They just showed the people in 小浜市 going crazy for Obama on CNN :-)
The world seems pretty happy after our brain farts the last two elections.

It weren't all victories. Some very bad stuff got passed as well here in FL.

samesong wrote:

Those of you outside of the US, how are you following the election? I'm in good ol' Jay-pan (as my relatives from Alabama would call it), so I'm just constantly refreshing Google News

I know that there is some Obama-guy and some other guy..
That's pretty much all I know about the US elections..
I'm not really interested in politics. Probably that's why the most I know about the politicians is what I hear about their screw ups and scandals in the news.. They should be people of integrity but still certain people give heaps of reasons to doubt their overall moral with the way they act.
This is only for my own country though. I don't know anything about the politics of any foreign countries!

Hmm.. Obama sounds like a funny name..

But hey! Let me know who won! Okay! ^^/
Hope it's someone of whom we don't have to be glad of getting rid of in the next elections!


I'm off to sleep!
I shouldn't try to post off-topic messages to political threads in the middle of the night..
This is the outcome!

Last edited by alantin (2008 November 05, 4:29 pm)

I really can't stand how Prop 8 passed in California... I've always seen Californians as the... how do you say it... openminded and modern people of America, not saying such people aren't present in other parts of the US... but I really can't understand how the Californians I respected so much could be so... uncivilized.

"I'm not really interested in politics. Probably that's why the most I know about the politicians is what I hear about their screw ups and scandals in the news.. They should be people of integrity but still certain people give heaps of reasons to doubt their overall moral with the way they act."


I don't think political figures are any more corrupt than the average person.  Their lives are put up to a microscope.  How many people are there that don't have skeletons in their closet or that could withstand public scrutiny.  If people looked at my past...well, there is no way I could win office!

Last edited by bodhisamaya (2008 November 05, 7:13 pm)

Though highly unpopular as a direct result of it, I thought Jimmy Carter was someone who cared more about the public good than personal ambition.

It isn't that strange after all. Probably their plans include "Terminating" any non-heterosexual lifeform...

Last edited by Transtic (2008 November 05, 9:31 pm)

Democracy only works if the public educates themselves.  Otherwise our political system is run by money not "the people".  People are just too lazy to look at the facts and so are easily misled by their emotions. 

Ten years ago Hawaii tried to become the first state to legalize same sex marriage.  Everyone in Hawaii is a minority which makes us very tolerant I think.  Before the media blitz started it had almost a 70% approval among the voters.  Then the Mormans came in and spent $1 million on TV ads portaying gays as child molestors.  That was a huge amount of money back then in a small market.  It was voted down by an overwhelming margin. 

Ron Paul on the right and Dennis Kuccinich on the left are both over the top as far as integrity goes but neither will ever succeed in their presidential bids because they can not be bought by special interests.