Ohioans don't like getting voting advice from Brits!

Recently the Guardian paired British letter writers with voters in Clark County, Ohio, asking them to vote for John Kerry. Some good 'mericans didn't cotton too well to getting political advice from Brits. Here are some of the rude letters back to the UK...and the "world hates us for our freedoms"!

But first, here are some letters written TO Ohio:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1332255,00.html"

Here are some letters written back to the Brits by Americans and they aren't pretty:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1332041,00.html

Dear wonderful, loving friends from abroad,

We Ohioans are an ornery sort and don't take meddling well, even if it comes from people we admire and with their sincere goodwill. We are a fairly closed community overall. In my town of Springfield, I feel that there are some that consider people from the nearby cities of Columbus or Dayton, as "foreigners" - let alone someone from outside our country.


Have you not noticed that Americans don't give two shits what Europeans think of us? Each email someone gets from some arrogant Brit telling us why to NOT vote for George Bush is going to backfire, you stupid, yellow-toothed pansies ... I don't give a rat's ass if our election is going to have an effect on your worthless little life. I really don't. If you want to have a meaningful election in your crappy little island full of shitty food and yellow teeth, then maybe you should try not to sell your sovereignty out to Brussels and Berlin, dipshit. Oh, yeah - and brush your goddamned teeth, you filthy animals.


Consider this: stay out of American electoral politics. Unless you would like a company of US Navy Seals - Republican to a man - to descend upon the offices of the Guardian, bag the lot of you, and transport you to Guantanamo Bay, where you can share quarters with some lonely Taliban shepherd boys.


KEEP YOUR FUCKIN' LIMEY HANDS OFF OUR ELECTION. HEY, SHITHEADS, REMEMBER THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR? REMEMBER THE WAR OF 1812? WE DIDN'T WANT YOU, OR YOUR POLITICS HERE, THAT'S WHY WE KICKED YOUR ASSES OUT. FOR THE 47% OF YOU WHO DON'T WANT PRESIDENT BUSH, I SAY THIS ... TOUGH SHIT!

PROUD AMERICAN VOTING FOR BUSH!


Real Americans aren't interested in your pansy-ass, tea-sipping opinions. If you want to save the world, begin with your own worthless corner of it!


Please remember, too, that I am merely an American. That means I am not very bright. It means I have no culture or sense of history. It also means that I am barely literate, so please don't use big, fancy words.


Hey England, Scotland and Wales,
Mind your own business. We don't need weenie-spined Limeys meddling in our presidental election. If it wasn't for America, you'd all be speaking German. And if America would have had a president, then, of the likes of Kerry, you'd all be goose-stepping around Buckingham Palace. YOU ARE NOT WANTED!! BUTT OUT!!!

...necessarily from Ohioans. In fact, I bet most of them came from Freeperland and that OH are probably pretty moved by the notion that their decisions have international ramifications.

I should have added that. Two of the letters above are from Texas, the guy obsessing about bad teeth is from Wading River, New York, and one from Knoxville, Iowa. Many just have U.S.A. as an address.

These are only a few from many a friend of mine in the U.K. e-mailed to me. I couldn't find a link on the Internet. Not all were negative, some were positive and good mannered (probably from those already in the Kerry camp). Yeah, I smelled Freeperville in many of them.

I enjoyed this letter from Dayton, Ohio, which probably says it all:

Dear British friends,

I think you have an interesting idea to encourage international grassroots efforts, but I sincerely doubt most Springfielders are going to be influenced by letters from a country they probably can't even point to on a map. I wish you luck with your campaign, but I warn you that you're not likely to accomplish much.

Love that "can't find on the map" which reflects the knowledge of our pResident who had to go to war in order to learn geography.

They really do not disquise themselves very well:)

Those letters make me SO embarrassed that these people are American. It's one thing to disagree- Quite another to spew this garbage. No wonder the Brits think we're morons- This is the side of us they see most often. So embarrassing. Why can't we deport these idiots??

I think it is so amazing that people from another country care so much about this election that they take the time to write a well-thought out and personal letter to an Ohio voter. Some of those letters were beautiful.

Its such a shame that some of these letter-writers had to get a profanity-laced, illogical, and insulting diatribe in return. I don't know how the freepers can sleep at night.

"If it wasn't for America, you'd all be speaking German. And if America would have had a president, then, of the likes of Kerry, you'd all be goose-stepping around Buckingham Palace."

haha

we DID have a president like Kerry then. hahaha

I wonder what the Britons' responses would have been had we been writing them and telling them who to vote for.

...people at Freerepublic who read about this who got offeneded because they know how effective it is.

God help us. Any god will do as long as he/she/it will wave their magic wands across the the minds of these morons. If that fails to enlighten them, then perhaps they could be transported back to a time where they could be more comfortable. I'm thinking it's a cro-magnon era.

And if time travel is possible, please sign me up for the future. The present really sucks.