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Politics, Mature and taboo => Political Pundits => Topic started by: Adam on October 03, 2012, 07:18:31 PM
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Mitt Romney is such a sleezy fucking sleezebag
twat
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I shan't be voting for him. :M
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Obama seems kind of hesitant tonight though, don't you think? He's doing well, but Romney's speaking better
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Like a used car salesman
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Like a used car salesman
I believe Tom Cruise (can't stand him either) would use the word "glib." :yarly:
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Managed to catch the last 45 minutes or so.
President Obama shouldn't have nodded his head as if agreeing with Governor Romney. Governor Romney should not have wiped his lip with the handkerchief.
I think these two couldn't agree what time sunrise is.
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Subliminal mindfuck America!
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I've become sick of politics. Its the same guys saying the same thing, Obama has done alot of good things for this country like getting rid of DADT, and making shure the economy didnt go off of the cliff. But I'm still not voting this year, I cant be fuckerd to. but everyone in my family exept one of my sisters is voting for obama
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What is DADT?
I find it weird that you don't have to vote over there if you don't want to. Here, we get fined if we don't vote. Only time I have gotten out of voting was when I was in hospital.
If I were American, I would vote for Obama. From what I have seen of him, he seems pretty decent and straight-talking.
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Mitt Romney is such a sleezy fucking sleezebag
twat
He's worse than that, he actually poses a threat in starting a world war with his ridiculous, ignorant and aggressive stance on foreign policy. Hell, I even will dare to go as far as saying he's the male equivalent of Sarah Palin (okay, maybe too far that remark).
That's not to say Obama is any better, but at least his stance is less bullrushing blindly into another war and more willing to stand up against Israel's not-so-subtle demands to dictate U.S foreign policy. Unfortunately, I feel that only buys time, it doesn't mean Obama won't give in.
But I can't help feeling this will all go the same way as the election in 2000, Obama will appear to win, but suddenly it'll reveal Romney actually won due to disputed votes in a swing state (likely Florida, again). So yeah basically, we're fucked. Hope not.
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In principle there are no good politicians, just less bad ones :thumbdn:
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What is DADT?
I find it weird that you don't have to vote over there if you don't want to. Here, we get fined if we don't vote. Only time I have gotten out of voting was when I was in hospital.
Dont Ask, Dont Tell. It was a policy implamented by the armed forces to not disclose ones sexuality. Now LGBT people can openly serve in the military, It would make me upset if I was fined because I didnt vote. That kind of defeats the whole purpose of freedom in my opinion
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Transgender people still can't. But yeh, gay people now can, which is a good thing
Republicans are fucking insane. We have our own Nasty Party here (tories), but they're no way near as crazy as rrepublicans. One of the things I don't get about american politics is the religion.
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I voted Obama. Wrongney can eat my ass.
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I would vote obama too if I was american. I can't understand how anyone except really rich and heartless religious fundamentalists could even consider voting for Mittens
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Transgender people still can't. But yeh, gay people now can, which is a good thing
Republicans are fucking insane. We have our own Nasty Party here (tories), but they're no way near as crazy as rrepublicans. One of the things I don't get about american politics is the religion.
:agreed: I vote Democrat because I don't want to be governed by fundie Christians.
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Mittens lol.
Yeah, one thing I have noticed about American politics is how religion is such a large part of it. It is almost absent from Australia's politics.
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Flip Flopney. :laugh:
I didnt know Transgender people still werent allowed to serve, that sucks
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Flip Flopney. :laugh:
I didnt know Transgender people still werent allowed to serve, that sucks
I think anyone who takes almost any regular medication except for birth control pills wouldn't be allowed to serve in the military. I'm not sure what the logic is but maybe it could have something to do with what if the person was captured and no longer had access to their medication, what would happen to them?
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^Yes I think this is the reason why asthmatics are not allowed in Australia's army/navy/air force..
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Flip Flopney. :laugh:
I didnt know Transgender people still werent allowed to serve, that sucks
I think anyone who takes almost any regular medication except for birth control pills wouldn't be allowed to serve in the military. I'm not sure what the logic is but maybe it could have something to do with what if the person was captured and no longer had access to their medication, what would happen to them?
If I were captured and had no access to my Strattera, I'd be very ditzy. :P
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Flip Flopney. :laugh:
I didnt know Transgender people still werent allowed to serve, that sucks
I think anyone who takes almost any regular medication except for birth control pills wouldn't be allowed to serve in the military. I'm not sure what the logic is but maybe it could have something to do with what if the person was captured and no longer had access to their medication, what would happen to them?
No. it's because they view it as a mental illness which leaves them unfit to serve
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I voted for Romney because I am a racist.
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As much as I hate him, I'd vote for Romney just to troll the world. :orly:
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I'm taking door #3 because I cannot stand behind either party. Obama failed to deliver on healthcare after he and half his party were presumably bought by the Insurance Industry. As for Romney, i'll be damned if i'm going to cast a vote that would let Mormon power brokers in Utah run this country.
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So, who will you choose? A douche or a turd sandwhich?
(http://speaklittlesaymuch.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/giant-douche-and-turd-sandwich.jpg)
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Obama failed to deliver on healthcare
Details please
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Obama failed to deliver on healthcare
Details please
Congress was partially at fault as well. The AHCFAA passed but there was no Public Option, and then there is the Mandate. Seems like no real change to me and more like business as usual in disguise.
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Obama failed to deliver on healthcare
Details please
Congress was partially at fault as well. The AHCFAA passed but there was no Public Option, and then there is the Mandate. Seems like no real change to me and more like business as usual in disguise.
Congress was "partially at fault" for not passing something only they could pass? When you look at how difficult it was to get anything passed at all, I give him an A for doing what he did.
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Obama failed to deliver on healthcare
Details please
Congress was partially at fault as well. The AHCFAA passed but there was no Public Option, and then there is the Mandate. Seems like no real change to me and more like business as usual in disguise.
Congress was "partially at fault" for not passing something only they could pass? When you look at how difficult it was to get anything passed at all, I give him an A for doing what he did.
You are forgetting the power of veto. Why sign a bill into law that you know is not going to really change anything?
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Obama failed to deliver on healthcare
Details please
Congress was partially at fault as well. The AHCFAA passed but there was no Public Option, and then there is the Mandate. Seems like no real change to me and more like business as usual in disguise.
Congress was "partially at fault" for not passing something only they could pass? When you look at how difficult it was to get anything passed at all, I give him an A for doing what he did.
You are forgetting the power of veto. Why sign a bill into law that you know is not going to really change anything?
If you think the Affordable Care Act didn't "change anything" then I can't debate the topic any further with you as you are woefully misinformed or intentionally ignorant.
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Obama failed to deliver on healthcare
Details please
Congress was partially at fault as well. The AHCFAA passed but there was no Public Option, and then there is the Mandate. Seems like no real change to me and more like business as usual in disguise.
Congress was "partially at fault" for not passing something only they could pass? When you look at how difficult it was to get anything passed at all, I give him an A for doing what he did.
You are forgetting the power of veto. Why sign a bill into law that you know is not going to really change anything?
If you think the Affordable Care Act didn't "change anything" then I can't debate the topic any further with you as you are woefully misinformed or intentionally ignorant.
Tell me, what did it change? What did it do other than giving the Insurance companies more power?
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I understand not being happy with either candidate in a two party state, but isn't a vote for the little guy a vote for Romney?
Surely it's best to vote for Obama anyway, if only to keep out the lunatic?
Even aside from politics, I believe Obama is a decent guy (as decent as a politician can get :P ) and he's clearly more intelligent than Romney and most Republicans (I hesitate to say ALL republicans). Actually fuck it, he's clearly more intelligent than any Republicans.
Romney makes me squirm. I just can;t stand the guy at all. Personally I don't see how anyone could ever think of voting Republican. I can't see how anyone would ever vote Tory over here, and the Republicans are way worse than the Tories
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Anarchy ftw :viking:
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Obama failed to deliver on healthcare
Details please
Congress was partially at fault as well. The AHCFAA passed but there was no Public Option, and then there is the Mandate. Seems like no real change to me and more like business as usual in disguise.
Congress was "partially at fault" for not passing something only they could pass? When you look at how difficult it was to get anything passed at all, I give him an A for doing what he did.
You are forgetting the power of veto. Why sign a bill into law that you know is not going to really change anything?
If you think the Affordable Care Act didn't "change anything" then I can't debate the topic any further with you as you are woefully misinformed or intentionally ignorant.
Tell me, what did it change? What did it do other than giving the Insurance companies more power?
I'm not getting into what this legislation does, how it works, or why the opposition is so up in arms about it that they are now running their third election season based primarily on opposing or repealing it. The information is out there if you want to look it up yourself. I simply don't have it in me any more to educate yet another person on this issue.
Suffice it to say that as an insurance executive and a law student, hearing someone way that this law doesn't "do anything" only reinforces my opinion that the general voting public are so ignorant that we are all doomed.
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I understand not being happy with either candidate in a two party state, but isn't a vote for the little guy a vote for Romney?
I don't follow. Might be another language barrier thing :)
Here, the "little guy" is the opposite of the "big business". A vote for Romney is a vote to take money and services away from the "little guy" so the "big business" can ship more American jobs to China and get a tax break for doing it.
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The dilemma with the capitalism being is that it is state capitalism and not true capitalism. That's why most "small guys" are being "robbed".
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I understand not being happy with either candidate in a two party state, but isn't a vote for the little guy a vote for Romney?
I don't follow. Might be another language barrier thing :)
Here, the "little guy" is the opposite of the "big business". A vote for Romney is a vote to take money and services away from the "little guy" so the "big business" can ship more American jobs to China and get a tax break for doing it.
"the little guy" usually means the same thing here if talking about small shops compareed to supermarkets etc. I didn't mean in business terms tho there - I meant one of the random non Dem/Rep candidates no one in the rest of the world has heard of
Basically surely the only real options are romney or obama. In which case you need to vote for Obama even if only to keep the lunatic out
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:nerdy: I won't pretend to know a fat lot about American politics.
I think i can safely say, from the ickle bit of knowledge i have digested, that i would be voting for Obama.
Even if i had no knowledge whatsoever i could never vote for Romney. He just looks like a used car salesman i once knew. :zoinks:
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Obama failed to deliver on healthcare
Details please
Congress was partially at fault as well. The AHCFAA passed but there was no Public Option, and then there is the Mandate. Seems like no real change to me and more like business as usual in disguise.
Congress was "partially at fault" for not passing something only they could pass? When you look at how difficult it was to get anything passed at all, I give him an A for doing what he did.
You are forgetting the power of veto. Why sign a bill into law that you know is not going to really change anything?
If you think the Affordable Care Act didn't "change anything" then I can't debate the topic any further with you as you are woefully misinformed or intentionally ignorant.
Tell me, what did it change? What did it do other than giving the Insurance companies more power?
I'm not getting into what this legislation does, how it works, or why the opposition is so up in arms about it that they are now running their third election season based primarily on opposing or repealing it. The information is out there if you want to look it up yourself. I simply don't have it in me any more to educate yet another person on this issue.
Suffice it to say that as an insurance executive and a law student, hearing someone way that this law doesn't "do anything" only reinforces my opinion that the general voting public are so ignorant that we are all doomed.
It does not do anything that will make a real difference and I know most of the provisions of the law. With that being said, the only thing that will make a real difference is completely socialized medicine modeled after the NHS of the UK.
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I understand not being happy with either candidate in a two party state, but isn't a vote for the little guy a vote for Romney?
I don't follow. Might be another language barrier thing :)
Here, the "little guy" is the opposite of the "big business". A vote for Romney is a vote to take money and services away from the "little guy" so the "big business" can ship more American jobs to China and get a tax break for doing it.
"the little guy" usually means the same thing here if talking about small shops compareed to supermarkets etc. I didn't mean in business terms tho there - I meant one of the random non Dem/Rep candidates no one in the rest of the world has heard of
Basically surely the only real options are romney or obama. In which case you need to vote for Obama even if only to keep the lunatic out
:agreed: I vote Democrat because their candidates have the best chance of
keeping the right-wing Christians out of office, and that is important to me.
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I would do the same too
I'm a Labour Party supporter here. Theyre not perfect, but they're the best of a bad bunch, by far. you're not gonna find a party who agrees with you on every single point, are you? So you may as well go with the most decent one that stands a chance of making a difference
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What ever happened to Ron Paul?
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What ever happened to Ron Paul?
He was running as a Republican and did not do so well. He could have made a go at running as a third party but did not.
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What ever happened to Ron Paul?
He was screwed by the Romney morons.
(Not a Paultard)
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What ever happened to Ron Paul?
He finally retired. He never had a chance of winning, but used the campaign every 4 years to bring attention to things that need attention to be brought.
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Ron Paul: I don't believe in evolution (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JyvkjSKMLw#)
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What a fucking moron.
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:agreed:
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They all are.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAiV6jk9Pl4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAiV6jk9Pl4)
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There are intelligent people in govt. There are no intelligent Republicans though
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:M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXCKSBU2k4Y&feature=g-u-u (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXCKSBU2k4Y#ws)