Well, no politician lives up to their promises. And with the amount of hope invested in Obama, no way can the guy be anything but a bit of a disappointment if he wins. That's just the way of things.
The Iraq withdrawal thing, though, hmm. Didn't McCain also say he'd be willing to stay in there for a hundred years if it got the job done? I hear you on how long it could take, though. The UK's meant to be hauling ass out of there soon but they're taking their sweet time - you can't get out of a country overnight. Still. It seems just natural to me that a Republican president is likely to be more gung-ho than a Democratic one. Ideology, again. The links, though, I ain't too sure. The NY Post is a reasonable source, but it's an op-ed. And I'd as soon believe World Net Daily as believe a tramp yelling at me in the street that aliens are beaming signals into his brain. Same other way round, of course - I'd hardly expect you to be at all swayed if I tried to back up an argument using a blog post from Daily Kos or Pandagon. Not that I'm writing it off entirely, just taking it all with a pinch of salt. (And I find it hard to believe that negative stuff about Obama is underreported given how conservative the US television news networks are. But then, I imagine you think it's got a liberal bias. Grass is always greener, isn't it? It's about like how nobody here can decide if the purportedly impartial BBC are actually reactionary tools of the establishment or raving communists.)
Um, anyway. That went on kind of long. But points accepted and taken on board, if not agreed with. I wasn't expecting to convince you of anything, after all.
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Date: 16 October 2008 18:20 (UTC)The Iraq withdrawal thing, though, hmm. Didn't McCain also say he'd be willing to stay in there for a hundred years if it got the job done?
I hear you on how long it could take, though. The UK's meant to be hauling ass out of there soon but they're taking their sweet time - you can't get out of a country overnight.
Still. It seems just natural to me that a Republican president is likely to be more gung-ho than a Democratic one. Ideology, again.
The links, though, I ain't too sure. The NY Post is a reasonable source, but it's an op-ed. And I'd as soon believe World Net Daily as believe a tramp yelling at me in the street that aliens are beaming signals into his brain. Same other way round, of course - I'd hardly expect you to be at all swayed if I tried to back up an argument using a blog post from Daily Kos or Pandagon. Not that I'm writing it off entirely, just taking it all with a pinch of salt.
(And I find it hard to believe that negative stuff about Obama is underreported given how conservative the US television news networks are. But then, I imagine you think it's got a liberal bias. Grass is always greener, isn't it? It's about like how nobody here can decide if the purportedly impartial BBC are actually reactionary tools of the establishment or raving communists.)
Um, anyway. That went on kind of long. But points accepted and taken on board, if not agreed with. I wasn't expecting to convince you of anything, after all.