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Barack Obama Retains US Presidency
Fox News, NBC, and CNN have called the U.S. election for incumbent Barack Obama. Of the so-called 'battleground states,' Obama carried Ohio, Iowa, Wisconsin, and New Hampshire, which, along with all of the solidly Democrat-leaning states, was enough to push him beyond the 270 required for victory. You can check this chart to see the full list of states that have currently been called, and by which news networks. The NY Times has an excellent interactive map showing all election results updated in real time, as does CNN. It's currently projected that the Republicans will retain control of the House of Representatives, and the Democrats will retain control of the Senate.
Good. Gridlock keeps them from fucking it up more than they already have. Obama had two years of majority support and look where that got us. Too bad the Senate is leaning more Blue than Red... because I'd rather see filibusters and tabling of bills than any more legislation from the entire lot of these bums.
It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man.
I really hope so, but not to make Obama look bad. They should obstruct his "agenda" because it is the wrong direction for the country.
Like LBJ in Vietnam?
Well played. Your assertion of something which happened in a presidency 40+ years ago clearly refutes all points. Both sides are the same! Vote Republican!
Not buying it. Bush completely ignored constitutional protections. Bush started killing people in other countries via drones. Bush never saw a bureaucracy that wouldn't be better if it was bigger. Bush drove spending through the roof. Bush stuck his head in the sand when science didn't match the bible.
Obama hasn't stuck his head in the sand re: the bible. But on every other issue, Bush has been a piker. Obama is Bush on steroids without the religious nutjob background.
Ask yourself. How would you feel if Mexico ran drones across the US, shooting hellfires at "drug smugglers". Killing several innocent civilians for every "drug smuggler" killed, a large percentage who are kids?
How do you feel about pissing away a trillion dollars on "shovel ready" projects, where all those projects turned out to be stinky horse effluvia?
How do you feel about the Fed spending trillions to keep interest rates low? You on a fixed income? Need that CD money for food and rent?
It's clear by now Obama lied about the Libya killings. That make you feel good?
The problem isn't that Obama is a lying, cheating, sneaky, murderous power hungry asshole. The problem is the country isn't sure if Rmoney would have been more or less than a LCSMPHA.
That's right... I don't HAVE to travel anywhere or cross borders. On the other hand, I do HAVE to pay taxes, and they violate the fourth amendment, IMO, just as much - if not more - when hunting for income to tax. The IRS is brutal and seems to have even fewer obstacles to screwing citizens than Homeland Security does, and with the IRS you're often presumed guilty unless you can prove you're innocent.
Stupid sexy Flanders.
And both seem to want to increase government surveillance and trade freedom for safety.
Excuse me, sir, since trivial research shows a fairly regular stream of arrests and convictions for terrorism related offenses in the United States, could you point me toward the American political party that would be indifferent to truck bombs going off in American shopping malls, as well as various other sorts of terrorist attacks and activities? You seem to believe that wanting to prevent that is a bug, not a feature, and with a large number of political parties in existence, surely one of them must be indifferent to Americans being killed by terrorists, and unwilling to engage in the surveillance necessary to prevent it, and therefore by your reckoning worthy of being voted into power? Which do you recommend?
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
The principles that USA government was founded upon were not 'freedom', they were good self-governance.
There founders were aristocrats and they certainly would have preferred monarchy to democracy, because democracy is just another form of tyranny, except it's the form of tyranny by the stupid. The lowest common denominator that votes only for people who promise some form of a subsidy in the short term, destroying the economic stability in the long term and the Founder were right not to want any of it.
"I give you Republic, if you can keep it" - this means something, this means I give you good form of government, self-governance by design, but not democracy. I give you an experiment, try and not fuck it up by turning it into a democracy.
Suffrage was limited for a good reason. Now, I would not have ratified any Constitution that did not establish equality for all people regardless of their race, however suffrage should be limited and the change in the law that gives everybody a "right to vote" is the real fundamental problem that DESTROYED freedom in America by destroying good self-governance.
Democracy is only one step away from tyranny and that step is the good will of the voter not to go for the politician who promises something free and quick, but to elect officials who promise only one thing: uphold and defend the Constitution.
Uphold and defend the Constitution, not the president, not the Senate, not the Congress, not the SCOTUS and not even the People, but the Document, which is a set of rules without which there is no good self-governance, there is no law.
The Document today is treated as an anachronism, not as the Law and that is what allows the mobocracy. The majority simply elect themselves the government that promises to steal from some minority and to distribute to the majority. This is legalised theft, bribery and corruption.
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