Thread: Who will you vote for? UPDATED

That's because today's politics aren't about dealing with the issues but how well you can dance around them....

Originally Posted by SolSkye

That's because today's politics aren't about dealing with the issues but how well you can dance around them....

Ya its called PR or spin. Today ever politician/government official and people who have to deal with the media are trained in it.

Basically its the art of being asked a question and then not answering the question but not to let the asker know it.

The biased media spin. That's another problem in itself. Any reporter working for a major news network that calls themselves a real journalist in this day and age is a lying sack of sh:t. It's more entertainment now, than news. All networks have their agendas, and they propagandize and control too many of the options and over how people think. So much so, that even rational intelligent people can fall prey to it if they sit in front of that box one too many times. We are creatures of habit, after all. You start to see it again and again and again, and suddenly you find yourself actually starting to believe the shit they spin.

Example: They blackout Ron Paul a few months before super tuesday despite the growing strength of his campaign, and all of sudden the average joe has never heard of him or thinks he's no longer a viable candidate come election time. Yet, the media gives the illusion of support to the clearly fringe and unelectable candidate Huckabee (with the least support and money raised) in order to create the illusion of fairness and showing that small guys still having a shot. Just imagine if they'd actually given Ron Paul the same coverage they gave Huckabee. He might've been neck and neck with McCain right about now. But, allowing that would be too dangerous. We can't have another questioning JFK-type in office. Meh. At least he got his message out to a few people and stopped a few other candidates campaigns dead in the water along the way.

Oh well, I suppose when you have that much power and control it'd be retarded not to use it to protect yourself from losing it, so hats off to them. Touché.

Originally Posted by Elis D.

You seem to be insistent on this fact... you are joking, right?

Uh.. No?

I thought that was plain common knowledge

Originally Posted by ranma187

statements contain arguments, or at least are the results of arguments. prepare to be challenged. I speak my mind.

for those of you who have watched the Chappells Show don't you think barack obama sounds alot like dave chappels white guy impersanation or dave chappels police officer impersanation?

Hmm...

He seems to act more like Joel Osteen. Like he ust studied him, then imitated him.

Originally Posted by Seismosaur

Uh.. No?

I thought that was plain common knowledge

He's not Muslim at all.
His father was raised Muslim, but he's an atheist. His stepfather wasn't religious neither is his mother.
He's a Christian. Unless he's been setting up an alibi since at least 1988.

From WIKI.

In Chapter 6 of the book, titled "Faith," Obama writes that he "was not raised in a religious household." He describes his mother, raised by non-religious parents, as detached from religion, yet "in many ways the most spiritually awakened person that I have ever known." He describes his Kenyan father as "raised a Muslim," but a "confirmed atheist" by the time his parents met, and his Indonesian stepfather as "a man who saw religion as not particularly useful." The chapter details how Obama, in his twenties, while working with local churches as a community organizer, came to understand "the power of the African American religious tradition to spur social change":

It was because of these newfound understandings—that religious commitment did not require me to suspend critical thinking, disengage from the battle for economic and social justice, or otherwise retreat from the world that I knew and loved—that I was finally able to walk down the aisle of Trinity United Church of Christ one day and be baptized.

He joined Trinity United Church of Christ in 1988. A megachurch with 10,000 members, Trinity is the largest congregation in the United Church of Christ.

What difference should it make if he is muslim?

None.

It makes a difference when he is an extremist muslim. Which he is lol.