Demonized Phenomenon

[amazingadrian]

I did not vote for Barak Obama.

But he's now the 44th President of the United States, and I'm hoping he can deliver on his message of hope and positive change. He was sworn into office last week.

So I don't know why so many usually intelligent people insist on comparing him to Hitler. Yes, the man's a socialist; but that doesn't automatically make

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[rhanlav]

Awww. But irrational fear and hatred is so.... 'in'. Rush and Sean were fearmongering in the first hours of the presidency of Barack. Expecting some folks to not go crazy with their accusations is about as likely to happen as me telling the tide to turn back. Then I'd ride a winged marshmellow to the sherbert kingdom.

Some things, sadly, never change. But there's still hope.

--Salen

[amazingadrian]

One of my friends pointed out that the real change between the Obama and Bush administrations has been the stance the media takes on them. Obama is obviously a media darling, while Bush was ground under their collective heel.

This may be true to some extent, but people who make this argument don't seem to get that the US is actually worse off since Bush got re-elected; they don't consider that there might be a reason why the media lambasted Bush the way they did. And it sure does not help the other side of the argument when guys like Rush and Sean behave like total moonbats and scream "The sky is falling!" before the new guy has even sat in the Oval Office.

I predict that the Obama presidency will actually be pretty mild. I don't expect those guys to ever apologize for their mindless rants, but I'd bet money they'll be totally red-faced when shown old clips of themselves in the future.

[rhanlav]

Right now, The expectations of Obama are so ludicrously high that theres no way that he can meet the expectations that people have of him right now, least of all inside of 4 years.

No, Obama's time is going to be spent trying to re-establish america's public image as a paragon of virtue as opposed to a tempermental thug, and Trying to get the economy moving again.

As to mcain... I liked the man in the early 2000's but as time went on it became clear that mcain was perfectly willing to cuddle up with an incompetent (some might argue morally bankrupt) president in order to shore up his chances in 2008. These are not qualities I would want in the leader of my nation (But then again, canadian politics is a gumbo of incomptenece and Self righteous claptrap from EVERY ELECTED PARTY. Seriously, it makes canadian politics is 3X the clusterfuck that america's is.)

~Ashla

[amazingadrian]

Yeah, I know. I'm willing to bet that toward the end of his term, the other side is going to try stirring up resentment toward him by saying that he wasn't able to fix [x thing]. Nobody can set the entire country straight in just 4 years time, but I'm holding on to hope that Obama can at least steer us in the right direction, and that whoever takes office after him isn't a complete butthead.

I did not like a lot of McCain's policies for the same reason you cited; I just was never able to put it into those words. I always felt that a McCain presidency would closely mimic a Bush presidency, even though the guy is obviously a lot smarter. It's mostly because the party has gone way off base from its core values, and they're all too complacent with holding power to do anything about it. Of course, there was also the fact that his choice of running mate felt like a token move rather than a serious consideration. His whole campaign was a farce. He might have won if the Republican camp had let him do things his way.

[rhanlav]

The Mcain campaign was an ammusing circus of failures and screw ups that for my money wound up throwing up a smoke screen around a simple truth: Mcain was badly out of touch with reality

[amazingadrian]

Honestly, the first thing that put me off to John McCain was when, very early in his campaign, he promised that he would go to war with Iran. Later on, he joked about it, and still later, when the campaign had gone into full swing, the subject was dropped entirely. But yeah, it gave me an idea of the kind of future we might be looking at under a McCain tenure. Cold War 2.0 is an apt description.

As for the next world power, I'm thinking it might be Russia. China is an economic force, but its ginormous population is starting to put some big pressure on it; especially during these times of global recession.