'Merkin 'lections

[scumdog]

So, who voted for B.O.????

[merv]

Enough of them so it seems. Suppose you are a Ford man and didn't totally appreciate his bailout of GM and Chrysler?

[Kickaha]

They must put something in the water when the elections are on because a big percentage of the Merkin population seems to turn into rabid fanatics

[scumdog]

Enough of them so it seems. Suppose you are a Ford man and didn't totally appreciate his bailout of GM and Chrysler?

Dang tootin' right there Merv!

[sil3nt]

It's all bullshit anyway.

[skippa1]

So, who voted for B.O.????

isnt a merkin a pubic wig? Do we have to vote for them?

[scumdog]

isnt a merkin and pubic wig? Do we have to vote for them?

Dunno why.

Bit I'd vote for that one!

[Madness]

I'm glad that other fella didn't get in. He's like a shifty version of Guy Smiley.

[SMOKEU]

I wanted Obama to win all along, otherwise I'd be called a racist if I thought otherwise.

[BoristheBiter]

I'm glad that other fella didn't get in. He's like a shifty version of Guy Smiley.

God no, Obama is SOOOO boring at least the other guy would have been fun to laugh at.
It's not like it will make any difference anyway

[pete376403]

Obama boring? maybe, but after reading this blog about what Romney stands for, I guess enough people considered boring was the lesser of the two evils.
By Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog
04 November 12
By now, in these last remaining days before the election of 2012, we have learned enough about the beliefs of the Republican presidential candidate to see them as a worldview all its own – a kind of creed that explains Mitt Romney. Those who say he has no principles are selling him short.
Despite its contradictions and ellipses, Romneyism has an internal coherence. It is different from conservatism, because it does not intend to conserve or protect any particular institutions or values. It is also distinct from Republicanism, in that it is not rooted in traditional small-town American values, nationalism, or states’ rights.
The ten guiding principles of Romneyism are:
1. Corporations are the basic units of society. Corporations are people, and the overriding purpose of an economy is to maximize corporate profits. When profits are maximized, the economy grows fastest. This growth benefits everyone in the form greater output, better products and services, and higher share prices.

2. Workers are a means to the goal of maximizing corporate profits. If workers do not contribute to that goal, they should be fired. If they cannot then find other work that helps maximize profits in another company, their wages must be too high, and they must therefore accept steadily lower wages until they find a job.

3. All factors of production – capital, physical plant and equipment, workers – are fungible and should be treated the same. Any that fail to deliver high competitive returns should be replaced or discarded. This keeps an economy efficient. Fairness is and should be irrelevant.

4. Pollution, unsafe products, unsafe working conditions, financial fraud, and other negative side effects of the pursuit of profits are the price society pays for profit-driven growth. They should not be used as excuses to constrain the pursuit of profits through regulation.

5. Individual worth depends on net worth — how much money one has made, and the value of the assets that money has been invested in. Any person with enough intelligence and ambition can make a fortune. Failure to do so is sign of moral and intellectual inferiority.

6. People who fail in the economy should not be coddled. They should not receive food stamps, Medicaid, or any other form of social subsidy. Coddling leads to a weaker society and a weaker economy.

7. Taxes are inherently bad because they constrain profit-making. It is the right and responsibility of individuals and corporations to exploit every tax loophole they (and their tax attorneys) can find in order to pay the lowest taxes possible.

8. Politics is a game whose only purpose is to win. Any means used to win the game is legitimate even if it involves lying and cheating, as long as it gains more supporters than it loses.

9. Democracy is dangerous because it is forever vulnerable to the votes of a majority intent on capturing the wealth of the successful minority, on whom the economy depends. The rich must therefore do whatever is necessary to prevent the majority from exercising its will, including spending large sums of money on lobbyists and political campaigns. The most virtuous among the rich will go a step further and run for president.

10. The three most important aspects of life are family, religion, and money. Patriotism is a matter of guarding our economy from unfair traders and undocumented immigrants, rather than joining together for the common good. We owe nothing to one another as citizens of the same society.

(john Key probably wishes he could get away with a manifesto along these lines)

[unstuck]

Nuke the fuckin lot of em.

[BoristheBiter]

some rantintg....

That was the rantings of some anti-capilest by the looks.
Spent as much time reading that as I did caring about who was going to win.

Nuke the fuckin lot of em.

Now that is the correct answer

[Paul in NZ]

The mere fact that a successful Mormon stood for the presidency of the USA and came within a whisker is a worry. By its nature this is a fundamentalist and expansionist religion dedicated to recruiting as many members as possible and it is NOT a religion of tolerance, arguably due to its history.

I'm sure that Mr Romney saw himself as a good man and given the scrutiny of the media its safe to assume there are no half eaten babies in his past but I could never get past his religion and the influence this moral compass would have over foreign policy decisions.

America is undergoing a great change. Its society is polarizing and its great middle class diminishing. Whether it becomes one of histories great democracies or collapses into tyranny is going to make interesting watching. Personally, I'd say give it another 50 years and watch out for another Caesar to appear on the scene and we will have the new Rome. (if China can be convinced to make the uniforms on tick)

[Tigadee]

(if China can be convinced to make the uniforms on tick)

If they can make these, I'm sure they can make togas...