time for some european politics

[Bob]

The polls that showed that a majority of French who voted against the constitution had no idea what it said really frightened me.
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I'd be more frightened if they'd voted for the constitution without knowing what it said. If you don't know what the change your being asked to make is it's better to keep the status quo, the change can always be reintroduced later. Lots of ugly bills have been introduced in the US where congresspeople have voted 'for' without reading what they've voted for, I say "go the French for not doing the same here".

It seems there have been a lot of French mixing up "Referendum about the proposed European constitution" with "Referendum about Chirac and his politics". I guess they were not aware of the harm they have done.

I fail to see how the French have done 'harm' to europe. They were asked what they thought best for them and that's what they voted for. There's no point having a vote on it if you have to vote yes 'for the good for Europe'. If you don't like Chirac and his politics and he tells you to vote 'yes' to some sort of sweeping change, are you going to vote for it?


None of that was meant to come across in an offensive or aggressive manner, I'm just really bad at composing posts in a peaceful tone.

-Bob