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Election Day in NB - Putting the mock in democracy.

Today is the provincial election in New Brunswick. As usual it is a two horse race with the Premier Bernard Lord's Conservatives trying to hold on to their power and Shawn Graham's Liberals trying to regain the McKenna Magic.

Elections are always a great source of debate at the Embassy. Not over policy or parties just simply over whether or not an uninformed vote is worse then no vote at all. I like to tell Normy that his voter apathy would be unheard of among his Arab brethren to which he always responds - "Man, I'm from Norway!". He likes to tell me that he would rather not vote then vote based on pictures(he has also taken voter secrecy to a whole new level by not only keeping who he voted for secret but also whether voted at all). Well who would you vote for? They both look the same - slightly rat-faced and pointy - and based on this picture have similar thoughts on what business casual means. From a few years of seeing them around Freddy Beach I can say that Premier Lord personality makes Weekend at Bernie's jokes far too easy. Mr. Graham seems more at ease in a crowd, smiles bigger, and his wife is slightly more attractive. This all means that he is likely just a better faker, or at least better at faking me.

The polls were virtually neck and neck coming into election day and it is truly up in the air. Well I guess that's not really accurate; it's actually in the hands of the voters...or the people that don't vote because of their Scandanavian socialist history. Stormer is likely right on one thing though; whoever is in there probably isn't going to do too much that is going to change his day to day routine but he sure will be pissed when he sees that election coverage pre-empts reruns of Rockstar. Is this what they meant in school when then talked about laissez-faire?

Vote for Pedro

posted by Vitamin S @ 5:41 p.m.