President Obama's secret political affiliation REVEALED AT LAST: the Swedish Party.
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[URL]http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/11/06/let-america-become-swedens-fourth-state-an-unlikely-third-party-run/[/URL]
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[quote]If you’re finding yourself unhappy about the democratic and republican candidates in today’s U.S. presidential election and want to support an outsider, maybe the Swedish Party is for you.The totally fictional Swedish Party promises to transform the United States into a larger, warmer version of Sweden. Its presidential candidate, Johan (no last name), wants to give you universal health care, free education, neutral foreign policy, and two additional years to life expectancy. His campaign platform is built on “the individual freedom at the heart of the American dream, put into practice by the Swedish Party via the Swedish model.”The page is registered to a Swedish email address that appears to belong to Malmo-based artist [URL="http://www.uvelov.se/cv.php"]Maria Uvelöv[/URL]; here’s some of [URL="http://www.uvelov.se/body.php"]her work[/URL]. The Swedish Party seems like it’s mostly a clever way to either tease Americans about U.S. shortcomings or to sell them on becoming more like Sweden. (Maybe both.) Here’s [URL="http://theswedishparty.org/index.php?page=sweden"]the party’s case[/URL] for adopting the Swedish model:Sweden is often cited as one of the safest and best countries to live in, much of this due to the Swedish Model with its focus on maximum labor force participation, gender equality, egalitarian benefits, social safety nets and extremely low levels of corruption. With a stable economy, low unemployment rates and the fact that Sweden hasn’t been to war for over 200 years it is easy to see what the Swedish Model could do for America.
The Swedish model is probably not right for the U.S. for a number of reasons – I’ll limit myself to the foreign policy, in which isolationism might not work for a country that’s more invested in maintaining global trade and security than any other.Still, the Swedish Party is not wrong about Sweden’s successes. According to some global indicators, it is the world’s [URL="http://www.sida.se/Global/About Sida/Så arbetar vi/EIU_Democracy_Index_Dec2011.pdf"]fourth healthiest democracy[/URL] and [URL="http://cpi.transparency.org/cpi2011/results/"]fourth least corrupt[/URL] nation; economic inequality is among the world’s lowest, economic competitiveness among its highest, and it’s one of the world’s most gender-equal societies. A 2011 UN [URL="http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR_2011_EN_Complete.pdf"]report[/URL] found that Sweden’s human development index, adjusted for inequality, was the world’s third best.So how does America reach this Swedish ideal, according to the Swedish Party?
The platform is pretty simple:The Swedish Party, five easy steps
1. Free health care for everyone
2. Free education for everyone
3. Five weeks fully paid vacation a year and 13 months parental leave for each child
4. A budget in balance
5. No wars, we stay neutral
If you’re sold on this plan, bad news: the Swedish Party is not on any ballots. Even the mightiest Super PAC couldn’t push them through, as the party does not accept donations. (“[URL="http://theswedishparty.org/index.php?page=donate"]Keep your money. Vote for the Swedish party.[/URL]“)
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Even Johan does not appear to be real. Although I noticed something odd when I tried to reverse-Google-image-search [URL="http://theswedishparty.org/images/main-box-johan.jpg"]his picture[/URL] to find out his real identity. No matter how I cropped the image of the Swedish Party’s presidential candidate, Google’s results for the image were always the same: it identified the photo as being of President Obama. Maybe the fabled [URL="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056218/"]Manchurian candidate[/URL] is actually an [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Östergötland"]Östergötlandian[/URL] candidate?[/B][/quote]
I KNEW OBAMA WAS A SOCIALIST TRAITOR
[sp][B]Update:[/B] [URL="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/11/06/the-story-behind-the-swedish-party-americas-other-option/"]Here’s the story behind the Swedish Party[/URL], which appears to be an intern project from a Swedish PR firm.[/sp]
I.. I think I'm okay with this.
Nifty website for some interns though. PR ones at that.
Can we all become as beautiful as Swedish people too?
Oh god so many blond people!
I want to be an american and vote for this party
[QUOTE=VOSK;38450203]Can we all become as beautiful as Swedish people too?[/QUOTE]
free plastic surgery
Free birth control for ugly people.
[QUOTE=Lizzrd;38450281]Free birth control for ugly people.[/QUOTE]
Right to internet for ugly people
(oh wait that's finland)
ja
[editline]14th November 2012[/editline]
det här är bra
Age of consent in Sweden is also like 15. Not to mention swedes are hotties. LETS DO THIS.
I like the flag design.
obama är egentligen greger
lmao
Detta är bra.
I'm all for this, but I'm gonna stick to moving to Sweden anyways.
[QUOTE=MILKE;38451638]sverige är helt okej imo[/QUOTE]
nie
The swedish party of America - Building a better tomorrow, today.
SVERIGE Knulla JA!
[QUOTE=Bird;38452279]What are they on about, Sweden is incredibly dependent on trade and exporting. Our entire economy is built upon the fact that we can export everything from iron and lumber to cars and trucks. Also, Sweden has really open borders. Going to Norway? No passport needed. Going to Denmark or Finland? No passport checks there either. We also have a healthy number of immigrants coming to Sweden. We also have troops in Afghanistan, and Swedish aircraft were involved in the liberation of Libya. If I missed something obvious, please tell me, but I don't see how our foreign policy is even close to "isolationism". Maybe they mean that it is widely considered stupid to go kill people and start a bunch of wars around the world in Sweden.[/QUOTE]
ignorantjournalists.txt
I guess lots of people have capitalized on the "America is so crap compared to x country" joke. A couple of comedians from canada have done [url=http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/canada-party-offers-viable-candidate-u-presidential-race-204828868.html]the same thing.[/url]
[QUOTE=trotskygrad;38450298]Right to internet for ugly people
(oh wait that's finland)[/QUOTE]:C
[QUOTE=Joazzz;38452638]:C[/QUOTE]
wasn't implying that finns were ugly, just was saying finland is the only country where internet is a right for everyone (including ugly people)
Does this mean we get Swedish Fish for free? Aw man, this is gonna be awesome!
I bet you can smell the fremented herring on his breath.
[QUOTE=trotskygrad;38452654]finland is the only country where internet is a right for everyone[/QUOTE]
wait whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat
anyway, they promised that 24 mb/s would be the national standard by 2014; 2013 is around the corner and i'm still on 1 mb/s
our government lied yet again, the Winter War was an inside job
[QUOTE=Joazzz;38452721]wait whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat
anyway, they promised that 24 mb/s would be the national standard by 2014; 2013 is around the corner and i'm still on 1 mb/s
our government lied yet again, the Winter War was an inside job[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10461048[/url]
I've always liked Sweden :)
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