USA Elections

[Ian]

I see Mr Obama has been re-elected.

[cosworth151]

Yes, and I'm proud to say that it was my home state of Ohio that put him over the line, at about 23:15 EST last night. It was far earlier in the evening than any of us expected.

[Jericoke]

I don't want to start too big a non-F1 fight here...

While Obama aligns with my view of the world better than Romney does... Obama never came to visit.  Some neighbour!

At least Romney has a house in Canada (the one that he famously drove to with a dog on the roof of his car...), and we could count on him to at least consider us from time to time.

[Ian]

Why not Jeri ? I don't mind starting a big non-F1 anti EU fight here(although Wiz might not like a political fight here.)

[David]

Gotta be the right result for the US! 

Mitt seemed like a t*t.

[Dare]

Gotta be the right result for the US! 

Mitt seemed like a t*t.

With a population of over 300 million you'd think we
could have had better candidates.

Hope his 2nd term accomplishes more than the first.

[Jericoke]

Gotta be the right result for the US! 

Mitt seemed like a t*t.

With a population of over 300 million you'd think we
could have had better candidates.

Hope his 2nd term accomplishes more than the first.

That's half the problem... in this day and age, you wouldn't get the same men that have graced the Oval Office in the past.

FDR went to great lengths to hide is wheelchair.  Kennedy hid his health issues.  Abraham Lincoln suffered a nervous breakdown.   

Truman sold hats in his last 'real job' before entering civil service.

Guys like Ike, Teddy, Grant and Washington would probably tarred as war criminals.

These days, the only people who become president are people who are 'squeaky clean', and yet filled with ambition.  Of those people, how many are going to be a 'good' president?

[John S]

Gotta be the right result for the US! 

Mitt seemed like a t*t.

With a population of over 300 million you'd think we
could have had better candidates.

Hope his 2nd term accomplishes more than the first.

And you'd think with a population that size you'd get a choice from more than just two.  

[lkjohnson1950]

The Republican Party is still suffering from Tea Party Syndrome. The far right votes heavily in the primaries, so the candidates have to pass ultra conservative litmus tests. The mass of mainstream voters are not that conservative and are not especially happy with that kind of candidate, so they go Democratic instead. Mitt tried to move toward the center, but couldn't get back far enough. I wonder sometimes if Eisenhower or even Goldwater could get the nomination today.

[F1fanaticBD]

I don't want to start too big a non-F1 fight here...

While Obama aligns with my view of the world better than Romney does... Obama never came to visit.  Some neighbour!

At least Romney has a house in Canada (the one that he famously drove to with a dog on the roof of his car...), and we could count on him to at least consider us from time to time.

 

[cosworth151]

When the President took office four years ago, he inherited the worst economy since the Great Depression plus two wars. He's has to fight the worst congress in history. The Republicans had more filibusters in two years than both parties did in the two decades of the fifties and sixties. All in all, he hasn't done too badly with what he had to work with.

[Scott]

As I see it, there are two big problems with American politics.  There is less and less middle ground (the left is leaning more left and the right is leaning more right).  There is no room for compromise. 

The second problem is actually only one man.  His name is Grover Norquist.  This man has come up with perhaps the most brilliant and apparently legal form of blackmail that exists.  He has written something called the Taxpayer Protection Pledge and blackmailed (yes literally) successfully 95% of current Republican Congressmen among many others (Governors and even most of the Republican Presidential hopefuls from this past election).  The pledge is to NEVER increase personal or corporate income taxes.  If any elected Republican that he approaches to sign his little pledge refuse to do so, his very well funded 'non-profit' entity targets that candidate in the next election with massive funding and does whatever it takes to have them replaced.  If you have candidates or representatives in the Republican party who are so terrified by this guy and his organization to vote their own beliefs, then there will never be any chance of compromise, especially in financially troubled times as these.  This guy is a cancer to good government.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Norquist


There was a great show on NPR (thankfully it will continue now with Obama) the other day about a grass roots group of Republicans and Democrats called 'Retake the Center', filled with moderate Republicans and Democrats who just want to move the country forward and do that with compromise.  Something to hope for.

[Dare]

another worry,who own's are debt


not so funny tv ad   

[cosworth151]

Not very accurate, either. Empires such as Rome fell when they were taken over by a small group of elitists interested only in enriching themselves. That's exactly what far right groups like the one who produced the ad want. In Rome, they were known as the Publicans. Sounds eerily familiar.

Also, the largest part of our debt to China is from people going to WalMart and buying Chinese crap instead of going to a reputable merchant and buying American made goods.

[Scott]

another worry,who own's are debt
not so funny tv ad   

Not really.  If the Chinese call in the debt, the US economy is easily strong enough for the govt to tell them to stuff it.  Far more worrying is, like Canada seems poised to do, you let the Chinese buy up a ton of the country's infrastructure.  Then, they would truly have control of the economy.  All they would own off the US is a bunch of bad IOU's.