Thread: US Elections Part Two

Depends on what your priorities are, the crisis with our economy or entertaining the dinner crowd at Nuri's

That would be breakfast crowd. The dinner crowd will be in the states! :P

Bloody Mary's instead of Martinis :oops:

Yep,
That's what we need, a couple of liars verbally slugging it out in the public arena. All it will decide is who is the most persuasive liar. Talk about ridiculous, two presidential candidates in a virtual dead heat, having meetings with "little bush" supposedly about saving our souls but the real subject of their discussions is how to divide the spoils amongst themselves. Real lousy theater performed by half-ass thespians.
These bums don't give a damn about their constituents, it's just another opportunity for them to line their pockets with gold and garner more of the political power they crave. That's it, in a nutshell and nothing more.

Interesting, isn’t it, how Sarah Palin isn’t mentioned much in our continued political discussions. Could it be that most Republicans are embarrassed by being pulled into, and entrapped by a circus act? Shall I use the word, gullible?

As I write, McCain has less than 12 hours to show up in Mississippi. Maybe I’ll have to wear my “Chicken George” outfit to Nuris tomorrow morning, changing the name George, to John.

This circus is being orchestrated by the Republican party. The extent of this circus and its desired effect on the American people should be taken as a monumental insult, but sadly, it isn’t.

The drama continues, and who isn’t speechless as we all watch it unfold?

Alright already, I'm monumentally insulted and embarrassed! If I were speechless, it would be due to shame. The people who share my feelings on this issue are the true minority.
Both parties are guilty of turning this into a circus. It's painful to watch all the vultures on BOTH SIDES, squabble over the corpse of the US economy, at this point it's degenerated into a shouting match about who gets to jump out of the plane with a golden parachute and who gets to free fall all the way down.
In the end, each and every tax paying citizen will be forced to fork over nearly $3,000 to cover the expense of this intentional malfeasance. The other night I was listening to NPR on my way home and they were interviewing two loan officers who used to work for Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Loan officers were told they weren't allowed ask an applicant if they were in possession of a green card. A GREEN CARD FOR CHRIST SAKES!!!!!!!!
When the wife and I applied for just a simple, no frills home loan, the only thing the mortgage lender DIDN'T ask for was blood work and a strip search.

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You don't have lobbist working day & night for you Sumatra, only your local representative.
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Just back from watching the debate in the company of great friends and fellow expats, the general assessment can be noted:

1) McCain appeared desperate, and was patronizing to Obama...he has no class.

2) Obama let the patronizing flow off his back like water on a duck...he has total class.

3) While foreign policy is supposed to be McCain’s long suit, he failed to come out better than a tie with Obama on those issues.

4) Classic stupid line goes to McCain...“do you know that south Koreans are on average three inches taller than the north Koreans?” That line brought the house down!

We expected great entertainment, and we got some of that. McCain lives in the past with little concern to the future, and Obama is a visionary with truly new ideas that can change our future.

Next week is the main entertainment event....Biden and Palin. If Palin is lucky, maybe someone on her side will have explained to her that the proximity of Alaska to Russia just doesn’t add up to one rupiah worth of foreign policy experience.

I see McCain as calm, cool and collected.

I didn't know that it'd take class to solve problems of terrorism, financial disaster, health care in America.

Obama was rattled, wet-behind-his-bat-ears and stuttering, regardless of his scholar language. I don't see why noone seemed to notice that he hit the mike even.
And he kept saying: " Senator McCain is right" like 20 times!

Just my two-cent again.

I saw the debate and it was laughable...I think the US needs to revise it's election system..this farce goes on for far too long.

Thorsten...I think it would be very hard for Obama to blame the current mortgage crisis on the republicans...it started way before their tenure with poor control of the credit vs. debit balance and is merely a result of the financial institutions reaping the rewards of poor management and control over a long period of time...it's a bit like the Labour party in the UK taking the credit for the UK consistently being the top European economy in the 90's and early 00's...the sound economic foundation was put in place by the Conservatives in the 80's...

...interesting that neither of the two hopeful's have put forward a robust plan to stop this from happening again isn't it?

I think we are rapidly getting into a debate about who is the best of a bad bunch...I support Obama then, McCain can't think and speak at the same time...