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Taro Toporific wrote:Hey, I'm not doing anything so could I be...http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_JAPAN_POLITICS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-08-26-01-12-09
Coligny wrote:i'm not exactly famous for any kind of stability or aptitude to lead a country or anything anywhere except on a path toward total anihilation...
cujojpn wrote:I find it to be ridiculous.
Yokohammer wrote:There is definitely something wrong here.
Ganma wrote:The one on the far right looks like he just shit his pants.
cujojpn wrote:I find it to be ridiculous.
Since my birth, there has only been one PM to serve a full term, Koizumi.
IparryU wrote:i said something like this to my wife and her family and their response was something along the lines of there is a third party that does nothing but try to find the bad things a PM does and knock on them...
like that doesn't happen anywhere else in the world...
:rolleyes2:
Yokohammer wrote:Noda ... oh great.
While Maehara, Mabuchi, and Kaieda all clearly stated their intention to reduce reliance on nuclear power and work towards clean, renewable energy, Noda, when asked the same questions, simply barfed up the age-old repeated-ad-nauseum j-pol bullshit about how the issue needed "serious consideration"* while adding that nuclear power would be "necessary for Japan's future."
Please, oh please prove me wrong, but I can't see this guy improving things anytime soon.
* Politician code for "I haven't got a fucking clue and have absolutely no intention of doing anything about it on my watch."
Ganma wrote:Definitely the worst pick of the bunch IMO. But whatever. Like we've discussed before all we can look forward to is more of the same stalemate and a new guy a few months down the line.
I predict this guy is going to say some right wing bullshit over the next few months that will 'strain' relations with Korea and Japan. Watch as the ship sinks a little lower.
Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:In his defense, the Far East War Crimes Tribunal was seriously, seriously flawed, so I can kinda see where he was coming from.
legion wrote:yeah, but when you lose a war you get fucked over, that's the way it goes, if you don't want that to happen either a) don't start a war or b) don't lose one
Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:Yeah, like the U.S. in Vietnam,
dimwit wrote:... Instead we witness something resembling a shareholders meeting done as quickly as possible to prevent disruptions by [s]gangsters[/s] the people they are supposed to be supporting.
Greji wrote:Vietnam? The media calls it a loss for the US, but fails to note that the military was ordered to pull out. If there was a loss, it fell on the government. They agreed to a truce with the North Vietnamese in Paris and ordered the pull out of military. The brilliant Washingtonites then showed their further expertise to gather votes from the anti-war crowd by banning all money and military assistance to our allies, the South Vietnamese, which, upon passage, enabled the North Vietnamese to immediately violate the peace accord and invade and capture the land and government of the South.
The US Congress lost the war, not the military.
Box Scores:
Government of North Vietnam: 1 - Congress of the US-0]You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Greji again.
Yokohammer wrote:... is exactly what it is. It's an inside joke that has nothing at all to do with the populace, no matter how much they're suffering.
Ask people up here in Miyagi or Iwate or Fukushima (or just about anywhere for that matter) what they think of the election and the most frequent answer you'll get is "not interested." "The government doesn't give a shit about us so why should we care?"
The government is out of touch and can't see past the end of their noses, and the people feel abandoned by the government yet they can't do anything about it. Things may seem stagnant on the surface, but I see this as a very volatile situation that could lead to big trouble.
Actually I think I'm more scared of what could happen politically than I am of radiation from Fukushima.
chokonen888 wrote:I just wish the rest of Japan was on board with that mindset. Instead, all you get is shoganai and sighs of "it'll never change."
sublight wrote:Noda's assessment of himself during the 2011 election for DPJ President: "I'll never be a goldfish in a scarlet robe, but like a loach in muddy waters. I'll work hard for the people, to move politics forward,"
According to Wikipedia, a loach is an eel-like, bottom-dwelling scavenger that will conceal itself out of nervousness.
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