Do you guys REALLY think Obama is right for President?

Gold Xf · **Posted:** Fri Oct 10, 2008 8:54 pm

If so, please, convince me why he is. Convince me that he's better in any category than John McCain.

Also, one of the most important things I'd like you guys to do is convince me why THIS would be a good idea:

Gold Xf wrote:

nosebleed wrote:

I'm worried we're going to elect another person *cough* Republican *cough* that will fuck up our economy even more. This not a good situation we're in fellow Americans.

I call bullshit. Democrats aren't going to help a fucking bit. Do you know how many extra fucking taxes Obama wants to impose? That alone could cause the economy to collapse.

Capital Gains Tax:

McCain: 0% on home sales up to $500,000 (no change).

Obama: 28% on profit from ALL home sales

Dividend Tax:

McCain: 15% (no change)

Obama: 39.6%

Income Tax:

McCain: (no changes)

Single making 30k - tax $4,500
Single making 50k - tax $12,500
Single Making 75k - tax $18,750
Married making 60k - tax $9,000
Married making 75k - tax $18,750
Married making 125k - tax $31,250

Obama: (reversion to pre-Bush tax cuts)

Single making 30k - tax $8,400
Single making 50k - tax $14,000
Single making 75k - tax $23,250
Married making 60k - tax $16,800
Married making 75k - tax $21,000
Married making 125k - tax $38,750

Inheritance Tax:

McCain: 0% (No change, Bush repealed this tax)

Obama: Restore the inheritance tax

New Taxes Being Proposed by Obama:
*New government taxes proposed on homes that are moer than 2400 square feet.
*New gasoline taxes (as if gas weren't high enough already!)
*New taxes on retirement accounds, and last but not least...
*New taxes to pay for socialized medicine, so we can receive the same level of medical care as other third world countries

How does this affect you?

nosebleed · **Posted:** Fri Oct 10, 2008 9:06 pm

Can't rebuild an economy without spending money, right? How can McCain rebuild our economy by funding a 2 wars?

meister · **Joined:** Tue May 27, 2008 1:48 am **Posts:** 1977

nosebleed wrote:

Can't rebuild an economy without spending money, right? How can McCain rebuild our economy by funding a 2 wars?

Obama is the first to tell you he wants to send troops to Pakistan. Just because he doesn't support the war in Iraq doesn't mean it won't still be there when he's in office.

Disclaimer: Not a McCain supporter. If these two are the best candidates America can produce, then we are truly doomed as a nation.

Canuck · **Posted:** Fri Oct 10, 2008 9:38 pm

If you're gonna make a title that encompasses an entire election, you should at least include more than one argument.

Gold Xf · **Posted:** Fri Oct 10, 2008 10:32 pm

CanuckGamer wrote:

If you're gonna make a title that encompasses an entire election, you should at least include more than one argument.

The purpose of this thread is for you guys to convince me that Obama is not a complete joke excuse for President.

mscupcakes · **Posted:** Fri Oct 10, 2008 10:35 pm

If I was American I'd vote for him based on the fact that he's 100% for Net Neutrality where McCain isn't at all

Gold Xf · **Posted:** Fri Oct 10, 2008 11:49 pm

snake91 wrote:

If I was American I'd vote for him based on the fact that he's 100% for Net Neutrality where McCain isn't at all

Evidence please?

nosebleed · **Posted:** Sat Oct 11, 2008 2:05 am

This seems more like a "I know a lot about McCain and am going to shoot you liberal Democrats down" thread than a "please inform me" thread. It's just the vibe I am getting off you.

ClassyManSmiles · **Joined:** Mon Jun 09, 2008 1:32 pm **Posts:** 591

Gold Xf wrote:

snake91 wrote:

If I was American I'd vote for him based on the fact that he's 100% for Net Neutrality where McCain isn't at all

Evidence please?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-mW1qccn8k <---Evidence

OldManSinclair · **Posted:** Sat Oct 11, 2008 4:29 am

meister wrote:

Obama is the first to tell you he wants to send troops to Pakistan.

There is already a huge movement of CIA troops in Pakistan. It's part of a clean sweep operation in Afghanistan. Patraus was moved to Afghanistan to lead the troops towards Pakistan with almost a scorched earth policy. While the US Army is sweeping towards the mountains, The CIA troops, equipped with a sniper or two each are moving from inside Pakistan to Afghanistan, thus trapping Osama Bin Laden and killing a lot of Al Queda operatives. Source, Democracy Now, the only independent news broadcast in our nation.

As far as Obama goes, I hope that once he gets in office, I'm predicting his win as a part of theory I've developed, that he pulls the tape off his mouth and gives the middle finger to the Democratic Party and becomes the person he was before accepting the nomination.

McCain's education policy destroyed any chance of me voting Republican this round. Not to mention I can't vote for a VP who says that the Iraqi War is charge from God. Although I am impressed with her as an individual, being a moose hunter and all. I just don't think that Palin would make a good president if McCain were to die in office.

Personally, I'm voting Libertarian this year, and I'm in Texas so you know what my vote is worth. I don't recommend anyone ever voting for the Green party, again, due to their educational views.

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Disclaimer: Not a McCain supporter. If these two are the best candidates America can produce, then we are truly doomed as a nation.

We are fucked as a nation. Fix the educational system so it teaches people to be cognitive thinkers and the majority of the world's problems will begin to disappear.

Kaiserhawk · **Posted:** Sat Oct 11, 2008 10:44 am

No one voting for Nader?

Gold Xf · **Posted:** Sat Oct 11, 2008 12:58 pm

ClassyManSmiles wrote:

Gold Xf wrote:

snake91 wrote:

If I was American I'd vote for him based on the fact that he's 100% for Net Neutrality where McCain isn't at all

Evidence please?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-mW1qccn8k <---Evidence

That's a plus. Evidence on McCain being against net Neutrality please? This is the only good thing that I've heard out of Obama's mouth. Also, for the guy above who said McCain's education plan is bad, what makes you think OBAMA's plan is GOOD? He thinks that political accuracy is more important than the actual shit we're learning in school right now.

nosebleed wrote:

This seems more like a "I know a lot about McCain and am going to shoot you liberal Democrats down" thread than a "please inform me" thread. It's just the vibe I am getting off you.

No, that's not the point of this thread. It just blows my mind how people think that Obama's the best thing since sliced bread, and they treat McCain and Palin like a bag of shit. Maybe there is SOME reason in it? Just maybe? That's what I'm looking for out of this thread.

The main thing I have against Obama is what his ideas are like; they sound good IN THEORY, but when I stop to think about what would happen IN PRACTICE, it just doesn't work out, and it becomes a huge mess.

nosebleed · **Posted:** Sat Oct 11, 2008 3:21 pm

Gold Xf wrote:

Evidence on McCain being against net Neutrality please?

I'll just put up the link. I didn't watch the whole thing yet since it's loading EXTREMELY fucking slow on my computer for some reason but at least it's the otherside of the arguement. From what I've gathered so far it's though he hasn't made a stance on the issue.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RouqKajvkgQ

Gold Xf · **Posted:** Sat Oct 11, 2008 3:44 pm

nosebleed wrote:

Gold Xf wrote:

Evidence on McCain being against net Neutrality please?

I'll just put up the link. I didn't watch the whole thing yet since it's loading EXTREMELY fucking slow on my computer for some reason but at least it's the otherside of the arguement. From what I've gathered so far it's though he hasn't made a stance on the issue.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RouqKajvkgQ

Yeah, he hasn't really established a stance on the issue, but you know what? The Internet isn't THE most important thing in the world, and it shouldn't be at the top of the list of issues that need to be solved in America, because right now, the internet is fine the way it is. It's just not something that we should be focusing on at this point in time.

mscupcakes · **Posted:** Sat Oct 11, 2008 4:12 pm

Gold Xf wrote:

The main thing I have against Obama is what his ideas are like; they sound good IN THEORY, but when I stop to think about what would happen IN PRACTICE, it just doesn't work out, and it becomes a huge mess.

Can you give us some examples?

Gold Xf · **Posted:** Sat Oct 11, 2008 4:57 pm

snake91 wrote:

Gold Xf wrote:

The main thing I have against Obama is what his ideas are like; they sound good IN THEORY, but when I stop to think about what would happen IN PRACTICE, it just doesn't work out, and it becomes a huge mess.

Can you give us some examples?

National health care. Plenty of people who don't have it don't pay taxes, have nice cars, iPods, computers, etc, but they just choose not to pay for health care. What this is going to amount to is LINES at the hospitals, and the wrong people are going to be there, abusing it, and getting in the way of the people who really need to get into the care of doctors, etc. Anyways, the money that we'd be paying the government for said health care would be more than if we just paid for it ourselves, and assholes who don't even abide by the rules are going to get all the benefits.

Demon Gate · **Posted:** Sat Oct 11, 2008 5:59 pm

Gold Xf wrote:

The purpose of this thread is for you guys to convince me that Obama is not a complete joke excuse for President.

Why? It sounds like you've already made up your mind.

Phil · **Posted:** Sat Oct 11, 2008 9:36 pm

meister wrote:

Disclaimer: Not a McCain supporter. If these two are the best candidates America can produce, then we are truly doomed as a nation.

why cant I help but think the same for Canada...

but yes, in times of decline, a country shouldnt put up with an average, or below average political head. it needs something to pull the country out of the red, and into the green. Neither presidential candidate have the potential to do that, but McCain will atleast make the chaos flood not so quickly.

Tuuba · **Joined:** Mon Jun 23, 2008 12:59 am **Posts:** 10

OldManSinclair wrote:

meister wrote:

Obama is the first to tell you he wants to send troops to Pakistan.

There is already a huge movement of CIA troops in Pakistan. It's part of a clean sweep operation in Afghanistan. Patraus was moved to Afghanistan to lead the troops towards Pakistan with almost a scorched earth policy. While the US Army is sweeping towards the mountains, The CIA troops, equipped with a sniper or two each are moving from inside Pakistan to Afghanistan, thus trapping Osama Bin Laden and killing a lot of Al Queda operatives. Source, Democracy Now, the only independent news broadcast in our nation.

As far as Obama goes, I hope that once he gets in office, I'm predicting his win as a part of theory I've developed, that he pulls the tape off his mouth and gives the middle finger to the Democratic Party and becomes the person he was before accepting the nomination.

McCain's education policy destroyed any chance of me voting Republican this round. Not to mention I can't vote for a VP who says that the Iraqi War is charge from God. Although I am impressed with her as an individual, being a moose hunter and all. I just don't think that Palin would make a good president if McCain were to die in office.

Personally, I'm voting Libertarian this year, and I'm in Texas so you know what my vote is worth. I don't recommend anyone ever voting for the Green party, again, due to their educational views.

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Disclaimer: Not a McCain supporter. If these two are the best candidates America can produce, then we are truly doomed as a nation.

We are fucked as a nation. Fix the educational system so it teaches people to be cognitive thinkers and the majority of the world's problems will begin to disappear.

Honestly... I cant believe you americans STILL believe in that Osama bullshit.. c'mon. You probably still think you guys are killing people IF Iraq because of the WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION OMFG

But anyways, Nader > Obama > Mcain

Crittbeast · **Joined:** Tue May 27, 2008 1:58 pm **Posts:** 1186

Tuuba wrote:

Honestly... I cant believe you americans STILL believe in that Osama bullshit.. c'mon. You probably still think you guys are killing people IF Iraq because of the WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION OMFG

But anyways, Nader > Obama > Mcain

It's not just about Osama Bin Laden anymore.

He is just sort of the face of Al Queda. Now, obviously, it isn't about WMDs anymore, more so fighting the whole war on terror.

I haven't heard people say shit about WMDs in YEARS.

Bin Laden isn't a person anymore. He's just a generalization used to give a face to Al Queda as a whole.

SO OMFG! It isn't that difficult to understand.

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