If the world could vote for the US president...

[RICHARD]

If EVERYONE else at a dinner party tells you that you have spinach between your teeth and your toliet paper stuck on your shoe ... what are you going to do?

You are an idiot because you have spinach on your teeth or toilet paper on your shoe?

That's funny.

I can hardly wait to see a woman who has lipstick on her teeth, or her blouse isn't tucked into her pants or skirt or her bra strap is showing.

I''ll be sure to lean over and tell her what her problem is and remind her that she may be an idiot.

It's all in the way a person is approached. The sledgehammer to drive a tack is they fastest way to be ignored. IT's no wonder we ignore most of the "helpful" hints from overseas.

Think about it. They could be superpowers too, it just takes a second to look in the mirror or a peek at their shoes.

[Edwina's Secretary]

Sledgehammer....invasion....I think I am seeing the light.

Perhaps the fact that we have used the "Sledgehammer" so often causes apprehension about our intentions?

Shah of Iran, Pinochet, Saddam (when we put him in and when we took him out)

[Lady's Human]

In Saddam's case, Sara, we didn't quite put him in ..........

He murdered he opposition party.

He was an assasin before he came to power, and took power the same way. We were dealing with him in the '70s and 80's because on the surface he was the lesser of two evils, the other evil being Russian control of the Gulf region.

[Edwina's Secretary]

So we were...trying to influence the internal politics of another country?

As you sow, so shall you reap?

(ALthough I have to say...I struggle to consider an on-line poll trying to influence our internal politics!)

[Lady's Human]

Sara, note the "short of war" statement I made.

To avoid war it's one thing. To do it because you're a bunch of sheep following the beat of the "we don't like them" drummers in the UN is something else entirely.

BTW, it's not a just one online poll. It's the constant drumbeat from international sources telling us who to elect.

I wouldn't do it to them, (again, short of a wartime situation), and they should do the same.

[Edwina's Secretary]

We started a war to influence another country's internal politics.

Not to avoid a war...we started a war. Can you get much more intrusive than that?

Who's "them" anyway? No one from international sources has tried to influence my vote?

[Lady's Human]

Sara, if you refer to Iraq, we're going to have to agree to disagree.

If we weren't at war with them prior to the invasion there are some Falcon, Jaguar and Strike Eagle pilots who'd like an explanation of just what it was that put holes in their birds.

We could go to the 14 UN resolutions, breaches of the cease fire agreement, ad nauseum, but that's been rehashed and argued in this forum far too many times to no result.

If you don't know which international sources have been trying to influence votes in this country, you haven't been paying very close attention to the news and political rallies at all.