fdsman wrote:I've been thinking lately how violently the media has been reporting on Obama, and how it seems he has already won the race. I'm thinking the outcome of Obama for the next four years is going to turn the United States into a Socialist nation, instead of a land of freedom and liberty. I've been wondering what the "test" will be on the new administration if he is elected, whether it would be an attack on our nation, or something worse.
Post your thoughts.
My views are slightly different. For one i don't think the US will be more socialist (apart from what it already is given the bailout etc.). Obama is taxing those who earn most more and those who earn least less. This way, the ones who will earn most will still be richest, although the gap between the richest and the poor will be smaller. It will still be a huge gap, but it will be smaller. The ones who earn the least will be able to survive the month more easily. Next to that Americans will have more affordable health care where the richest will pay for the health care of the poorest.
I dont know what you mean about 'freedom and liberty'. It has been the Bush administration which has systematically decreased the freedom of Americans through all sorts of legislature designed to fight 'terrorism'.
If you're part of the extremely rich, and you'd like to keep your money, you should vote for McCain. If you're not rich and like to keep your money, you should vote for Obama. I know how McCain has time after time claimed that Obama will redistribute wealth at a cost for the middle class, but that is plain BS. McCain wants reduce taxes for those who need it the least, the most. Why does the billionaire need to pay less taxes, and why does the dirt poor fastfood employee need to pay more? How will having an extra 1 million a year improve the life of a millionaire/billionaire? How will having an extra $500 a month improve the life of a regular poor person? McCain won't help the middle class neither by taxing everyone less and letting the deficit rise to astronomical heights, even further than it is now.
It's fine if you don't like government interferring, neither do i. You just have to see it in perspective. Obama is not socialist or communist. That's ridiculous. He may be slightly more socialist than McCain, but compared to Europe he's a rightwinger.
I've heard everything Obama has been called, from muslim to negro to terrorist. That's all fine, besides that it makes people who say it look like the dumbest people on earth.
But i'm not necessarily *for* Obama, but more against McCain & Palin. First of all because i dont agree with their opinions, second because of their campaigning style and third because of their total incompetence, especially Palin who should be making some man's dinner and clean her kids clothes instead of working at the executive branch of government.
