we get a spin on american politics regardless, it is just that it is a lot more homogenized; every news outlet here will tell you tea party folk are insane, and that republicans slaughter children to become richer.
I just wouldn't expect people on your side of the Pond to get worked up enough about it to devote that much effort. They have their OWN politicians to promote and defame. 
First of all, maybe we don't get as much details on presidential candidates fucking around while wife has cancer, and honestly, nobody cares much anyway, except for a general hatred of politicians.
But you have to realise that many people are affected by the biggest player in world politics, and quite a few by the US too.
' /> So there is an interest there. Then you have to slap on an image of the Americans being selfish, otherwise nobody will believe the news. (That would just be unrealistic)With that starting point, reports of what is happening in america is more or less limited to "The good president Obama has instituted national health care in the US. It is not a particularly efficient national health care system (that is, it sucks), and still most americans complain that they have to pay for others".
It just isn't very fair, certainly unbalanced, and on the whole, not to be taken seriously, but way too many idiots do so. Then again, the basic premises of americans being self-centered is certainly true, but who isn't?
"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world" - Calvin.
Healthcare Question for RAFOlk Overseas:
- 22/08/2010 04:28:58 PM
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Because they don't know the details.
- 22/08/2010 04:57:32 PM
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That also makes a lot of sense.
- 22/08/2010 05:07:31 PM
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I don't know that Europeans are all that objective, either.
- 22/08/2010 05:20:09 PM
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Well, more objective about our politicians than we are, I think.
- 22/08/2010 05:44:51 PM
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I think that what he is trying to say is that you're just wrong there.
- 22/08/2010 07:45:07 PM
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There's always going to be a certain amount of spin.
- 22/08/2010 08:20:54 PM
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It's a weird assumption.
- 22/08/2010 09:00:01 PM
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Re: It's a weird assumption.
- 22/08/2010 09:11:25 PM
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except in issues regarding whales, whale issues, whaling, or whale meat. *NM*
- 23/08/2010 04:24:10 PM
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do you believe the reverse is true?
- 22/08/2010 07:49:07 PM
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I think so, honestly, but maybe I'm being naive.
- 22/08/2010 08:16:12 PM
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could be simply becuase they don't matter as much outside the few biggies
- 22/08/2010 09:43:01 PM
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Re: could be simply becuase they don't matter as much outside the few biggies
- 23/08/2010 04:27:52 PM
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Really? An Elephant?
- 23/08/2010 04:44:55 PM
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I think if I suggested that I would have been shot *NM*
- 23/08/2010 04:47:24 PM
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*NM*
- 23/08/2010 04:47:24 PM
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Well, hopefully you at least got a laugh out of it.
- 23/08/2010 04:50:40 PM
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- 23/08/2010 04:50:40 PM
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I did 
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- 23/08/2010 04:52:22 PM
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*NM*
- 23/08/2010 04:52:22 PM
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thank you for reminding us why the jack ass is the symbol for the democratic party
- 23/08/2010 05:19:35 PM
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