[gcruse]

foreign election observers or stand for their liberty by saying no

If there's nothing wrong with our election process, why would I object to someone watching?  God knows we send observers at the drop of a hat ourselves. My liberty is no more at stake here than by having foreign military observers do joint ops with American troops.

[James Mabry]

Are you being sarcastic? If not, my response to you is:

You DumbAss, you SOOOO Do Not Get It!

The basic rule is: If you see a Blue Helmet at the polls -- Shoot a hole the size of Texas right through it. A bloody, dead as a door nail hole so big there'll be no hanging chad, ergh, brains. A clean hole with nothing but a nice whistlin breeze a blowin through.

[snopercod]

If there's nothing wrong with our election process, why would I object to someone watching?

Any American has that right. You can walk down to your board of elections right now and sign up to be a poll observer.

But foreigners have no right to join in the conduct of our elections here in the U.S.. Those are run by the states, and the U.S. constitution specifically prohibits any state from making an alliance with a foreign power.

It's a given that the OSCE will find "irregularities" in the 2004 elections. What then? Should we grant unelected, non-citizen, foreign "observers" the right to veto our constitutional processes for electing our representatives?

On what basis and under what law?

[Vinnie]

If there's nothing wrong with our election process, why would I object to someone watching?

With the likes of Alcee Hastings involved you know that some impropriety is bound to be found, Republican of course.

Then what?