Politics as seen from afar…
Monday, April 14th, 2008Hillary Clinton is annoying me and I don’t even live in the US. Theories that she is attempting to sabotage the Democrats’ election chances if she can’t win the nomination are starting to seem less far-fetched (the logic being that she can try again in four years after a disastrous McCain first term).
Just recently she decided to call Obama elitist since he refers to the bitterness and frustration of certain working class people. Speaking as someone who had to put up with a conservative government who took to labelling underpaid left-leaning secondary school teachers as elitist, this marks her as a total bitch in my books; it’s mere pandering to the anti-intellectual crowd, most of whom who wouldn’t vote Democrat anyway, and it also makes no sense for one mega rich presidential candidate to refer to another in this way— Pot… Kettle. etc.
PS I wish there could be some kind of representation for "the rest of the world" when you elect your presidents/administrations over there, because every fucked up Decision they make cause problems for us non-citizens as well, and a truly democratic leadership should be elected by ALL those whose lives they directly affect (including prisoners and convicted felons). How about 1 vote for every 100 foreigners? That would give the rest of the world the democratic power of about 40 million Americans— is that so much to ask?
April 15th, 2008 at 12:05 am
Clinton is a conservative jackass. I try to stay away from the “b” word, because a lot of pseudo-feminists are calling anyone against her anti-feminist, and I don’t need to genderise my insult anyway.
Unfortunately, wanting non-American votes to count is too much to ask. At least according to a lot of Americans. “It’s OUR country, keep them liberal foreigners away!” (just so you know, “liberal” basically means “anyone who disagrees with our extremist views.”
I think American citizens should have the voting privilege taken away from them (given what so many of them do with it anyway), and given to 300 million foreigners.
April 15th, 2008 at 4:40 am
That’s funny… I think American citizens should have the voting right handed BACK to them. Curious to see if there’s yet another vote counting scandal.
April 19th, 2008 at 10:45 am
From an American:
I think America is like Microsoft. The country / company everyone loves to hate. Sometimes we deserve it, sometimes we don’t.
Don’t forget that Americans, as a culture, have done a lot to advance knowledge in the world but I do agree that we have become arrogant in our actions at times. (The Bush administration’s hubris is a shining example).
The last two presidential terms have been very trying for me personally as I strongly opposed our actions after the world trade center tragedy. Basically, I am against the idea of fighting in general as it is just not that effective of a strategy.
I can assure you that every possible spectrum of thought is represented here and I feel like I need to remind you that America is comprised primarily of foreigners already, as we have had the most liberal immigration policies of any country in the world for much of our history.
That liberal immigration policy is one of the primary reasons that we have become such a strong force in the world.
Unfortunately, the neo-cons (our most powerful group of radical extremists) have been fairly successful in propagating their xenophobic ideas and generally making a grand mess of things.
So, in summary, sorry and I hope we do better in the future.
Sincerely,
Timothy (one of the majority who voted against Bush in the last election)