[kj] Congrats Obama

[The Exorcist]

YAY. WOOOHOO! Join the rest of the world be like everyone else.
Gimme a break. The US should do what's in its best interest for its people.
It's not a fucking popularity contest to get "the world" to love you.
The Gov't is here to protect, secure and defend. Not baby sit.



At 11:24 PM 6/3/2008, B. Oliver Sheppard wrote:

>It's definitely always a strategic matter of voting for the lesser. 

>With Obama the US has a chance to join the rest of the 

>industrialized world and have universal health coverage. McCain 

>wants to privatize it EVEN MORE than it is. Also, the two do have 

>substantial differences over Iraq.

>

>Australia just pulled out of Iraq a couple of days ago.

>

>The US hangs on - just like it hangs on to stuff like the death 

>penalty, privatized for-profit health coverage that leaves 47 

>million uninsured, allowing private bounty hunters to collect on 

>bail (I recently learned this was another unique, Wild West-style 

>Americanism that few other countries utilize -- in the US any yahoo 

>can go take a class for several weeks and then get certified to 

>become a bounty hunter and legally enter peoples' homes, stun them, 

>apprehend them, take them into prison if they miss bail payments).

>

>Also, I think with Obama at the masthead the world might like the US 

>an iota better than McCain, who voted with Bush 95% of the time last 

>year. Int'l goodwill would bode well for terrorist type threats, as 

>in making them less likely.

>

>I'll be voting for Obama, but I'll be holding my nose, sure. Even 

>McCain would be better than Bush, but Obama would actually be 

>several shades even better than that.

>

>-Oliver

>

>

>

>T.B. wrote:

>>IMO, all three (well, now two) major candidates (Clinton, Obama and 

>>McCain) are equally terrible choices, each with plenty of negatives 

>>and few positives.  In Obama's case, he's basically a snake oil 

>>salesman peddling "change" to plenty of po-faced wide eyed people 

>>but he really has little substance behind his rhetoric.

>>

>>

>

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