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cheru — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:40:06 -0000

The Republican party freed the slave, but think of today. Today the Democrat Party is the one more willing to help those in poverty, hence, a lot of slave decendents.

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cheru — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:37:28 -0000

Political idealogy have changed since then. Welcome to the modern world.

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joemama — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:35:21 -0000

Obama is a bad president ,OBAMANATION!

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Grant — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:02:28 -0000

he is a nice man but his ideas in office bother my so fare

P.s
Post som videos they are more interisting and eaier for the visually impered.

thank you for your time

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Warsun99 — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:26:28 -0000

OK for starters I'm going to say i am an African American and i was going to vote for the other guy but because the government offices refused to give me my voters registration card due to me being Afr.Amer i voted for Obama online using my Social Security Number because the government was being a butthole towards me.

They figured just because I'm a Afr.Amer i was going to automatically vote for him. Like when i voted for R.Reagan as a joke an was shocked that he won! But to be frank. Obama is not the idea of what we call a Black American and his administration team is full of people who have made BIG mistakes in there lives.

As for Japan favoritism his election i can say this. I believe they now honestly think Anyone born in American can be a president. Where as before they would have never believed it. Also they see it as No more dealing with the white men! And for those of you who don't know what i mean. They mean being ripped off by white business men. This has happened for years. Constantly being threatened and having there judgements questioned or interrupted by the presidents intentions. Or His staffs intentions.

Believe it or not there are racist people still in politics. Obama i would not say is a racist. However hes not a member of the what you say Black community. He is more of the Cuban culture. Which is NOT Black. Already on TV you are seeing a change in programing.

Where african americans are showing up more often on TV where as in normaly they would only show a poster of a news paper image for about 11 seconds of a African American. Now there being representitives on television all of a suddent. Pretty pathetic huh?

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Jamar — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:23:24 -0000

Actually, there are some 20-odd political parties in America. If everybody decided to search out the party that suited them instead of relying on the media to bring them to the spotlight there'd be less to complain about.
And if you think Obama's socialist, there's actually still a Communist party in America. They never really get any votes, but...

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Erly — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:05:42 -0000

I don't know about everyone else, but I got like 4 free coffees from Starbucks(and a free silver bullet from Babeland-haha) - so I could stay up and watch the election. Except that he won around 8:30 PST... so it was helpful later when thousands of people were throwing a dance party on Capitol Hill, provided with music from Nieghbors... who had moved all of their speakers to the roof. Definitely a night I will remember for a long time.

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St — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 13:08:43 -0000

Michael I'm not really interested in your rather unnuanced analysis of poverty, but you can't twist definitions any way you like. Calling anyone left of the GOP base ("Some call you the elite, I call you my base.") socialist is like calling everybody who is not a member of the CPUSA a libertarian. Obama is not a cultural or an economic leftist, point. Why else do you think the American left (The Nation, Daily Kos, etc. etc...) is already disappointed with his picks for his administration?

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Mary — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:21:10 -0000

I want an Obama burger too.

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altonet — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:18:44 -0000

Awsome Obama burgers! ^___^

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missy — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:30:02 -0000

Oddly enough, I've experienced the exact opposite... : /

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Captain_Ron — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:46:18 -0000

Republican Party that freed the slaves =/= GOP

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Captain_Ron — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:43:55 -0000

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Michael — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:52:12 -0000

You are looking at it from an absolutist viewpoint. Your definition of socialism is a bit skewed too. Socialism, in a general sense just means the means of production is owned by a group, be it a group of people within a larger group, or nationalizing it. It also means, to spread it all around "fairly", even if the individual isn't inputting their fair share of work or resources. This is my problem with it.

IF people could be trusted to do what they could, and trusted to work to better themselves, that would be fine. However, I am sure you have heard the saying "No battle plan survives contact with the enemy", and this is so with socialism. When you tell people that we are implementing a system that will allow them to mooch off of their neighbors hard work, a disgusting number of them were "yanked up" in such a criminally irresponsible manner that they will do just that. This is my problem with socialism. Socialist policies are a resounding theme in the democratic party. Obama is very, very leftist (no matter what you say), and he IS a socialist at heart. Obama is a socialist, and he spoke right to the souls of the people who want to mooch off of other people. They responded in droves, and elected him president. If it weren't for his mobilization of the "no loads" in this country, he would NOT have won.

As for McCain, I may have been a little hasty on the religious nut comment, but he did choose Palin to run alongside him. The republicans are known for their religious zealotry, how many democrats do you see putting yard signs up pushing for the banning of gay marriage? Why is it any of their business what 2 consenting adults do with their life? I tell you why, because they want to legislate from their bible. This generally also includes banning abortion, because the bible says a person is born at conception and has a soul, and this same thing applies to embryonic stem cell research. There are more examples of republicans being unable to legislate from a secular position due to their brainwashing at the pulpit.

Who would I want to have won in the last election? Both sides are corrupt and morally bankrupt, but I would rather take my chance with McCain than Obama. Obama is going to tax my employer into the ground, and cause me to lose my job. All so he can prop up the lazy people who won't even try to better themselves. Hell, I guess if you can't beat them, join them. I'm not sure my pride can take the hit, but its worth a try.

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Eevee — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:32:28 -0000

ahaha. True, but as our neighbours you'd think Americans would be the first to hear. Plus, that would give us a little more publicity, being such a small, never-heard-of country.

Ah yes, Quebec gets quite riled up about Canadian elections, being mistakenly associated with us and all...

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Jomann — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:28:50 -0000

in a way yeah, but also japanese people love black Americans for whatever reason too. And they pretty much avoid white Americans. or at least thats what I've noticed a lot. Go ahead and correct me if I'm wrong.

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Midgarzolom — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:37:17 -0000

JetGo: If you think you can identify historical figures policies by the name of their party only, you are wrong. In fact, the further back you go, the less the party name has any resemblance to today.

Here is an excerpt from Wikipedia on some of Lincoln's policies:

"Thus, he signed the Homestead Act in 1862, making millions of acres of government-held land in the West available for purchase at very low cost. The Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act, also signed in 1862, provided government grants for agricultural universities in each state. The Pacific Railway Acts of 1862 and 1864 granted federal support for the construction of the United States' First Transcontinental Railroad, which was completed in 1869. Other important legislation involved economic matters, including the first income tax and higher tariffs. Also included was the creation of the system of national banks by the National Banking Acts of 1863, 1864, and 1865, which allowed the creation of a strong national financial system. Congress created and Lincoln approved the Department of Agriculture in 1862, although that institution would not become a Cabinet-level department until 1889."

I would laugh if anyone thinks this is the kind of policy that matches today's Republican (the part about income tax should be enough to settle that). If anything, Lincoln would be a Democrat by today's standard. And if we use common sense, it's pretty safe to say that the tree-hugger hippie liberals would be the ones freeing the slaves, not the rednecks shouting "kill the terrorist" at McCain rallies.

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JetGo — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:30:54 -0000

What they don't know is:

Republican = Pro-Japan
Democrat = Pro-China

They should have cheered McCain.

Historically the relationship between Japan and the US were better with republican. Not to forget, it was the democrat who bombed Hiroshima while republicans were against it.

Also don't forget, it was the republicans who freed the slaves. Democrat wanted to keep them.

How sad very little history people know.

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Viet — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:37:55 -0000

Please.. We Americans aren't the only ones that don't care about the Canadian elections :P

The nation of Quebec is the only other nation that really cares. (I kid, I kid. Hopefully that comment gave me some Canadian street cred).

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Eevee — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:00:09 -0000

Hey, how 'bout that Stephen Harper?

xD Sorry, as a Canadian I felt I should put my own country out there. Just for the sake of my Socials class, how about we test some of those stereotypes about Americans? Any of you hear about the Canadian election? Even knew we were having one? What our leader is called? (and I don't mean his name).

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Erisabetsu — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:55:31 -0000

Come on give them a break, they just wanted to find an excuse for party.

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mmnessa — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 20:57:14 -0000

give 'em a break! it's a small town right
for some reason I keep thinking of Tama the Cat...

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JapaneseLivingInTheUS — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 15:30:29 -0000

As Japanese, I am embarrassed about these ppl. They have no clue what Obama's policy is. They have no clue about American politics. They were cheering for Obama for the name sake, for their own PR. That's sad.

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Momiji_Hunny_Bunny — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 12:28:45 -0000

To everyone saying that the americans didnt party hard like the japanese, you guys obviously didnt party @ the right place. I live inbetween 2 hbcu's and I thought the world was gonna explode because they were so loud. lol Yaaaay 4 Obama!

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ArkyLewis — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:36:55 -0000

That's pretty awesome.

Unfortunately over here there hasn't been that big of a deal made over the elections which is a little bit sad :/