Day: April 20, 2008

Before voting for the Lisbon treaty make sure you:

• read it
• understand it
• agree with it

Having a constitutional right to vote doesn’t mean someone should exercise it with less sensitivity than a 4 year old trying to decide which cereal to have for their breakfast. Having found the time to read some of the Lisbon treaty I must concur with Ulick McEvaddy. It’s incomprehensible and problematic for this country in many interpretations. The government is bound to campaign for a yes vote. When you listen to their arguments consider that the EU is so democratic that only a tiny fraction of EU citizens can cast their vote to decide whether to ratify it or not.

“It’s 3am and your children are safe and asleep, but there is a phone in the White House and it’s ringing. Something is happening in the world. Your vote will decide who answers that call. Whether it is someone who already knows the world’s leaders and knows the military, someone tested and ready to lead in a dangerous world. It’s 3am and your children are safe and asleep, who do you want answering the phone?”
If you’d rather the whitehouse phone doesn’t ring at 3am in the morning with news of some impending international catastrophe.. if you’d prefer a happier and more peaceful world.. then vote for Obama 🙂
Seriously, what a patronising, syllogistic and trite piece of negativity all contained in one advertisement. Speaks volumes.