2008 Presidential Election.
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| Rexperience Bleeding on the Floor  Age: 32 Gender: Male Posts: 1052 | |
| sparklinggrey Jazz Hands  Age: 34 Gender: Male Posts: 327 | Faye Merci: AAAAAHHH! I love you for saying that! I'm not American, and the general perception I think the whole world has is that Americans have NO IDEA what or why they invaded the Middle East. But now I know that Hollywood didn't brainwash all the American citizens... great great post! |
| blow Bleeding on the Floor  Age: - Gender: Female Posts: 1137 | Faye Merci: We're not just attacking them because of oil. That is a factor, (a very big factor) but it's not the only reason. Obama would make a good president. He's very intelligent, and instead of splitting the two parties further apart, he would choose the best people for his cabinet whether they are republican or democratic. The down-side is that he does not have very much political experience. |
| Faye Merci Salute You in Your Grave  Age: - Gender: - Posts: 4473 | Eponine: Oh sorry, and the other ones? Like liberating Iraqis? Operation Iraqi Freedom? What a joke. |
| Rexperience Bleeding on the Floor Age: 32 Gender: Male Posts: 1052 | ^ Again, my thoughts exactly Its like I'm not apart of the disscusion but my opinion is still wonderfully expressed. |
| blow Bleeding on the Floor Age: - Gender: Female Posts: 1137 | Faye Merci: Iraq is number 7 on the list of where the US gets it's oil from. Canada, Mexico, and Saudi Arabia are the top three. Ever heard of 9/11? The terrorist that inhabit Iraq are the main reason that we are over there. The attacked us once and they would do it again. Of course it is masked under the facade of liberating Iraq, once it was found out that the weapons of mass destruction rumored to be there where proved untrue, they had to come up with a good excuse to cover there a**es. And I'm not saying that the war was the right choice, but something did need to be done. And if there was no oil over there I don't think a different decision would have been made, we would still be at war. Anyway this is not the right topic to discuss this in. I'm sorry for getting everything so off topic. |
| Faye Merci Salute You in Your Grave Age: - Gender: - Posts: 4473 | Eponine: Yes actually, I lived through it. We never went to Iraq to actually find WMD's. That was a bullshit excuse the Bush Administration made up to actually get into Iraq. The first bush got us into Afghanistan, the second got us into Iraq. It was the perfect set-up to get us into a country that had what we needed. Oil. Those triumphant videos of Saddam Hussein's statue being torn down? The people doing it were hired Kurds, not Iraqis. The Iraqi money they were burning in a symbol of thanks to their new American liberators? It was Kurdish money. It didn't matter to them anyways. The whole thing was a sham. A set-up. It always had ulterior motives. and yes, this was off topic. |
| blow Bleeding on the Floor Age: - Gender: Female Posts: 1137 | Faye Merci: Kurds live in Iraq too. And I like that you completely ignored the fact that America does not get the majority of its oil from Iraq. And even though we are at war in Iraq they still sell us their oil. I really need to stop replying to you... any who Presidential Election 2008. The black man with the new ideas or the old, war, windbag? |
| samantha connolly In The Murder Scene  Age: 32 Gender: Female Posts: 24519 | Guys, guys, we got some pretty cool threads about the ideas you're arguing on. Take it to one of 'em if you want to continue, you're both really intelligent and I really like the debate. |
| a day to remember. Thinking Happy Thoughts  Age: 29 Gender: Male Posts: 426 | If I had a vote, my vote would go for Obama, because we need someone with progressive thinking to help us fix the mess made over the last 8 years. I'm not saying McCain is a paticularly bad canidate, but for this 2008 Presidential election, the conservative policies just won't work. It's just like Hoover in the 1930's. The conservative ideal was to sit around and do nothing, and the economy was still rock bottom, until FDR stepped in and intervened, and made the New Deals which helped get America get out of depression. America is in a time of crisis now. If we don't choose the right president, we might fall into another Great Depression (Or a nuclear war :/). |
| Heybaberiba Fabulous Killjoy  Age: 46 Gender: Female Posts: 131 | I don't get it. Why could an american president not be muslim? Its kinda the same god. |
| icyblues Motor Baby  Age: 30 Gender: Female Posts: 823 | I like Obama, he has our country's best interests at heart. |
| questionable content Always Born a Crime  Age: 28 Gender: Female Posts: 5604 | Heybaberiba: We've only ever had Christian presidents (and even in that, only one Catholic president), and I think there are a lot of stereotypes surrounding Islam, partly because the "terrorists" are Muslim. I don't think the US is going to be as accepting of people of other religions, if such a big deal is made because Obama is black or Hilary is a woman. Not to mention that the US is religious country. But I think it's important to remember that a small group of extremists DO NOT define a religion, just like the Westboro Baptist Church does not define Christianity. And by the way, Barack isn't a Muslim, he's a Christian. |
| blow Bleeding on the Floor Age: - Gender: Female Posts: 1137 | I think people got that idea because his middle name is Hussein. Which I think means 'good; small handsome one' samantha connolly: Sorry about that. It's over now. |
| blow Bleeding on the Floor Age: - Gender: Female Posts: 1137 | Just thought I'd post this nugget of hilarity. So is Obama talking down to black people? |
| SavvyTheEntertainer Killjoy  Age: 31 Gender: Female Posts: 76 | OBAMA '08. seriously. mccain is gonna sit on his ass and not do shit! He's like mini bush but with better ideas about the enviroment. And everyone knows bush is HORRIBLE and has done nothing but put this country through shit because of this never ending pointless war. It shouldnt even be a question who to vote for, unless your going independent in which case whats the point of voting at all? that just means that your vote isnt going to count in determining which of the two main candidates is going to be president. |
| blow Bleeding on the Floor Age: - Gender: Female Posts: 1137 | SavvyTheEntertainer: I wouldn't say the war is pointless, it has a point, to fight terrorism. How good of a job it's doing? Well there's a whole other discussion thread about that. What Bush really did was put our economy in the shitter. (excuse my language please) Voting independently shouldn't be considered throwing your vote away. It's ridiculous that this country is basically stuck with the two parties and there's not another choice. That should definitely change. |
| Battery Diamond Bleeding on the Floor  Age: 36 Gender: Female Posts: 1380 | Well, The DNC starts tomorrow and I'm so exicited about that. (I'm a Democrat). So we now have our official Democratic Team Obama/Biden. Plus this is my first year to vote. So is anyone else watching the DNC? |
| demolitionloversmway Thinking Happy Thoughts  Age: - Gender: Female Posts: 562 | one word obama |
| John St. John Shotgun Sinner  Age: 31 Gender: Male Posts: 7145 | demolitionloversmway: Thanks for contributing to this discussion  |
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