Obama vs. McCain (Page 12 of 13)

america voted for Bush and now they question Obama's leading skills?

i think it canceled out 30% of the votes for mccain cause he's white

it's simple, you just gotta be a retard to have voted for mccain

you know, sleek, what really hit me the other day? all of a sudden, ever since obama's presidency is official i don't hear anybody trash talking the states anymore. people are really relieved to a point where i fear they will be too easily disappointed if obama doesn't live up to their expectation. BUT recent history has taught us that the rest of the world will put up with more shit from a democrat in the white house (see clinton) just because he doesn't come across like bush (junior and senior) or reagan. the main problem these republicans have is very much connected to who they have standing behind them. bush jr. pushed the limit as to who's advising him etc. the hardest so far IMHO.

to boil it down for you: your government is your signboard. no wonder everybody was trash talking the states during the last >6 years. people often don't realize that the government of a country does not reflect the entirety of its population.

mind you, i've been bashing america too some time ago but only to realize that what i'm actually bashing is some extreme (stereo)types which are, of course, picked out and conveyed by the media. it's easy to fall in that trap and the bush administration didn't exactly help either.

maybe not questioning or bashing is the most scary part, the world almost sees him as the new savior.. but just look at his 'team' behind him; no 'change' at all, maybe even worse... Now they can do whatever they like because everyone is backing him, even the Islamic world.

Yes. It usually does haha.

And it seems to have happened that way here in California or close to that for our proposition 8 on gay marriage and has sparked up

some big protest rallies in LA or at least the media makes it out to be big having their first 15 minutes of their hour long

programming about the protests.

you guys don't get tasered in paris for asking questions to president candidates?

i have to admit that the yes on prop 8 really surprised me (negatively). i thought if anywhere it would get turned down in california.

guess i'll blame it on the large hispanic population whose religious macho world doesn't allow for same sex marriage. and the rest of the religious pack. this has got to be one of the issues where radical islamists and christian fundamentalists agree 100%. incidentally they have more in common than they'd ever admit.

Well put!

Oh there's plenty of trash talking...it's just coming from within.

Yeah, I was bummed about that too. It's should have never even been on the ballot, they've been able to marry for 2 years in Cali, and the state didn't fall into damnation. It's already at the state supreme court, but what a waste of resources in a time of dire economic need. The religious folk need to spend more time and money worrying about the poor, and less time worrying about the gays.

that's because you take his teachings to your heart. see, i was raised catholic but alienated by the church somewhere along the way. deep inside i still try to live up to the moral standards that i was taught. which is first and foremost a very strong altruism. even if thy neighbour is gay. live and let live. a lot of so called christians seem to have forgotten about this very essential dictum of their faith.

i'm not a believer anymore but i think there's moral standards in the words of jesus (if he ever lived, whatever is left of his teaching after centuries of copying, interpretation and censorship) which are essential to how we interact with each other every day.

but i'm going waaaay off topic