Obamamercial

Sooo Obama just said that he's going to give us back our democracy.*

That's rather impressive. Zilch stuff overall, since nothing has changed in the last 30 years or so. That change? 18 year olds can vote. That's it...

Unless he wants to turn us into Switzerland.

You see, Switzerland does have an executive branch, but its legislature tends to do relatively little, since there are lots and lots of referendums. You know: guns, privatizing health care, whether or not Switzerland should join the UN, etc. You might not want America to be a Switzerland, though- all the males are soldiers who have their military equipment nearby at all times. In that way Switzerland will be ready for war with Germany, America, or the Soviet Union. The Swiss even contemplated having a nuke.

And you all know America would ban all forms of taxation if given the chance by referendums.

Or he could mean Libya, where there is no legislature whatsoever, since "everyone" actually votes in all the policies. Well, if it wasn't a Qaddafian dictatorship anyway. But only those who think Obama is a Marxist Muslim Terrorist would actually believe that.

Unfortunately, it probably has nothing to do with political reform- unless you consider unitary Democratic government with a brain-dead Republican opposition a "reform." Sigh...

Just as long as he doesn't want to turn us into Canada, where the Prime Minister is a virtual dictator and the Senate is stuck in the 18th century (where all the senators are appointed by the Prime Minister). I mean, Bush wasn't able to throw the entire Democratic party into Guantanamo. That's because the Congress wouldn't allow it and the Supreme Court would declare it unconstitutional, among other things.

Besides, our Senate used to be like that. Notice how we gave up on that?

Yeah...just a little annoyed, that's all.

*I haven't actually watched it, but it's nice to hear I actually missed something. He might not have actually said that. Please tell me he didn't say that.