Obama Wins!! (moderator supported thread)

[Anton P. Nym]

Sorry, I guess I worded the question wrong. I meant how would you react to an influx of rednecks who would call french Canadians cowards at any chance they get, and by the way I'm relatively sure that if every republican left the US they would outnumber Canadians, but don't quote me on that.

I think your typical Rush Dittohead would have a stroke up here with our tax structure, secular government, and social safety net... and that we aren't all subjugated drones of our Jackbooted Socialist Gummint, managing to live free and reasonably comfortable lives anyway. So I don't worry too much about thickies stampeding across the border; a combination of their chicken-fried steak diet and our legalising gay marriage would take care of them pretty quickly.

-- Steve

 

[AgentNein]

New rule: Those who think that we should ridicule people with opposing political beliefs should stop talking about whats best for the country. I go into fits of conserva-rage that are very hard to stop.

It's not that the beliefs are opposing. See, as people we have the right to decide which beliefs are worth debating with and which are laugh out loud ridiculous. And as long as we keep that out of the government everything is fine.

Exactly. Not all opinions are created equal. My friend's grandmother for instance is of the opinion that we should just bomb the middle east and wipe it off the map because they're all just terrorists anyway. I think we can all agree that she's a dolt, right? ...right?

 

[OverlordSteve]

America's reaction to this is hilarious. YAY, A BLACK GUY IS PRESIDENT. A BLACK GUY. WHO HOO. WE TOTALLY DON'T DISCRIMINATE BY RACE OR ANYTHING.

Also, as part of my homework tonight I need to write him a letter.

 

[The Overmatt]

Sorry, I guess I worded the question wrong. I meant how would you react to an influx of rednecks who would call french Canadians cowards at any chance they get, and by the way I'm relatively sure that if every republican left the US they would outnumber Canadians, but don't quote me on that.

I think your typical Rush Dittohead would have a stroke up here with our tax structure, secular government, and social safety net... and that we aren't all subjugated drones of our Jackbooted Socialist Gummint, managing to live free and reasonably comfortable lives anyway. So I don't worry too much about thickies stampeding across the border; a combination of their chicken-fried steak diet and our legalising gay marriage would take care of them pretty quickly.

-- Steve

Well said Steve. Well said.

 

[Lord Beautiful]

Ugh, disappointing. Obama winning makes me question America. *sigh*

I sympathize.

 

[Alotak]

To be honest i could not care less about the american elections, (Obama yay!).
You guys do realise that it is frankly brilliant that he is in power, i cant remember but he is doing somehitng to the defence budget. Plus he will not run into war like a crazy fool(looking at no-one imparticular Mr Bush.)
Aslong as he sorts out all the problems and turns america around from the bottom of the populairty pounds.

 

[Lavi]

America's reaction to this is hilarious. YAY, A BLACK GUY IS PRESIDENT. A BLACK GUY. WHO HOO. WE TOTALLY DON'T DISCRIMINATE BY RACE OR ANYTHING.

Also, as part of my homework tonight I need to write him a letter.

-.- The reaction is: HOLY CRAP, WE FINALLY FOLLOW OUR CONSTITUTION! WE STOPPED SUCKING AT HUMAN RIGHTS! HOLY FREAKING CRAP!

 

[Spartan Bannana]

Ugh, disappointing. Obama winning makes me question America. *sigh*

I sympathize.

why?

Maybe their off their rockers and want that scary ***** Palin to rule?

 

[Dr Pussymagnet]

Meh.

EDIT: Yeah, I should probably say something other than "meh." Well after I found this out last night I could only dread as to what I was going to see at my school the next day. I go only to find out that there are at least 25+ people wearing stupid "Obama is my homeboy" t-shirts.

 

[Bulletinmybrain]

Yes yes Obama won congrats, you deserve a snickers if you supported him. For those of us who didnt, well there is always 2012.

Whats pissing me off right now are all these people outside of the United States congratulating America like it was a good dog and throwing us a treat. While its nice to be reminded that unlike other countries elections, ours actually attract the attention of the entire world, it just gets under my skin when people from one country talk about politics in another country like they actually have some clue about what is best for that country.

We DO know better. Sorry,but you voted in Bush... TWICE! The world had their eyes on this election to see if you'd just vote in a Bush clone or not. Now we congradulate America because we know that you finally did something right. Plus, what else are we going to be watching? Paint dry?

And you are misinformed. McCain is not another bush clone. If you known him before he started appealing to the political center he was known as a maverick because he went against his party. Its the high cost of elections that has changed him. Just like how obama has changed his stance on issues because of the money from PAC's and such that he needed.

 

[mrnelsby]

You know, there are a lot of misinformed people in this thread.

First of all, America BARELY elected Bush, in fact, some argue that the election was very suspect in both cases. In fact Gore won the popular vote (meaning he got more raw votes, but didn't carry the right states to get the "points" needed).

Yes. Our electoral system is somewhat like an Capture and Hold game of TF2.

See what I did there? I brought it back to videogames!

 

[Gahars]

WOOT!

Just awesome.

 

[sneakypenguin]

Oh i know that, i was implying about the idiots who think we should be able to own AK's and M16's and what not. but hey like i said, i was a wee bit drunk last night

Actually You can own AK 47s and M16(though its sold usually as the AR15 or any assorment of bushmaster names)
. You can own the fully automatic versions to, you just need a special license (I believe it's a class 3 or something like that requires killer backround check and lots of fees)

 

[Bulletinmybrain]

Oh i know that, i was implying about the idiots who think we should be able to own AK's and M16's and what not. but hey like i said, i was a wee bit drunk last night

Actually You can own AK 47s and M16(though its sold usually as the AR15 or any assorment of bushmaster names)
. You can own the fully automatic versions to, you just need a special license (I believe it's a class 3 or something like that requires killer backround check and lots of fees)

You need killer background checks for anything automatic. Period. Hell unless you give a good enough reason there is very little chance of getting anything more then a shotgun or pistol.(Expect for the black-market. Read a story about a guy importing a Spaz-15 when it first came out.)

Also: America is a dictatorial government. We do not elect out president. The two political partys pick electorates to pick our president. So going out to vote is very little help seeing as how little impact it holds.

 

[CIA]

Yes yes Obama won congrats, you deserve a snickers if you supported him. For those of us who didnt, well there is always 2012.

Whats pissing me off right now are all these people outside of the United States congratulating America like it was a good dog and throwing us a treat. While its nice to be reminded that unlike other countries elections, ours actually attract the attention of the entire world, it just gets under my skin when people from one country talk about politics in another country like they actually have some clue about what is best for that country.

We DO know better. Sorry,but you voted in Bush... TWICE! The world had their eyes on this election to see if you'd just vote in a Bush clone or not. Now we congradulate America because we know that you finally did something right. Plus, what else are we going to be watching? Paint dry?

And you are misinformed. McCain is not another bush clone. If you known him before he started appealing to the political center he was known as a maverick because he went against his party. Its the high cost of elections that has changed him. Just like how Obama has changed his stance on issues because of the money from PAC's and such that he needed.

You speak truth, however, he moved very very fast towards the Republican base when it looked like he was going to win. I find it sad that you can only get elected in America if you are a Democrat or a Republican. That said I'm a big Obama supporter and a big democrat I just think the two party system needs some re-thinking.

Edit: (To above) A dictatorship? Don't you think that's going a bit far?

 

[TheBluesader]

I'm a registered Republican who really liked McCain early on. But then as I watched his campaign implode and his running mate make speeches a senior high class president would be proud of, I got the impression that maybe he just wasn't the man we needed for the job right now. So I voted for Obama. Hope he can actually fix the things that need fixing.

To all my fellow Republicans: time to wake up, folks. Our party no longer represents its core values. Now it's all blind patriotism and legislating morality. We either need to fix it, or jump off the sinking ship.

OH, and if you don't know what the core values are supposed to be, or you think that blind patriotism and legislating morality ARE the core values, you're part of the problem and should wise up or leave the party. Insane military spending and subsidies to unnecessary corn farmers are only "core values" because Bush and Reagan went to church with really sneaky rich guys. It's disgusting, really.