Congrats To Our US Friends

Started by Textra1, November 05, 2008, 01:39:11 AM

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It's looking like Barack Obama is going to take the Presidency now. Congrats to all in the US. You can finally say to your international friends, 'We have an intelligent leader again.' There are many of us here in Australia who are also happy that Obama has been elected over McCain. America being the only remaining super-power means that its internal elections have a real and measurable effect on the rest of the world. Bush's run proved that. What was most scary was that had McCain been elected, that blond creationist bimbo would have been a old man's heart-beat away from the Presidency. I can tell you the perception of the USA here is already that of a bible thumping theocracy, which is unfair I know, but having an evolution denying old man and an abstinence only creationist dimwit at the helm would have pushed it right over the edge.

You guys have without a doubt one of the greatest and most well written constitutions is the world. The people who created it were great thinkers and secular visionaries. It has been very sad to watch it being used as toilet paper over the course of the last decade by a stammering fool who created policy by communing with his imaginary friend. In the 20th Century, the US was the most scientifically advanced nation in the world. So far this century it has back-slid considerably. I hope that your new President can help to reverse that trend and help lead the world into a second enlightenment.

Oh my god! This is fantastic! The doomsday fundies are going to go nuts now!

Quote from: Textra1 on November 05, 2008, 01:39:11 AMYou guys have without a doubt one of the greatest and most well written constitutions is the world.

Yeah, it's just too bad that the only candidates who actually care about it couldn't get more than 1% of the vote...

Quote from: MrBogosity on November 05, 2008, 06:35:43 AM
Yeah, it's just too bad that the only candidates who actually care about it couldn't get more than 1% of the vote...


Such is the way of implicit or explicit two party systems. The right people for the job never actually get elected. We have the same trouble here.

We have a lot of stupid people in this country.

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Quote from: BZ987654 on November 05, 2008, 07:36:59 AM
We have a lot of stupid people in this country.

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It's not the rise of socialism in this country; that happened in the 1930s.

Quote from: MrBogosity on November 05, 2008, 08:07:05 AM
It's not the rise of socialism in this country; that happened in the 1930s.

Yeah, I was just laughing at someone getting so worked over a candidate that she thought she wouldn't have to worry about "putting gas in her" or "paying her mortgage." It's very depressing.