The problem is this is the real world, not academia! This is not a test, this is survival, ManfM. This is not just the, perhaps, last...... chance to turn the US around, but to stop the destruction that it causes worldwide! It´s not a game to be taken lightly or used as a fancy intellectual vendetta on a whim.
I truly, sincerely, hope you are not serious, or that you will very seriously reconsider. Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. -Charu Saxena.
This is not just the, perhaps, last...... chance to turn the US around, but to stop the destruction that it causes worldwide!
And you really believe that electing Obama will do that?
I'm sorry, I don't.
I've been in this game called politics long enough to know when I'm being played, and that, I believe, is precisely the case here.
Electing Obama will change nothing.
And as for the "moral" obligation to vote for Senator Obama, does electoral relevance also mean that Germans should be forbidden from voting for Die Linke?
Or is the United States the only country who's internal politics should be subject to international condemnation?
I have seen the damage that neo-liberal policies have done to my country, and the only people in the United States who think that this is something new are those who live in protected shells on the coasts who have been largely immune to the consequences of their actions.
Why is it that America is supposed to vote in a milquetoast neo-liberal who may, or may not, oppose further military adventures in order to atone for the world's sins?
As I remember it, there where Spanish troops in those columns that took Baghdad? Did the Spanish people want that?
Why is it that the Spanish and Italians are exempted from this need for public flagellation while the United States is not?
Because our government demanded it? Because there were those who did not fight back?
So we're into collective punishment, now? And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg
Germany is a PR system with multiple parties. Here we have a choice between two candidates. In European terms what you're doing is the equivalent of writing in the Postman's name in the second round of the French presidential election.
