And they will all be mosques, obviously.
Regards,
Shodan
Please! How could he abolish religion while he’s trying to forcibly convert us all to Islam?
That’s so adorable! It’s almost like you’re a real country!
We will have a lot more bank failures in the next few months. McCain will do nothing to fix the economy, he is one of them. How high can the national debt get. He may show us. 250,000 foreclosures a month, can’t wait to see how bad that can get.
War ,I can’t wait, bomb ,bomb, bomb, bomb Iran. He is another old war mongering fuck . Too rich and too old to be able to relate to the common folk.
The cut taxes and spend,spend, spend party will have a ball. Maybe they can get Harriet Miers on the court this time. We need some more ultra conservatives to remove that pesky bill of rights from the perfect Constitution. And lets stop all abortions. The government is qualified to make all decisions about your life.
Yeah, they even got a two party system - Moosehead vs. Molson
I will be cautiously optimistic. I am not likely to vote for him, but given the ranks of the GOP he is a good candidate. I most fervently hope that he succeeds in reforming the government earmark and spending system, and I will be terribly dissapointed if the Democratic congress is the force that prevents that from happening. Unlike when George Bush was elected, when I ‘knew’ Kerry and Gore were better votes, I fear that Obama will not be the right choice and I will be seriously conflicted about voting for him.
For the first time in my adult life, I’ll be proud of my country.
Just like the Republican opposition in Congress has so far prevented the Dems from marshalling enough votes to do much of anything.
Since we’re in the Pit, I think I can rant here a little bit. Over the past couple of days I’ve heard an awful lot about small-town, white picket fence values that are supposed to be the heart and soul of this country. But I’d like to hear someone speak up about big-city issues like crime, mass transit, and tenants’ rights. One would almost think you had to be a property owner or business proprietor to have any rights whatsoever. Oh wait a minute…that’s about how it is, when your employer can fire you for something you blogged at home on your free time. Or for being careless enough to post a picture of yourself acting goofy (read: drunk) while on Spring Break, five years ago while you were still in college. I’ve grumbled about this sort of thing for years but wasn’t sure there was anything there to gripe about. Maybe it was just liberal scaremongering. Then just yesterday, I happened to be reading the CareerBuilder.com website, and they mentioned just this sort of thing being done to people. Of course, they simply cheerfully tell you to watch what you say, so you can get or keep that coveted job, without considering the ethics of the matter. In the 1920s Henry Ford was notorious for having employees spied upon, and then fired for such infractions as off-hours drinking. But one presumes his detectives actually needed to see an employee hoisting one in a speakeasy. Now the boss can just troll the Web…
Considering our financial situation, I will probably have to hang on a while and see how McCain’s administration’s party plays out. If he goes to war with Iran, I will give serious consideration to expatriating.
I have gone on record publicly saying that I don’t believe, in my heart of hearts, that Obama will win. I don’t think the citizens of this fine nation are ready to pull the lever for a black man named Hussein. So I’ll be sad and resigned.
I don’t expect Obama to win and have already resigned myself to a McCain victory so I’ll just sigh knowingly and go on with life. That said, I agree with those that are saying they’ll be relieved that we at least no longer have Bush in office.
I was just discussing this with my wife this evening. My assurance to her was that although McCain being elected would be bad for the country, for us as individuals it would not be so bad. At some point you’ve gotta say, “What the hell, it doesn’t hurt me.”
Can’t he do both?
I won’t be devastated if McCain wins. I still hold out hope that he will be much better than Bush.
I will just pray that the old McCain still exists, and that he has only been pandering to the extreme religious right lately in order to get elected.
Also, I fear change like anyone else. Even if the country continues its downward spiral, at least it will be a comfortable, familiar downward spiral.
Yep. The Bush admin has actually been a boon for some people financially.
My family’s money is in oil. Let’s put it this way: My inheritance was growing at a healthy clip back when oil was $15/barrel and my mother’s not getting any younger and Republicans will kill the inheritance tax again.
So, by that measure I could say that Republicans in office are super for me.
It’s just that I want to make sure everyone can have what I got by an accident of birth: access to a good education, access to health care, and equal rights in all ways with my heterosexual self.
The real reactions that matter aren’t ours, but those of our counterparts all over the world. It’s no surprise that the world is watching us: when a nation can be spontaneously invaded by-- or the ice caps can be sacrificed by-- the mandate of one country’s leader, of course other countries are going to take an interest in who that leader is.
Bush 2000, we had the benefit of the doubt. Bush 2004, we were looking awfully dumb. McCain 2008, I’m afraid three strikes will mean we’re out.
I don’t think Obama’s victory is a sure thing. Quite the opposite actually considering that my confidence hasn’t recovered from Bush’s re-election. I won’t be able to relax until the results are announced.
If McCain wins, I will be disappointed but I’m not going to start howling mournfully at the moon or anything. I’ll save that for when/if Palin ever gets the the top job.
I will be disappointed no matter who wins, since neither of them are the type of person I want at the helm. Obama will be too free with our money, McCain with the lives of our troops.
shrug
I stayed here for the last eight years, I have no problem staying four more.
'course, I was here while Clinton was president, I’d still be here if Obama won, but it makes a nice conversation starter.
I’ll hope that shortly after Mac strokes out, one of the left-wing Supreme Court Justices has to resign, & the Democratic Congress wilts before President Palin’s insistence on appointing a pro-life justice. Then some “red state” mounts a challenge to Roe v. Wade, & the SC either throws abortion law back to the states or betrays the hopes of a generation of rightie activists.
If abortion is no longer protected by case law, I see us returning to a long fight that Roe cut short, at the end of which some kind of abortion rights are undoubtedly guaranteed by every state constitution, & it finally gets through the thick heads of the right-to-life movement that they can’t win this fight.
If the SC punts, I will rub my pro-life GOP friends faces in it. It was a trick to get their votes all along, as I have thought for years.