All parties aside...Obama?

I really don't mean to be offensive here, but I'm surprised that there are as many Americans still talking about the mainstream candidates as there are. I would think by now more people would get how our government runs. I'm stunned that the american people haven't realized that it doesn't matter who you vote for if you're voting republican or democrat; they are all the same guy with a different body. It's nice to pretend to believe that our voice matters, but in my opinion it doesn't. Everyone of them is sold out to lobbyists and banks. These candidates pretend to offer us choices in things that matter very little for our country as a whole, while continuing to push the same agendas as the last. You can vote for Obama or Romney and maybe things will change with homosexual marriage or abortion, but trillions of dollars will continue to be spent on wars, making weapons, putting people in (privatized) prisons, bail-outs, re-enforcing national security (while stripping away our freedoms in the name of safety), establishing an even larger government, pharmaceutical research, etc. Like I said, I don't mean to offend you, but in my opinion, if you are asking about Obama it doesn't matter because it won't change anything. That's not the answer to the problem and I don't know what is short of a revolution. Hopefully it doesn't have to go that far, but a vote for a democrat or republican will make very little difference for this country on the large scale.

P.S. Sorry for such a pessimistic view on politics and the upcoming election, but at this point I trust almost every politician about as far as I can throw them.

i vote for killer of Osama bin Laden..............he won my vote when they whacked OBL. besides........."Mitt" is a pussy name. Barak.............now there's a strong name. we need a strong front right now.

Originally Posted by scroglodyte

i vote for killer of Osama bin Laden..............he won my vote when they whacked OBL. besides........."Mitt" is a pussy name. Barak.............now there's a strong name. we need a strong front right now.

Barack is Arabic for, "to recieve the blessing." Yeah, really strong name.

Mitt is short for Milton, Mill Town. The mill fed people.

What does blessing get you except bullshit?

Originally Posted by scroglodyte

i vote for killer of Osama bin Laden..............he won my vote when they whacked OBL. besides........."Mitt" is a pussy name. Barak.............now there's a strong name. we need a strong front right now.

If one of the Seal Team Six members was running for president, I'd vote for him too.

ya the killer of osama, health care,dont ask dont tell ,immagration executive order and i think he has got swag.

General Motors is alive and bin Laden is dead, meanwhile the other guy has an entitlement complex so bad he doesnt even know what a damn donut is.

Rik, we talk about the mainstream candidates because they are the only ones with a hope of making it. This isn't accommodation or defeatism; it's plain reality, despite the odd fellow in plate armor around here challenging windmills to single combat.

As to the original question: No. A certain someone promised Hope and Change, and I see us still at war with folks where the mission isn't "correct a conquest" but "advance our interests" ... and of course internally in re Drug War and all its associated ills. If he wanted to really impress me, he'd have held a war trial for the investment bankers featured in "Inside Job".

But compared to the horrific other choice? Yes. cn