Thrawn's Revenge
Off Topic => The Lounge => Topic started by: Isamu on February 24, 2008, 06:04:27 PM
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who will you vote for and why? if other who and why?
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If i were a US citizen, which im not, i would probably vote for Obama - He seems to be the candidate whose beliefs and values most closely relate to my own.
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Umm... Romney is no longer running for the candidacy, looks like McCain is gonna win it, you should probably make sure you know who has a chance for running for president before you make a poll about it.
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Alright, ima going to edit the poll, remove Romney, and add Ralph Nader (who has just announced (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7261670.stm) he is running for Presidency)
EDIT: I also added McCain. There's no point adding Huckabee as there's no chance he'll win the Republican nomination :P
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Canadian and under 18, so I can't vote. If I could I'd vote for Obama, because unlike every Republican he promotes Environmental things and isn't going to invade Iran on his first day. I prefer him to Hillary because of Economic and Environmental stuff as well.
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He doesn't want to waste his time in Iran, he wants to invade Pakistan instead
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Also Canadian and a minor. I would also vote for Obama for basically the same reasons as Arb. Also I always feel like Clinton will try to eat me. :o
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yea i know romney is not running but still. i couldn't think of anyone else at the time. and nader is running?
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Let me put it this way......
I live in the US.
I think the US government has too much power.
Name the one candidate that CAN reduce the power of not only the President, but also Congress?
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Lemme guess....Jesus, Osama bin Laden, Jean Chretien or Arthur Meighen.
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I'm also part of the "can't vote"-croup as I'm not american but I'll say Obama too.He seems the best candidate to replace bush as a president.
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Let me put it this way......
I live in the US.
I think the US government has too much power.
Name the one candidate that CAN reduce the power of not only the President, but also Congress?
i'd rather be in a country with too much power than one with not enough
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too much power corrupts. it brings doom. it brings the end of countries.
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I did not think about that
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i'll say obama as well. although also non-american/minor, i dislike how clinton is trying to use bill clinton as a campaign-aid, and don't get me started on republicans. anti-abortion, pro-capital punishment, anti-stem cell research etcetc, no. plus, mccain sounds awful. i looked him up on wikipedia, and apparrently, he told a texas senator to "f**k off" for criticising one of his policies. do you really want a man like him in power of the USA?
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apparrently, he told a texas senator to "f**k off" for criticising one of his policies. do you really want a man like him in power of the USA?
Well, to be honest, if it were up to me, i would want someone who's honest and speaks his/her mind rather than someone who says one thing and means another, or just says what they think people want to hear.
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apparrently, he told a texas senator to "f**k off" for criticising one of his policies. do you really want a man like him in power of the USA?
Well, to be honest, if it were up to me, i would want someone who's honest and speaks his/her mind rather than someone who says one thing and means another, or just says what they think people want to hear.
nonetheless, a republican is the last thing america needs. i mean, name me a good republican president.
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apparrently, he told a texas senator to "f**k off" for criticising one of his policies. do you really want a man like him in power of the USA?
Well, to be honest, if it were up to me, i would want someone who's honest and speaks his/her mind rather than someone who says one thing and means another, or just says what they think people want to hear.
Honest politician? Good luck on finding that.
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Im allowed to be optimistic, arent i? ;)
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apparrently, he told a texas senator to "f**k off" for criticising one of his policies. do you really want a man like him in power of the USA?
Well, to be honest, if it were up to me, i would want someone who's honest and speaks his/her mind rather than someone who says one thing and means another, or just says what they think people want to hear.
Shawinigan handshake FTW!
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Lemme guess....Jesus, Osama bin Laden, Jean Chretien or Arthur Meighen.
Actually I was thinking of Cincinnatus......
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McCain considered by most to be one of the only actual 'good people' politicians (by good people i mean his history/likeability/personality). But i'd pick Nader just cause i'm tired of real politicians.
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apparrently, he told a texas senator to "f**k off" for criticising one of his policies. do you really want a man like him in power of the USA?
Well, to be honest, if it were up to me, i would want someone who's honest and speaks his/her mind rather than someone who says one thing and means another, or just says what they think people want to hear.
nonetheless, a republican is the last thing america needs. i mean, name me a good republican president.
the only thing i requre out of a president is past military expierience, the knowlege of the usa economy, and the ability to fight a war well. everything you would expect out of a president branches out from there. like the really key stuff such as tax breaks.
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Why would president need to know how to fight a war? That might cause some suspision on the world if your president was some war crazy loonie.
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I agree with you we don't need a Republican and we don't need a Democrat. If their were a Democrat who could get the job done I would vote for him/her. Party doesn't matter, its like a glorified extracurricular club. Right now there is no one running on either side that I would vote for, and I hope that you will understand that saying that we don't need a Republican/Democrat is not an intelligent statement.
Right now we need someone who understands the economy, doesn't want to put taxes on paying taxes, someone who can fight a war and not make us look like sissies.
Also Meyer, because one of his main jobs as president is commander-in-chief, the commander of the military as whole. But I do understand that you don't know because you don't live here. This is why Obama and Clinton couldn't run the US, because they are PUSSIES!
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I do understand that the president is the commander of the military as whole. You see we have it the same way. Halonen is the supreme commander of our military forces. But I doubt she knows how to fight wars. and that wasn't the reason she was elected. And what I've seen Bush to do he isn't so good commander himself. In Iraq there is casualties piling up on daily bases while you make near zero progress.
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I do understand that the president is the commander of the military as whole. You see we have it the same way. Halonen is the supreme commander of our military forces. But I doubt she knows how to fight wars. and that wasn't the reason she was elected. And what I've seen Bush to do he isn't so good commander himself. In Iraq there is casualties piling up on daily bases while you make near zero progress.
near zero progress? Casualties and enemy conflicts have been on the decline for a few months now......
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I do understand that the president is the commander of the military as whole. You see we have it the same way. Halonen is the supreme commander of our military forces. But I doubt she knows how to fight wars. and that wasn't the reason she was elected. And what I've seen Bush to do he isn't so good commander himself. In Iraq there is casualties piling up on daily bases while you make near zero progress.
near zero progress? Casualties and enemy conflicts have been on the decline for a few months now......
how can you call it progress when nothing good has really come out of iraq. soldiers ahve died, al'quaeda have moved into iraq, and the war is endless. not progress, actually. plus, taxes and economy are damaged through an war.
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While I think the president needs to be a good leader, He (or she if we ever elect a woman) does not need to know how to fight a war from a STRATEGIC stand point. He/she would need to know how to fight from a LOGISTIC stand point.
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While I think the president needs to be a good leader, He (or she if we ever elect a woman) does not need to know how to fight a war from a STRATEGIC stand point. He/she would need to know how to fight from a LOGISTIC stand point.
I didnt think the President needed to be able to fight from either perspective - Doesnt the Pentagon have a load of military commanders, advisors, strategists, and associated personnel to do that?
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Maybe I should rephrase that. What I intended to say was is that the president needs to know how to properly balance resources between military and civilian areas of government... Like cash.
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what i meant was that a president should know what he/she is doing when it comes to war so they are not talked into doing something stupid by a military advisor who will not be taking responsibility for what the president orders. say clinton is elected and her military advisor convinces her to nuke iraq. who takes the blame for giving the order? clinton does.
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Well there is this system called a military dictatorship that allows the decision maker to be blamed....not that anything can be done about it.
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what i meant was that a president should know what he/she is doing when it comes to war so they are not talked into doing something stupid by a military advisor who will not be taking responsibility for what the president orders. say clinton is elected and her military advisor convinces her to nuke iraq. who takes the blame for giving the order? clinton does.
No one is stupid enough to do that because some guy says to. You forget that politicians never take the advice of those in the military any more
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Which is one of the problems......
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what i meant was that a president should know what he/she is doing when it comes to war so they are not talked into doing something stupid by a military advisor who will not be taking responsibility for what the president orders. say clinton is elected and her military advisor convinces her to nuke iraq. who takes the blame for giving the order? clinton does.
No one is stupid enough to do that because some guy says to. You forget that politicians never take the advice of those in the military any more
that was just an example