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My fellow constituents. Election day draws near for the United States of America. In light of the presidential race, this month's theme shall be politics. Political leaders, political parties, or even images related to politics.

 

My fellow constituents. Election day draws near for the United States of America. In light of the presidential race, this month's theme shall be politics. Political leaders, political parties, or even images related to politics.

 

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Please keep it civil in choosing your avatar.

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And they are not limited to IRL things either, as is evidenced by FRAYDO voting for snoopy :v

 

Anyway, MAKE W3DHUB GREAT AGAIN.....................AND BUILD A WALL AROUND IT AND MAKE THE TESTERS PAY FOR IT! :D

Then change your bloody avatar! :v

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Pierre Elliot Trudeau. A man whom half of the country despised, and the other half adored. However, he was still more respected that his demagogue of a son Justin, whom coddles radical islamists, feminazis and uneducated stoners. I miss when our leaders had "balls".



This was his response in an interview towards declaring marshal law against terrorism. Too bad that he turned the west against the east & the french against the english or he would have been our greatest PM.

But, my relative put this turd in his place. The right, the honourable, Mr. Joesph Clark. It's wild how a debate that is over 35 years old is still touching on issues that to this day have not been rectified.


We have fallen so far in western politics. After some elementary study these were the last men who actually represented their constituents. I remember all the stories I heard of "Honest Joe" doing what he believed was best for our country. He never said anything he didn't stalwartly believe, and you can see this in that debate. He came off as sheepish in comparison to the strong personality that Trudeau radiated. It was rather entertaining to see how much Trudeau blatantly copied and utilized his policies after such stalwart opposition to them. I enjoy how much the Liberal and NDP (socialist) candidates suck up to the areas of a large voting base such as Quebec, Ontario and the maritimes.

The division caused by this man is still vividly real to this day. Out west, we have "Republic of Alberta" and "Let the eastern bastards freeze in the dark" on the back windows and bumpers of our pickup trucks. It pains me to see such disunity among my countrymen. A vocal, but growing minority are even speaking of how Alberta deserves a referendum much like Quebec received in 1980 and 1995.

TL;DR The best Canadian politicians come from Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario with the select few from Quebec.

Then we get to Peter Lougheed, a premier who created a conservative dynasty that lasted just shy of half a century. This man was the beginning of what made us the richest province in this country. Then there is the true patriot and average joe that was Ralph Klein. The man was a folksy, high school dropout of modest means who lived in the same bungalow he purchased in his youth. When he became Premier, we had the largest deficit in the country and by the end of his tenure we were the richest. I still remember my centennial coin, and 400 dollar cheque which I spent buying The First Decade and my first computer. The man was a drunk,(& a loud mouth) but he represented his province dutifully, & he respected all it's hardworking members. A truly under appreciated and unknown man and all politicians could service us better if they took a page from Mr. Klein.
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Enough of my preaching, post your pics. Good choice of theme FRAYDONUB

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Should have probably told you guys about the man in my avatar.

 

Willem Drees was pretty much our best prime minister of all time. He was in office from 1948 until 1958 and oversaw a bunch of key post-war developments: the reconstruction of our country (wederopbouw), the traumas of decolonisation, economic growth, the establishment of our welfare state, and the formation of the Benelux, OEEC, ECSC, EEC and Nato.

 

He was a left-wing politician, but he strongly disagreed with the ''new'' left-wing ideas of the 1960s and renounced his membership of the party he used to lead (Dutch Labour Party/PVDA). One would wonder what he would have thought about the current trends in the even newer far-left and far-right politics.

 

Besides, he has a great mustache.

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I like Ike.

Thanks to that, I got an idea for my avatar, Colin Powell: Former General, Secretary of State, and (in some alternate universes) President of the United States.

Also, my dad guarded his office back when Powell was in charge of V Corps in Germany in the mid 80's.

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