1 global financial crisis. 2 disastrous wars. 1 ruined economy.
Don't screw it up a second time.
As a fellow international HN'er who literally do understand this (and, by the way, don't recall having nominated you to speak on my behalf), let me explain this to you, very slowly:
The republican party exists because roughly half of the american population keeps voting for its candidates.
It's a grave mistake to think that all non-US persons believe that Obama would be the best president, or that the Republican party is an aberration.
Gotcha.
I can not agree with your sentiment that because Pakistan does not, America therefore has a right to fly drones into its land to indiscriminately kill.
Rights don't exist - they are merely useful fictions and are subject to "the guy with the guns makes the rules" rule.
To be very surprised then the levels of knowledge would suggest we might get a properly informed vote here sometime.
I hope I'm being too cynical.
Fact is, would voters be European people, Obama would easily win.[1]
[1] http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/11/01/if-europeans-could-vote-...
Most of us gosh-darned foreigners just think the alternative presented is frakking crazy.
When Bush was re-elected, for instance, it was genuinely baffling. Not that there was anything good about Kerry, but... seriously? That guy again? And since then the republicans just seem to have become more and more caricatured. The whole Sarah Palin thing would have been funny if we weren't talking about the upper echelons of politics in America.
When the current incarnation of the GOP becomes normal, I assume the country has much larger problems to deal with.
I am from the UK and literally cannot understand why anyone would want 4 more years of the same. Wars waged, promises broken, drone strikes, trillions and trillions spent, plunging the country further and further into debt.
Not to mention removal of more freedom and civil liberties.
> The Bush Administration asserted both a right and the intention to wage preemptive war, or preventive war. This became the basis for the Bush Doctrine which weakened the unprecedented levels of international and domestic support for the United States which had followed the September 11 attacks.
> Bush Administration manipulated or exaggerated the threat and evidence of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction capabilities would eventually become a major point of criticism for the president.
-- http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush,_George_W
Guess you can't read.
Quit it.
There's a reason you can't name those other parties - it's because they don't matter. I'm just trying to be realistic.
I don't think this thread will serve anyone well by devolving into a political argument.
Obama may be even worse than George Bush on civil liberties: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/dec/...
Even the thought is terrifying.
Obama has proven to be untrustworthy and an enemy to your civil liberties, and yet you want to go another round?
That's what I call a "sucker for punishment".
Can you please explain in brief how George W. Bush was instrumental in causing a global financial meltdown? Which bills from the overwhelmingly Democratic Congress in 2007 did he veto that would have stopped it?