José

how did everyone yell at bush for going into this war and continuing but now that obama is sending more troops no one cares???

what will the next president have to bring to the US that the current president doesn't?

Does anyone realize how unfair presidential elections are? Where the fuck did Obama come from anyways? Who the fuck decided to make him president anyways(put him in the running)?


Is it just me or is it obvious that the public is no longer in control of the government like the old days?

Ego Tripping

Truth be told, the presidency will really change when election reform takes place and lobbyist are no longer a major player in terms of the presidential race.

Otherwise, Obama marked a major shift in the US and time will reveal (I believe) how drastic that shift has been. Some will love it, some will hate it. No matter what, he's the beginning of something and the end of something else.

I personally feel the next president will be Obama (2nd term) but after that, a 3rd party of some kind will finally take office. Obama is paving the way for an independent party to finally rise to the surface. He's not quite Democratic nor Republican and that's how he really snagged the election. Not sure if he will do the same next time, it all depends on the next three years. It might even be in the next election, but I strongly feel Obama will serve two terms and will open the office to a party that is neither Democratic or Republican...for the first time in a very long time. But that's just me.

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Mydriasis

Who is looking forward to WWIII?

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verklingen

^ not our next president and that's pretty much all i can say on this for sure

but to answer your question, i think those who have the most invested in maintaining the status quo have been looking forward to wwIII since the beginnings of the cold war. wars have not only been an indespensible source of profit, but also a good means of consolidating financial and political control over entire societies. if you ask me the efforts in iraq and afghanistan -- both of which have been abysmal failures -- are the final manifestations of this paradigm that has been flailing in its death throes since the fall of the soviet union.

in all the time since wwII, wwIII has never been so remarkably absent from the future horizon as it is today. it exists only in the wet dreams of the rich and powerful and as a nagging hunch/fear in the minds of those who can sense the coming shift and decide to perceive it negatively. i can't blame those people because i myself once took part in it. it's understandable that with a history such as ours, the sense of something "big" coming would entail some atrocity or other with which we are all too familiar.

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Mydriasis

Your "changior" is the one shipping troops out and bowing to other leaders of countries. America was founded so we'd never have to do that shit ever again.

Obama is a pussy and other countries have never seen us this week.

As for the next president, I guess it's whoever can be lobbied for. Verk people vote with their pockets, and the economy got FUCKED right before the elections and Obama talked about free-health-care etc, change, no more war. So the middle voters(not dem or repub but a mix) got swayed.

How did hitler get elected ?

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verklingen

so because obama bows to foreign leaders you think we're headed toward wwiii?

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kamikazi89

beggars can't be choosers

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