W-VA doesn't need to be kicked out of the union, there just needs to be a law forbidding people to be so stupid and if they fail to obey that law they should be kicked out of the U.S.A.
I personally don't think Obama will win. I don't like McCain, and I don't like Obama. Something about Obama that kinda makes me like ehh, is that he's a great speaker when he has a speech to read, but when he has to answer questions you can barely make out what he's saying. And when you can grasp his ideas about what he's saying, they're basically socialist and communist ideas that have never worked before, and he thinks by some magic that he can make it work. Just how I feel. If I were able to vote, I'm really not sure what I'd do. EDIT: However, I do indeed applaud Obama's perseverance. He's come much further than many people, including myself, thought he would based on his experience.
I agree. I still think she ran a terrible campaign and should be ashamed of some of the things she and her closest supporters said about Obama, and I don't necessarily wish I could take back certain things I said about her, but I'm glad she is now working to unite the party so we can kick some elephant ass in November and for that, she deserves some respect.
And she deserves respect for one hell of a speech if she wrote that. One of the best and most poignant speeches she's ever made. McCain better watch his ass with Hillary and Obama after him.
It's not, and I'm all for unity between the two parties...but when you have a George Bush wannabe running for essentially Bush's third term, drastic measures must be done to prevent any further damage to this country because 8 years of failed Bush policies is more than enough. Nobody understands the need to have a democrat in office more than I, as I am a former Republican gone Democrat for Obama, who supported Bush back in 2004 and even voted for him, only to learn to completely despise him over a period of four years. It is a decision that haunts me, and I promised myself when the new election came about I was gonna make sure I got it RIGHT this time and picked the right guy/woman. I'm pleased to say that I know I did this time around. We need a president like Obama to remind people why America used to be a respected country in the first place.
Yes, it will be about bipartisanship once we have the white house and huge leads in the house and senate
I have no issues with Obama's cabinet being a mix of Republicans and Democrats. I wouldn't even mind him having a Republican Vice President. I think that'd be fantastic actually. We just need to avoid having any people with Bush's mentality working in the White House come 2009. If you sympathize with Bush or agree with some of his bad decisions...then you're out.
It wasn't just Bush though, you have to admit that. As for Republican VP with a Democratic president, it ain't gonna happen. If it does, there's gonna be so much of an uproar that nothing's gonna get done. I just wanna see what happens if, four years down the road, the country's even more fucked up than it is now. That's not to say it will be, it's just a for instance.
I feel the only way to avoid that hypothetical situation you just named, is to elect Obama into office. McCain agreed with Bush on 95% of his decisions last year (documented fact) and Obama opposed the Iraq war from the very start. Observe (from 2002): "Good afternoon. Let me begin by saying that although this has been billed as an anti-war rally, I stand before you as someone who is not opposed to war in all circumstances. The Civil War was one of the bloodiest in history, and yet it was only through the crucible of the sword, the sacrifice of multitudes, that we could begin to perfect this union, and drive the scourge of slavery from our soil. I don’t oppose all wars. My grandfather signed up for a war the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed, fought in Patton’s army. He saw the dead and dying across the fields of Europe; he heard the stories of fellow troops who first entered Auschwitz and Treblinka. He fought in the name of a larger freedom, part of that arsenal of democracy that triumphed over evil, and he did not fight in vain. I don’t oppose all wars. After September 11th, after witnessing the carnage and destruction, the dust and the tears, I supported this Administration’s pledge to hunt down and root out those who would slaughter innocents in the name of intolerance, and I would willingly take up arms myself to prevent such a tragedy from happening again. I don’t oppose all wars. And I know that in this crowd today, there is no shortage of patriots, or of patriotism. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. What I am opposed to is the cynical attempt by Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz and other arm-chair, weekend warriors in this Administration to shove their own ideological agendas down our throats, irrespective of the costs in lives lost and in hardships borne. What I am opposed to is the attempt by political hacks like Karl Rove to distract us from a rise in the uninsured, a rise in the poverty rate, a drop in the median income – to distract us from corporate scandals and a stock market that has just gone through the worst month since the Great Depression. That’s what I’m opposed to. A dumb war. A rash war. A war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics. Now let me be clear – I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. A man who butchers his own people to secure his own power. He has repeatedly defied UN resolutions, thwarted UN inspection teams, developed chemical and biological weapons, and coveted nuclear capacity. He’s a bad guy. The world, and the Iraqi people, would be better off without him. But I also know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors, that the Iraqi economy is in shambles, that the Iraqi military a fraction of its former strength, and that in concert with the international community he can be contained until, in the way of all petty dictators, he falls away into the dustbin of history. I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a US occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences. I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of al-Qaeda. I am not opposed to all wars. I’m opposed to dumb wars. So for those of us who seek a more just and secure world for our children, let us send a clear message to the president today. You want a fight, President Bush? Let’s finish the fight with Bin Laden and al-Qaeda, through effective, coordinated intelligence, and a shutting down of the financial networks that support terrorism, and a homeland security program that involves more than color-coded warnings. You want a fight, President Bush? Let’s fight to make sure that the UN inspectors can do their work, and that we vigorously enforce a non-proliferation treaty, and that former enemies and current allies like Russia safeguard and ultimately eliminate their stores of nuclear material, and that nations like Pakistan and India never use the terrible weapons already in their possession, and that the arms merchants in our own country stop feeding the countless wars that rage across the globe. You want a fight, President Bush? Let’s fight to make sure our so-called allies in the Middle East, the Saudis and the Egyptians, stop oppressing their own people, and suppressing dissent, and tolerating corruption and inequality, and mismanaging their economies so that their youth grow up without education, without prospects, without hope, the ready recruits of terrorist cells. You want a fight, President Bush? Let’s fight to wean ourselves off Middle East oil, through an energy policy that doesn’t simply serve the interests of Exxon and Mobil. Those are the battles that we need to fight. Those are the battles that we willingly join. The battles against ignorance and intolerance， corruption and greed， poverty and despair. The consequences of war are dire, the sacrifices immeasurable. We may have occasion in our lifetime to once again rise up in defense of our freedom, and pay the wages of war. But we ought not – we will not – travel down that hellish path blindly. Nor should we allow those who would march off and pay the ultimate sacrifice, who would prove the full measure of devotion with their blood, to make such an awful sacrifice in vain." Not to mention that because of Obama, the DNC no longer takes donations from lobbyists or special interest PACs which Obama has vowed will not control his White House if he's elected. He vows to change Washington, and by the looks of things he already has started: http://democrats.org/a/2008/06/democratic_part_10.php?comments=1#comments This is why I'm so Obama. Not because McCain is George Bush pt. 3, but because Obama is already starting to deliver on his promises.
Very good point Derek. That's why I 100% support Obama. I was just merely saying a for instance. That pretty much would happen though, if Clinton made it into office, am I right?
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