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US Federal Elections 2012

Where Obamas policies only damage the living conditions of EVERYONE.
I see.

If youre going to stick your nose into American business at least TRY to read a newspaper or even the most extreme liberal rag...... they all have more of a clue than this.
Well, maybe I should have mentioned unwavering support for Israel and a policy of insulting allies.

YEP ....... Libya and Egypt are working out great ...... again..... try reading a newspaper or some type of news media
Well, Libya has feck all security right now, but its parliament is a lot more secular than Gadaffi. As for Egypt, Morsi is keen to maintain peace with Israel and keep the US on side, but he also has to keep to public opinion, as he is the democratically elected President of Egypt, the most populous Arab state by far.
so your theory is to sit on the sidelines and let the world explode as well.......... nice
Uhm.. no, I'm quite the interventionist. What could Obama have done differently? He's done nothing with regard to Israel/Palestine sure, but it seems he has done well with regard to the destruction of Earth.

It was a good post... Im glad you made it.... solidifies even more the reason why you should mind your own business and worry about that craphole you live in......
Well, I mean I get upset about living here sometimes myself, but our standard of living is a bit ahead of America in all fairness.

and youre welcome for the welfare checks my crappy country sends yours..... YAWN
Where are these welfare checks and how can I acquire them?!?
Ireland isnt even in NATO lolololol etc.
 
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Couple of things. First of all, sentiment in the US tends to run pretty strongly pro-Israel. A pro-Palestinian candidate is not likely to be elected. At the very least he is going to have a very hard time.

Not sure where you get the stats about the standard of living being better in the UK. I guess it depends on how you measure it. The quality of life index I looked at recently had the US in the top 15 and the UK in the top 30. This was like a 5 yr old survey though. I seem to recall that the US has more cars per capita than any other nation in the world. It's not unusual here for people to own more cars than they have drivers, but I would wager that is not the same across the world. Our GDP per capita is higher than the UK. None of this should be very surprising though given that US workers work more hours than workers in the UK. It would make sense that they'd have more disposable income.
 
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Couple of things. First of all, sentiment in the US tends to run pretty strongly pro-Israel. A pro-Palestinian candidate is not likely to be elected. At the very least he is going to have a very hard time.
Yeah, but nonetheless, not doing anything is a foreign policy blunder IMO.

Not sure where you get the stats about the standard of living being better in the UK.
Thats not my country etc.

U.N. HDI Index 2011 (Very basic, really)
Norway 0.943 ()
Australia 0.929 ()
Netherlands 0.910 ()
United States 0.910 ()
New Zealand 0.908 ()
Canada 0.908 ()
Ireland 0.908 ()

As you see Ireland is .002 below the US, and of course our GDP per capita (PPP) is $10,000 less. There is far less shootings, crime, etc, we have a stronger welfare state, friendlier people. Yada yada you get the picture.

As for the Quality of Life index, well.... Quality-of-life Index - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Community life: Variable taking value 1 if country has either high rate of church attendance or trade-union membership; zero otherwise. Source: World Values Survey

How union membership has grown - and shrunk | News | guardian.co.uk

As one can see, Union membership is low (and needless to say, Brits dont go to church, Americans do).

That basically knocks one point off the UK, while gifting 1 point to the US, remove that and the UK is higher.
 
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Romney's foreign policy, shoot first, aim later, implements Chaney's hunting policy.

Mitt Romney Response To Libya, Egypt Attacks Called 'Irresponsible,' 'Craven,' 'Ham-Handed'

"The Romney campaign drew fire on Wednesday morning for issuing a blistering statement condemning the American embassy in Egypt for speaking against an incendiary anti-Muslim film, even though the embassy made the statement before any attacks had taken place. NBC's Chuck Todd, for instance, called the statement "irresponsible" and a "bad mistake." ABC's Jake Tapper said that Romney's attack "does not stand up to simple chronology.""
 
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Romney's foreign policy, shoot first, aim later, implements Chaney's hunting policy.

Mitt Romney Response To Libya, Egypt Attacks Called 'Irresponsible,' 'Craven,' 'Ham-Handed'

"The Romney campaign drew fire on Wednesday morning for issuing a blistering statement condemning the American embassy in Egypt for speaking against an incendiary anti-Muslim film, even though the embassy made the statement before any attacks had taken place. NBC's Chuck Todd, for instance, called the statement "irresponsible" and a "bad mistake." ABC's Jake Tapper said that Romney's attack "does not stand up to simple chronology.""
Seriously, this is not a man for foreign policy at all at all.
 
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Well, Romney is toast. Well he at least knows he doesn't have to release those tax returns showing he received amnesty for his illegal Swiss bank account.


Today, Mitt Romney Lost the Election - Bloomberg

Romney is the most opaque presidential nominee since Nixon, and people have been reduced to guessing what his true feelings are. This video provides an answer: He feels that you're a loser. It's not an answer that wins elections.
 
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You generally block crap ideas.

This is where I go back to some of my previous rants about how f---ed up politics is. An idea is immediately crap because it's your opponents idea. Yet if your opponent opposes your idea it's because they are bad/evil/ignorant/want to send us back to the dark ages. So you become the hero for blocking every single think your opponent tries to do and the other party becomes the villain for even daring to question any of your ideas.
 
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This is where I go back to some of my previous rants about how f---ed up politics is. An idea is immediately crap because it's your opponents idea. Yet if your opponent opposes your idea it's because they are bad/evil/ignorant/want to send us back to the dark ages. So you become the hero for blocking every single think your opponent tries to do and the other party becomes the villain for even daring to question any of your ideas.
Yeah thats what Republicans do.

Its nice, even in Ireland Sinn F
 
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