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Why Obama is better
Published on September 8, 2008 By Calor In Democrat

For the last 8 years we've seen a President brings new meaning to the term croneyism. Bush may not be an evil man but he's going to go down in history as one of the most inept Presidents of all time.

The complaint about Obama's experience is largely irrelevant. Obama has what it takes to lead this nation. We don't need an administrator, we need a leader and between McCain and Obama the choice is clear. 

McCain's choice of Palin highlights McCain's lack of a consistent vision. Is he a "maverick" or is he just another right wing politician looking to satisify the usual Republican constituents?

Our country has real problems that need to be dealt with and McCain and Palin have no workable answers.

Our health care is a mess. The only ones getting rich off it are insurance companies. There is so much redundancy and inefficiency because of our partially public, partially private health care system that we pay far more for inferior treatment. We can't afford to go back to the days before we had Medicare and Medicaid. These programs work and can be expanded to cover more and more people. Obama is the leader we need to make this happen.

We have no energy policy. The Republican answer is to "drill drill drill". Drilling is a waste of time and money. We have an opportunity to let the market choose a better solution for Americans and for our planet. Sure, wind and solar aren't currently enough on their own. But that won't be a problem in the long run.  When Eisenhower supported an interstate high way system, I don't hear Republicans complain about that. Why not have the government get out in front in getting tidal generators going, wind farms put in, and creating regulations that require commercial builders to install solar paneling on the top of buildings? Combine that with electric and hybrid cars and we could do far more than we ever could than drilling. Obama is the leader who sees this and will take us to this new frontier.

Our economy is a mess. Unemployment is above 6%. Why is that? Because the Republicans in congress and their President threw away a huge surplus with their spending spree and tax cuts that mostly went to the wealthiest Americans. Now the government competes with the private sector for loans to pay for these deficits with more and more coming from China which allows them to outcompete American companies and results in loss jobs. Obama is the leader who will bring us back to pay as you go.

Our foreign policy is a mess. Iran is working on a nuclear program because, thanks to Bush, they know the only way to ensure that we don't invade them is to have a deterrent. Bush showed the world that the USA will invade anybody it doesn't like if they have sufficient natural resources to plunder. Obama is the leader who will restore trust in American world leadership.


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on Sep 11, 2008

Borack H. Obama

Borack?  Is that his brother from Kazakhstan? 

on Sep 11, 2008

How Borack came to be president:

 

Borack (driving): Look, there is a woman in a car! Can we follow her and maybe make a sexy time with her?

Biden (Driving instructor): No, no, no, no, no, no!

Borack: A-why not?

Biden: Because a woman has the right to choose who she has sex with.

Borack: What...?! You joke?

Biden: That's good, huh?

Borack: ....Is not good for me.

Borack: Woman can have abortion and baby is no problem!

Biden: But sometimes the babies survive abortion

Borack: No problem! In Khazakstan, we throw baby in bin!

Biden: Borack, i'm gonna make you president!

 

This is where I miss the tongue-in-cheek smiley

on Sep 11, 2008

Cedarbird

Daiwa I was thinking that very thought.
As was I.  This is off-topic, I know, but if you look at it, Hitler was a great leader too.  He was also an evil, evil man.  But the guy had charisma out the ying-yang, and could bring "his people" (the nazi) together like nobody's business.
I think Obama has a lot of good characteristics, but just because he can get people to follow him around chanting doesn't make him a leader; just as McCain's history as a prisoner of war, while it's admirable that he withstood it etc, doesn't make him fit to be president.
Plegh.

Actually, I tend to disagree with you with Hitler being a great leader.  Yes, the Nazis party got Germany out of the depression (the Nazi Party was around way before Hitler became the head).  Hitler surrounded himself with brilliant people who were in the party already.  In Mein Kampf, he outlined clearly what he was going to do.  Now, the man knew that he had to save Germany in order to get the Germanys to do what ever he wanted them to do.  A lot of Germany policies concerning social economic mirrored what the U.S was doing and vice versa.

Plus, a lot of people in charge back then were bumbling shmucks (ala Chamberlain).  If Hitler was a great leader, he would have listened to his greatest/smartest general more often 'the desert fox', Erwin Rommel. 

Oh yeah, some ninny cough on the previous page said that experience doesn't matter for the Presidency.  For upper level management jobs, most REQUIRE previous ON THE JOB experience or related job experience. 

Now for the President, I would want someone that has:

PROVEN experience in recommended field: politics

preferrable:  at least 8 years of experience in that field or 12 years in a similar field

education: preferrable b.s or b.a in political science or a b.s or b.a in a similar field.

Essentially, when I hire someone I want someone who can not only talk the walk but ALSO who walk the talk. 

Some previous experience is very needed for Presidency hence why the founding fathers set the age where they set it.  They felt that BY that age someone should have had enough experience in Politics or minimumally successfully guiding an extremely large coglomerate of people.

on Sep 11, 2008

This is where I miss the tongue-in-cheek smiley

That one needs no graphics.

on Sep 11, 2008

p.s. Is this article a joke?

p.p.s. what about China and India's climate control? Why do those countries never get to confirm?  They have 3x our population?

p.p.p.s Obviously Iran just recently decided to try and get nukes as well as North Korea.   Neither country was trying to get them before because we know that they've been superpowers for the last couple of centuries. Its not like they haven't tried to push us around ever.  Oh yeah, before the last 8 years we were bed buddies with North Korea and Iran.  giggidy, giggidy, gig-gi-dy!

p.p.p.p.s  Obviously what happened on this date was caused by the right-wing conservatives.  Take out a building or three and you'll give people jobs.

p.p.p.p.p.s We all know that Bush and the republicians caused the hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes, tsunami, Anna Nicole Smith, 80s music, CokeII/Crystal Pepsi, LA CHOY (most people don't know this but in every can there is a WMD hidden inside)

 

on Sep 11, 2008

LA CHOY (most people don't know this but in every can there is a WMD hidden inside)

I thought that was Cracker Jacks.

on Sep 11, 2008

the_Peoples_Party
Plus, a lot of people in charge back then were bumbling shmucks (ala Chamberlain).  If Hitler was a great leader, he would have listened to his greatest/smartest general more often 'the desert fox', Erwin Rommel.

You are correct about Hitler, he was a maniacal weirdo who kept power because he pretty much allowed the second-tier to rule the day-to-day things which kept them pacified and fighting amongst themselves (his attempts to meddle in the battlefield were disasterous 100% of the time). However, as an historian I have to protest strongly at the image of Chamberlain as a 'schmuk.' Chamberlain's appeasement was done, not because he was indecisive or weak-willed, but with an undercurrent of sympathy for Germany's plight (which America's Wilson opposed in 1919, however Britain was undecided which allowed France to dictate harsh terms, but not harsh enough to cripple the nation) and smart foreign policy. What would Britain care if the revived Germany began taking back the Polish corridor, the German-speaking Sudetenland (and a bit extra)? Every time Hitler assured him that it was mereley Germany repossesing the German people, who had been scattered by the 'victorious' nations in 1919. It suited Chamberlain to believe him. Britain was nowhere near ready for war and every day would make Britain more organised, if not close the gap. Even a couple of years into the war Britain was unable to compete with Germany. They were defeated on the mainland and only spies managed to sabotage an invasion plan which would have seen Britain conquered almost as quickly as the Dutch (4 days).

Furthermore, Chamberlain didn't believe in 'peace in our time' as is popularly misquoted, he mentioned 'peace for our time' and quickly told the Commons not to pay attention to that - he had no illusions that Hitler would stick to his word. And let's face it, Chamberlain's wish to avoid war at the time, for whatever reason, was right. Don't forget the Nazis weren't the evil empire at the time. All the average foreign leader knew about at the time was that they liked flags and fascist marches, the holocaust was completely unknown (even in 1945, the detention camps were known about but the discovery of concentration camps shocked American-lead invasion forces) and fascism really isn't an unusual concept - as much as people might pretend these days (just look at Polish football fans). 50 million or more lives were lost, thanks to the caution Chamberlain instilled in British military maneuvers, very few were British (until they idiotically walked into a David-Goliath campaign, resulting in Dunkerque's mass-slaughter and loss of expensive equipment).

on Sep 17, 2008

Obama is a candidate that believes in abortion of babies. Free choice, he calls it. Why does he not call it free death to the baby? Joe Biden does not believe in abortion of babies. Joe is a Catholic. Unless Joe is a Catholic in name only? That makes him a hypocrite, if he does not stand up to Obama.  But Joe only will hold the number two position. While Obama holds the number one position. Number one supercedes number two any day of the week in that matter or any other matter. So what is Joe doing about it? You guessed it. Being a hypocrite. While Obama tell you what you want to hear. Joe is waiting to see if Obama wins. So joe can be vice president, no matter what. Even while being a hypocrite. Obama is promises and more promises. With little or nothing to show for it. Get real. Talk is cheap and free. Go by what they do. Not by what they say. How can you tell others what to do, when you don't what to do yourself? Maybe he'll get advisers like George W. Bush to tell him what to do.He already has some 300 advisers . How many more does he want? Oh I forgot he is green and unexperience. But a lot can be expected from an unexperience person. That is a lot of mistakes. You ain't seen nothing yet.

on Sep 17, 2008

Obama is a candidate that believes in abortion of babies. Free choice, he calls it.

Defenders of Slavery back when it was legal defined it as "free choice" too.

on Sep 22, 2008

Being shot down from an airplane and being a prisoner of war of the viet cong does not qualify someone to be president of the USA. True, it only tells the person's character. But never being shot down from an airplane or being a prisoner of war and dodging military service is even more truthful that does not qualify for that person to be president of the USA. It also tells about a person's character. And having double duel citizenship, not wanting his patriotism questioned, taking 20 years to know his preacher, etc. are also not qualifications for being president.

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