for starters, i do read the lines.I care about this country's politics for several reasons. Most obviously I live here at the moment so policies very much affect me. So I take an interest in WA state politics and federal politics. Second, as Bjorn said, it's a global world. Third and most importantly, the US's staggering economic, military, scientific, espionage and soft power means that its politics indirectly or directly affect mine, wherever I should live on the globe (as the current economic debacle shows). So I will naturally take a lively interest in its politics while it is a first-rate power.
Yes, I wouldn't vote for Condoleezza, and if Obama was Republican, I wouldn't vote for him. It's still great that Condoleezza is in her post, and it would equally be great if Obama was president, for both politics and race relations.
Policies do not effect you unless your expecting handouts and that, unfortunatly, is what Socialists always have open: thier hands.
it is a global world, indeed it is, but it still doesnt matter to the average American what Euro's or anyone else thinks about who we elect. we elect by our own hearts, heads and desires. just because you are surrounded by Liberals doesnt mean that the rest of the country is in line with your style of thinking.
a majority of the people arent going to vote Democrat because the are Liberal, they will do it for many many other reasons and regardless of thier reasons, 99.9999999999% of them will do it regardless of what the British PM or the Dahli Lama or anyone else outside of our borders thinks of a canadate.
this is my point on the "doesnt matter"issue. not that i dont like to hear your views, but your views and those of others outside of the USA are irrelevent when it comes to public opinion about a canadate.
so, what your saying as far as "what if Obama was a Republican" is that it wouldnt matter if he was black, no doors will be shut, fences mended: whatever in your eyes because he isnt a Democrat.
hmmm.....
Sorry you feel that way. Since you think that Obama would be a better president and seeing how he has no Legislative experiance nor any executive experiance, no foriegn relations experience......wheras Palin only lacks In foriegn relations...wow. low standards.It's pretty simple. The tension between what Palin claims and her voting record is great. Combine that with her stated positions; I think she'd wreck the country. Â
The tension between what Obama claims and how he has voted also exists but is not great. Combine that with his stated positions; I think he'd do the country good.
but hey! the president doesnt need to have all of the aforementioned stuff in his portfolio! just voting on the party line for two years is good enough!
here is the crux. people are acting like is Palin v/s Obama. lol.
it just goes to show how much of a threat she is to Liberals.
.I know some libertarian communists (also called anarcho-communists) who are also set in their ways but would certainly vote Democrat
to put it as simply as i can: they arent Libertarians.
just like a guy i know who is so Conservative he practically bleeds Jesus.
but, like his father before him, he has always voted Democrat because its a family tradition.
) and bully for your mother. i guess when Germany elected thier first female leader, that made them a laughing stock...
Yes, I'm a socialist or social democrat, and proud of it. But I could be wrong, and anyway there's no point in blindly using what to you is a negative label on someone whose political views I clearly described. It's sort of like calling Obama a fascist, which someone else did a few pages ago. That is, I'll defend misrepresentation as much as slurs.
