My Little Election Soapbox
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by Teucer
It's early (5:30 AM), so I'm gonna make this short and sweet.
I'm looking at the presidential goals for each candidate this morning and I see Jewitt wants to take two regions from the UK. Now I wanna shoot the UK as bad as everyone else, but frankly opening all of their MPPs for revenge is no different than what Spain has did with France (and yes I've seen plenty of Americans complaining about how bad Spain is for doing that). So why would it be any different for us? Not only that, but tactically the US has far more good options than invading the UK. I'm a Joint Chief, I can vouch for this.
Basically, Jewitt posting that is the equivalent of that kid in high school who promises free vending machines (or some such dumb thing) in order to suck up easy votes for class president. He's pandering to the uneducated two clicker and as I can see he has taken a small lead so far. Josh Frost has done an extraordinary job as President, so for the love of god REELECT HIM!
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Vote for the SURE SHOT - FROSTMAXXXXX!
Agreed completely. It's a poor decision based on poor/pointless intentions. With a platform like that I was forced to vote Frost.
I agree with you. We probably will invade the eUK eventually, but Jewitt's statement seemed to be kinda irresponsible and too politically-motivated.
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Agreed! Vote for Frost!
Teucer, if you remember correctly, Josh Frost promised that by the end of this term we would own eUK's regions.
He didn't do it because we got better options. Before he was elected we did not have those options, so promising that would have given us a solid war.
"He didn't do it because we got better options. Before he was elected we did not have those options, so promising that would have given us a solid war."
So you're saying that it's okay for JF to lie about taking over eUK (at a time when "I STAND READY..." was just as, if not more, prevalent than it is now) if other options come up but when Jewitt promises the same thing it's just pandering for votes?
The difference is that Jewitt is privy to knowing about these current options and still chose to promise a UK invasion. Josh didn't lie, he simply went with a different plan that is BETTER for the US that came up after his election.
Jewitt played a political gambit. He has already disclaimed the UK invasion. It is ALWAYS possible to claim that you cannot put offensive military goals into the national goals because it warns the enemy. Jewitt beat Josh by playing a better POLITICAL game. Josh could have defused it by using the right PR, but too little came out too late.
Josh couldn't get his national goals up, so basically he got screwed by the game. Also, getting elected shouldn't be a political game, it should be about real issues.