Change Kudos to Likes?

[Tino]

Silly child! I did not take offense. Gave that up as bad for my health!

Your constant name calling and condescension suggest otherwise.

We do not do "endorsements" here in OZ ...being a Penal colony we have a very healthy disregard for such things. Which is why I questioned such a posit.

That's a lovely story, and you tell it with such enthusiasm, but you're just factually wrong about endorsements in Australia. Here are the Australian newspaper endorsements from your 2010 federal elections:

The Advertiser - Labor
The Age - Labor
The Australian - Liberal
The Australian Financial Review - Liberal
The Canberra Times - Labor
The Courier-Mail - Liberal National
The Daily Telegraph - Liberal
The Herald Sun - Liberal
The Mercury - Labor
Northern Territory News - Labor
The Sydney Morning Herald - Labor
The West Australian - Liberal

I AM naive as to the workings of American politics and fail to understand WHY such "endorsements" would carry any weight at all. Are you trying to tell me that Americans are so stupid as to follow said "endorsements"?

Second time now - the value of the endorsement is the argument behind it.

Yes you are whiney. My dear Tino you are whining about the "endorsements" issue ...YOUR VOTE Counts!! Why are you whining about it? Go and VOTE!! Only an infant would whinge about the odds stacked against his preferred outcome.... VOTE!

I see no odds stacked against my preferred outcome and don't worry, I'll be voting. Suggest you do the same.

For us here our government is about 50 years behind the times and very good at rhetoric but fucking hopeless at actually DOING ANYTHING!

Unfortunately for you, at least one thing they got done was implementing a carbon tax which has increased your electricity cost between 10% and 20% depending on where you live in Australia, while accomplishing nothing for CO2 reduction.