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I did an initial poll over a year and a half ago to see which candidates you wanted to run in the presidental election now that we will have all of our nominees in stone [McCain and Palin are still classified as presumptive until this Thursday night at the closing of the GOP convention] but given Barack Obama and John McCain, who would you rather lead the United States in a time when the American economy is rather stagnant and so much controversy surrounds the War on Terror including two U.S. wars right now in Afghanistan and Iraq. Select the candidate you feel is best suited to lead the U.S.A. for at least the next four years. Even if you are not an American, feel free to participate in this poll.
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Why don't u add a Ron Paul/Jesse Ventura fantasy option..or maybe not..I bet there's alot of independants who would vote that and take alot away from the current options.
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Obama/Biden, and I'd be going against the grain with my family (at least my dad's side), who are all very Republican. It's time for a change.
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Obama only works with a congress that is on his side, and after the past 2 years of a no-show from the 06' elections..they may be changing again...so if you really want him to win and follow through with his "promises" make sure the congressional side sees eye to eye.
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It's only been no-showing because they're a majority Democrat Congress being consistently stonewalled by a Republican administration. Typically, Congress is only able to get things done if they see eye to eye with the President, and that usually only happens if the President and Congress are of the same party.
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I ain't American so I think my vote is ineligible. I just voted McCain because I don't like Obama. Interested into seeing what Obama does with the country "WHEN" he wins the ellection.
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Let's hope there's no major wars in the next 4 1/2 months that enables W to enact the little phrase in the patriot act that says he can suspend the elections..go look it up.
quote:Originally posted by Wrinklesguy: Let's hope there's no major wars in the next 4 1/2 months that enables W to enact the little phrase in the patriot act that says he can suspend the elections..go look it up.
If that happens, me and you, wrinklesguy, have a responsibility to lead the Revolution against him.
Seriously, if something like that ever happened in the U.S., there would be insurrection.
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The longer explanation that I promised in another thread:
The Ancient Greeks used to vote in the negative, in other words, a vote was cast against a candidate. The one with the most votes lost. Mindful of this when I registered to vote at age 18, oh so long ago, I promised myself that I would always vote FOR a candidate. Many elections later, I now appreciate the wisdom in the old Greek approach and, once again, face having to select from among the "least-worst".
I realize that the bulk of folks here are younger than I am. I fully recall and understand the fervent desire to put someone new, vibrant, and fresh into the Oval Office. Sadly, the candidate who seems to offer that is doing nothing of the sort; instead, he is suggesting the same old hackneyed ideas attempted by the European democracies after WWII as they moved toward more Socialist policies. These are policies from which those countries are now moving away, realizing that they have been antithetical to everything which they intended to achieve.
Well, you may wish to label me a stick-in-the-mud because I seem to be opposed to "Hope and Change". I have to ask, "Hope for what?" and "Change FROM what, TO what?"
I have avoided this Political Section here as this is a place where I could go on and on and on so I will conclude as briefly as I can and hope that I will motivate the readers to give some serious thought to what I have asked.
I will have to vote for McCain...but there once were so many good choices.
If there is a next installment to this rant it will be about "The Constitution".
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Well, one of our so called "socialist" ideas (universal health care) works pretty well over here in Europe/Germany. I can get the best medical treatment almost for free.
I just want to say, "I was doing this etc etc" on the day the 1st black president was voted in/Assasinated etc
Also from the coverage I hear over here in sunny scotland :S Republicans appear to be deeply influenced by christianity; I think religion is a dodgy thing to have in politics.
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