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ATTN: DesertRat66 (US Political Thread) | by firehawk | 2008-10-21 01:20:01 |
| There had been a thread on Obamas gun-control pos |
by UnFair |
2008-10-21 03:25:03 |
ition some weeks ago, also initiated by DR66, IIRC. In that he was quoted with something like "I will not take away your guns and I know no one can - even if a president would like to - because such an act will never have sufficient support in the congress". That statement (from some rally in a small town, again IIRC) was spinned by some comments in the net to a "I would like to, but unfortunately I will not be able to do so".
The question to me is: Which candidate will do the whole of the tasks of the presidents job generally better for the US (and the world) during the years of his presidency?
Is there a lineup of important issues comparing the candidates positions and their reasoning? (We have something like that here for the different parties where the answers are not given in a shoot-out-manner of a debate, but with time enough on their hands, in writing.)
I see many scenario painted in blogs and such with rigged quotes or no sources at all.
One extreme: The people will keep their guns unrecorded but the economy goes bonkers and people are starving in the streets while the US military is involved in remote areas all over the world and local militia carry out their interpretation of law and order in redneck country and backwood towns.
The other extreme: Guns are registered/banned and the economy gets controlled soviet-like, the poor or illegal immigrants ar quartered in well-to-dos shacks and garden houses while the military parades on every town square.
And many scenarios in between mixed with FUD on things the commenter considers important like religion, prices, (homo-)sexuality, environment, racism, death penalty, surveillance...
Some of the discussions I witnessed (as an outsider from the other side of the pond) give the impression the US americans see the end of their culture coming. As if the election of Obama will install a supressive regime like the one in "Vendetta". Or the election of McCain will subject the US helpless to the bad judgement of an stultified old man who will die soon anyway and let fall everything into the hands of a skillfree woman who uses ghostwritten big phrases without even knowing their meaning. |
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At least then you can wear cool Guy Fawkes masks ( (n/t) | by Arachnid | 2008-10-21 03:37:31 |
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I would. Had I some I would use them already | by UnFair | 2008-10-21 04:31:18 |
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im hoping for a massive collapse | by joecrouse | 2008-10-21 03:37:35 |
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That's exactly what I despise... | by firehawk | 2008-10-21 04:54:22 |
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It's not really that critical who gets to be | by Peace_man | 2008-10-21 08:56:14 |
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Of course not | by DesertRat66 | 2008-10-21 09:05:39 |
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Ummm do you know what an Oligarchy is? | by Classic_Jon | 2008-10-21 09:07:45 |
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He's referring to big business CEOs as the | by firehawk | 2008-10-21 20:20:16 |
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Which one? Neither! | by jsr | 2008-10-21 11:14:35 |
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What are you going to do? | by UnFair | 2008-10-21 12:37:33 |
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Vote third party is an option | by DesertRat66 | 2008-10-21 13:44:41 |
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Ross Perot is still with it? | by UnFair | 2008-10-21 14:01:29 |
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No, but he was in 1992 | by DesertRat66 | 2008-10-21 14:20:50 |
