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I would vote Obama.

Also as a UK citizen I don't want Romney having anything to with the UK, there's just something I don't like about the guy..........

 Brother-Captain Scotti wrote:
I would vote Obama.

Also as a UK citizen I don't want Romney having anything to with the UK, there's just something I don't like about the guy..........

Is it his religious choice that forbids caffeine?

 Brother-Captain Scotti wrote:
I would vote Obama.

Also as a UK citizen I don't want Romney having anything to with the UK, there's just something I don't like about the guy..........

icky Mormon?

icky Republican?

icky Rich dude?


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 Alfndrate wrote:

 Brother-Captain Scotti wrote:
I would vote Obama.

Also as a UK citizen I don't want Romney having anything to with the UK, there's just something I don't like about the guy..........

Is it his religious choice that forbids caffeine?

No... that's alcohol... which, is a black mark... at least we'd know who would be the designated driver would be!

I would vote independent, probably Green.

I find myself in my usual position: Not so much voting FOR anyone, as voting AGAINST the more useless of two cantidates.

Case in point: Here in MO we have the race between McCaskill and Akins. Claire has been, at best, a very poor Senator. She was so bad that even most Democrats were going to vote against her. Akins literally had an election he COULD NOT LOOSE.

Then he opened his mouth and talked about legitimate rape. Talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of certain victory!

Regardless of how one feels about abortion, that he would make such a divisive statement and risk his election bid doesn't speak well to either his intelligence or his judgement.


Of course, that's normal in American politics, where the quality of people we routinely vote for cantidates to run our country is are so corrupt we wouldn't willingly invite into our homes...

I voted against someone because he had a terrible mustache. OK, that isn't true, but I really wanted to vote against him because I hated his mustache.

I split the ticket. There were some local Republicans I like and a few Democrats. The local 3rd party candidates were kinda meh this election cycle.

I went to vote for the guy who isn't a coporate owned morally corrupt bastard, but sadly they left him of fthe ballot.


As long as our two party system is in place it prevents us from having any sort of true Democracy.

My wife and I both voted straight ticket Democrat. Less POTUS and House for me. She voted actual straight ticket.

Early voted straight ticket democrat (sucks to be the people who have to stand in line on election day!) in a choice between the disappointing party and the repulsively evil party. My state is too closely divided for a protest vote, so I had to settle for doing what I can to keep the worse of the two evils out of office.

I voted for the party of Disappointment as well, generally. Still a few R's here and there where I know who they are and what they do (Sheriff, some judges, etc).

Going to an NBA game tonight, I will assume all the usual crazy people will be in here when I get back.

Where are the other options on the poll, Jill, Rocky, and Bill I think? There were at least 6 candidates on my ballot for President this cycle.

I voted for romney because i hate everybody . I kid but i find it so odd how most my age esp. from europe are so left wing.

I honestly don't care much about politics and i'll probably get bashed for being the one person in the crowd to choose different but i wasn't fond of obama and the better republican candidates got weeded out. Still prefer not to go obama though. Hate me if you wish. Hate me for not really casting care into the vote i cast.

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:


*snip*

Thanks for writing that, I enjoyed reading it (actually, not sure that is the correct phrase as was actually a bit upsetting to read, but it was certainly well written!)

I'm sending my vote for Obama, hopefully the US accepts it.

Both sides have their good and bad. Honestly i'm not for abortion or for others approving it. I have my reasons. I think it's just beyond what we know or what we think we know (when life starts or not).

As far as religion or being gay or not goes i don't care. You can be a gay black hippie that enjoys marrying and having sex with goats for all i care and then decides to have goat-men children. Ok that's probably a little extreme but considering single parents i see nothing wrong with gay people marrying and having kids. Why can't they just marry outside of your religion? It's not as if people said gay christian people have to marry. Then again this goes into the whole question of why people that are gay or decide there are so many things wrong in their opinion with the bible why they still believe in it anyway.

I also don't really care on people deciding for for legal weed or not. To me a pot-head is still annoying but it's not any worse than alcohol and at least pot-heads will shut up about legalizing it if it is legalized.

Other than that i find myself going republican for some other things. It's just how i am. I find myself leaning to the left a little but mostly on the gay marriage thing.

I find both sides whine a lot but even though i work with a lot of right wing people and grew up around them they don't seem half as annoying to me as the left wing people. Most of my age group is left wing and they just love to let you hear it. Sometimes i wonder if 80% of the people i know are left wing. It feels like they feel they are the underdog when most news stations are on their side anyway and most of tv.

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Well in short both sides are bad. I've seen or at least been witness to the extremes of both sides and let me tell you they are annoying.

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:
some awesome stuff

MGS, that was an amazing post, and you're my new best friend. Why can't we have more people like you in the US?

So, I'll reply to the now oft-quoted MGS post.

As mentioned, you've only been in this country for two years. If you think that Obama has gotten a massive amount of thoughtless rage, then that's because you missed the George W Bush years. Whatever witch hunt you've been seeing pales in comparison to what it was years ago.

Meanwhile, in the world of foreign policy, Obama didn't do anything of the scope of Bush, but he directed the invasion of more countries, and drastically stepped up Bush's program of illegal drone strikes. And he didn't close gitmo. And he didn't properly stop rendition.

Economically, both Obama and Bush spent trillions of dollars they didn't have for little positive effect, while very little has changed on social issues (at the federal level) since the year 2000.

I mean, they've been basically the same president, and both have been endlessly attacked by lunatics frothing at the mouth. If you've only just tuned in, you'd think that it was all just some anti-obama thing.

The only thing more disheartening is that on the off-chance that Romney wins, it will still be four more years of the last twelve years.

 Ailaros wrote:

Meanwhile, in the world of foreign policy, Obama didn't do anything of the scope of Bush, but he directed the invasion of more countries,

I don't think you know what an invasion is.

OBAMA WON! YAY MY VOTE MATTERED

 flamingkillamajig wrote:
I voted for romney because i hate everybody . I kid but i find it so odd how most my age esp. from europe are nowhere near as right wing as Americans seem to be.

Fixed that for you

Hey what do you all think of my picture? Too soon? Too Much?

Just makes me want to watch Waynes World.

 ShatteredBlade wrote:
Just makes me want to watch Waynes World.

That is not a bad thing.