British one is much more interesting to me which I suppose is obvious.

Though it did open my eyes a bit with all this religious stuff - is Bush really going to change the abortion laws - or did I hear wrong?

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mykidsmum · 29/10/2004 00:03

I think in some states Kerry's pro Abortion views have lost him the vote as the population are so religious thatthey hate him based pretty much on this alone. I think is=ts crazy that anyone would make their vote based on something like this when there are so many complex issues that need adressing.

KateandtheGirls · 29/10/2004 00:14

Jools, Bush can't himself change the abortion laws. The issue is that he can change the make up of the Supreme Court. It is likely that at least one of the justices will retire (or snuff it) in the next 4 years and the President gets to nominate a replacement (it has to be approved by Congress, but if it's a Republican congress and Bush is still president, that won't be much of an issue). The fear is that he will appoint conservative judges, and if there is a conservative majority on the Supreme Court then they could overturn Roe vs. Wade. This is a ruling from the early 70's which, as I understand it, makes it illegal for individual states to ban abortion, thereby guaranteeing the right to an abortion wherever in the US you are. If Roe vs Wade is overturned individual states could choose to ban abortions, which many of them, especially in the bible belt, would, and there would be a return to back alley abortions.

I didn't see the program, but this is an important issue, and one of the reasons I'm very much anti-Bush.

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JoolsToo · 29/10/2004 00:16

blimey KATG - you should have been on there - I understood it much better from you!

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sallystrawberry · 29/10/2004 00:17

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KateandtheGirls · 29/10/2004 00:17
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JoolsToo · 29/10/2004 00:18

the audience was a lot more rowdy than the British one too! They all seem to be passionate about their politics!

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hunkermunker · 29/10/2004 00:18

Bugger. Missed it.

KateandtheGirls · 29/10/2004 00:20

Were the audience a mix of both sides?

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JoolsToo · 29/10/2004 00:21

very much so I'd say - it was on BBC World as well - do you get that?

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KateandtheGirls · 29/10/2004 00:21

No we don't.

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JoolsToo · 29/10/2004 00:21

Michael Moore looked like he needs a good scrub (and I ain't volunteering!)

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KateandtheGirls · 29/10/2004 00:22

Any other intricacies of US politics that I can help you understand?

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JoolsToo · 29/10/2004 00:22

All of it - if you've not got a date with a bathtub?

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mykidsmum · 29/10/2004 00:23

It made me laugh when michael Moore commented that The Brits know their history, sorry, do we?? Didn't actually take history at school so how does he know, nice that he thinks we are all so informed

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JoolsToo · 29/10/2004 00:24

I was going to say 'we're' not so gullible - then I had a rethink

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KateandtheGirls · 29/10/2004 00:25

Actually, the bathtub and a glass of wine sounds pretty good right now...!

mykidsmum · 29/10/2004 00:26

I think we weren't as blindly lead into war but then we hadn't been through what alot of Americans had just experienced.

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