If McCain wins this election, I'm leaving the country. I know a lot of people are saying that, but I won't leave because I fear a McCain-Palin White House. Don't get me wrong, that would really, really suck. But I've survived eight years of Bush-Cheney, so I'm pretty sure that I could get through four years of McCain-Palin. No, I'll leave because if the Democrats don't win this election, they'll never be able to win any election.
The Dems couldn't ask for better circumstances than what they have right now. The stars are in near perfect alignment. Here's just some of the factors that should ensure a Democratic victory:
• The sitting Republican president has an historically low approval rating, and McCain has voted with him over 90% of the time.
• The US economy is on the precipice of another Great Depression due to flawed Republican economic policies.
• The Bush Administration has treated the Constitution like a urinal cake.
• Thanks to Bush, the international perception of the US is that we're a bunch of idiot bullies.
• The US is currently fighting two foreign wars, one of which the Bush Administration purposefully misled the American people into supporting.
• The Republican candidate for president is 72 years old, has had serious skin cancer four times, refuses to release his medical records, and is unsure of how many homes he own.
• The Republican Vice Presidential candidate has publicly stated that the entirety of her foreign policy experience stems from her ability to see Russia on a clear day from her home state, she believes that man and dinosaurs walked the earth at the same time, and she won't stop winking at me.
• The ranking Republican in the Senate was just convicted of 7 counts of corruption.
• The Obama campaign has raised more money than any presidential candidate in history. This is especially noteworthy considering the financial climate.
• There are more new (Democratic) voters in this election than in any election in modern history.
• Love him or hate him, Barack Obama is the youngest, most charismatic political figure since JFK.
Even the most conservative Republican would agree that nearly everything is going in favor of the Democrats. If they can't close the deal now, then I can't imagine any circumstances in which they could. Simply put, if the people of America are ignorant enough to be taken in by the increasingly desperate Republican campaign of racial fear mongering and hate politics, then maybe this country isn't the type of place I want to live.
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If the Repubs can steal this election, and if enough Americans can vote against their own self-interest in enough numbers to actually put McCain in the White House, then this isn't a functioning democracy and the USA for the people no longer exists. The big money smear machine has too much hold.
Besides, if the will of the majority can be thwarted AGAIN, God only knows how people will react. Moving to Canada might be the mildest response.
You're time and energies would be far better spent helping us become the 51st state. Seriously!
Speaking of Canada, if you go to Canadafreepress.com, you can find an interesting video that explains the relationship between Obama and his cousin, the terrorist Odinga from Kenya. He is responsible for inciting his followers into a political slaughter of his opposition jusst because he lost the Kenyan elections last year, and Obama went to Kenya in Dec 2007 on the taxpayers dole, to show support for this barbaric individual, He also (Odinga) signed a pact with radical Muslims to back Islam as the fundamental religionn in Kenya if he wins the next election
Also everyone is on to that trick of keep saying it long enough and it will be true even if it is not.. you all need a new tactic.
As relentless as this campaign has been about name calling and accusations, don´t you think if your Odinga story had any veracity they would have said it before 6 days before the election?
Get with it, it is over, the days hate and revenge and war mongering and hegemony and demogagory are coming to end and being replaced by days of hope and togetherness, and a more unified populace that actually cares about one another, that is what this election is about.
Truth over Hate Obama/Biden 08