For the record....

[TheeGoatPig]

thanks...I don't usually leave it up long, although I'm not sure why.

Good thing Spawn isn't around lately

 

[cloudy]

Good thing Spawn isn't around lately

That's why!

changing back...

 

[ottohauser1977]

That's why!

changing back...

Well, I don't want to cause trouble for you.

 

[cloudy]

Well, I don't want to cause trouble for you.

my nineteen-year-old son is a member here, too (Spawn_of_Cloudy), although he's just started college, so isn't around much.

no trouble, just don't have any wish to embarrass him.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

That's why!

changing back...

Good thing Spawn isn't around lately

Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up!

 

[ottohauser1977]

my nineteen-year-old son is a member here, too (Spawn_of_Cloudy), although he's just started college, so isn't around much.

no trouble, just don't have any wish to embarrass him.

Ah, I see.

 

[SlickTony]

Thanks for your vote, Otto. And I'm impressed that you seem to be more au courant with American history than a lot of Americans.

 

[Guest]

Ya know... I truly love having so many on ignore... LOL

makes the political threads much easier to read

*falls over laughing my ass off*

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Update: a recent poll of Republicans shows a preference of 64% for Sarah Palin.

Oh, Republicans, please do nominate her! 8 years of Barack Obama would really help this nation.

LOL

Hubbie said, "We're putting a Palin 2012 sign on our lawn."

I stared at him, aghast. "Why? As a joke?"

"No! I want her to run - so she can lose."

Me, I'm too afraid she'd win. All I had to do was remind him of "W"...

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Nancy Pelosi will drag Obama into the bushes and her way with him....like Dracula with a virgin.

 

[cantdog]

....I eventually broke down and voted for Obama. My reason? Absolute horror at the idea of another rightist government. I couldn't stand even the risk of putting another far-right candidate in the White House. We need a break from conservatism, at least. Even if it means that the Democrats will be blamed for our problems. In fact, I voted a straight Democratic ticket, just out of disgust with the GOP.

I had qualms about Obama, given his association with Tony Rezko, but I figured that I would give him a chance. After all, Chester Arthur had a corrupt reputation, but did surprisingly well.

Besides, I kind of liked the idea that my first vote as an American would put a black man in the White House.

I know that I initially planned to back Nader, but a man can change his mind, right?

Of course, living in Texas, my vote only affected the popular total, not the electoral count.

Jefferson said that the electorate owes it to itself to vote a party out once it has been in power twenty years.

 

[ottohauser1977]

Thanks for your vote, Otto. And I'm impressed that you seem to be more au courant with American history than a lot of Americans.

Thank you. That's the thing about having to study civics courses to understand one's adopted country.

As for the whole business of his foreign policy, I think that the fears of excessive pandering to Europe are unfounded. American attitudes toward other countries and institutions haven't fundamentally changed. Nor do I think that they should, aside from respecting the need for allies and multi-lateral institutions more. Each country is unique, and will always have its own outlook on its neighbors. This is a historical pattern that won't change because of one election.

As for scientific policy, I prefer to be optimistic. I look forward to one day seeing the eradication of most present diseases, though I suspect that we will then have to work on curing more such scourges. I especially hope for the end of STDs and HIV, so as to eliminate a major weapon in the cultural arsenal of the prudish element throughout the world.

If the primary sexual consequence, for good or ill, is pregnancy, not disease, then it just becomes a matter of prophylactics, contraceptives, and sterilization after once people decide not to have more children. The "wrath of God" and other inane Victorian bogeymen will be neutralized.

 

[ottohauser1977]

Jefferson said that the electorate owes it to itself to vote a party out once it has been in power twenty years.

And, aside from Clinton, the GOP has had quite a long run.