[Blue Lion]

He's an empty suit and yet a massive force that can completely ruin our nation in less time than it takes to get a rebate check back.

[Janos]

What happened to 8 years of "trust your president" in the last 90 days?

If this president is so powerful, that in 91 days he has destroyed the social and economic fabric of the country, hell, I'll go vote for him again...

That kind of power can't be stopped.

The conservative politicos should be ashamed of themselves.

The New York City lay in ruins. The flames of damnation burned Housten, demolished San Francisco - Los Angeles, Chicago. I have been hearing reports of Obama. He tore down the Kremlin with his bare hands. No one can resist him. When he talks, people convert to his forces. Trees and electric cars rain down from the skies. The Palestinians and Jews were all turned into nuclear ash in mere seconds after challenging him.

Our brave forces tried to face him in the fields of Sudan. His Kenyan shock troopers... they killed everyone and the survivors were impaled on flagpoles. I hear his words when I sleep. Sometimes I try to open the Holy Bible, but there are no words there. A chaos of pictures fills my mind. Obama, standing on the final shore. The seas are pink, the sky is black. The mankind has met its end. He leans down and with one gesture of his hand turns babies into solar power plants.

The constitution self-destructed when he was elected. A wind came down from the sky and now what remains of the Washington are his footsteps. Gay tigers are scraping at this door - the door of the last church in the world. Polar caps have melted and what little remains of mankind is having an orgy right outside my window.

I am lonely and I can see how the clouds twist eerily into his name.

Obama.

[Liberator]

That second bit was quite clever.  And from a certain perspective quite possible.  I just have this nagging feeling somethings not right.  I don't care what's he's done or doing, how does a man who only got 53% of the actual voter turn-out turn around and have a 70% popular support rating?  Things are going to well or they're being reported wrong, I mean the national media(NBC, CBS, ABC, NY Times, ect) seems to have orgasms any time he speaks...

[karajorma]

You do realise that people can think that Obama is doing a good job even if they thought that McCain would have done a better one, right?

It's not hard for someone to have much higher approval rating than percentage of votes.

[Knight Templar]

What happened to 8 years of "trust your president" in the last 90 days?

If this president is so powerful, that in 91 days he has destroyed the social and economic fabric of the country, hell, I'll go vote for him again...

That kind of power can't be stopped.

The conservative politicos should be ashamed of themselves.

The New York City lay in ruins. The flames of damnation burned Housten, demolished San Francisco - Los Angeles, Chicago. I have been hearing reports of Obama. He tore down the Kremlin with his bare hands. No one can resist him. When he talks, people convert to his forces. Trees and electric cars rain down from the skies. The Palestinians and Jews were all turned into nuclear ash in mere seconds after challenging him.

Our brave forces tried to face him in the fields of Sudan. His Kenyan shock troopers... they killed everyone and the survivors were impaled on flagpoles. I hear his words when I sleep. Sometimes I try to open the Holy Bible, but there are no words there. A chaos of pictures fills my mind. Obama, standing on the final shore. The seas are pink, the sky is black. The mankind has met its end. He leans down and with one gesture of his hand turns babies into solar power plants.

The constitution self-destructed when he was elected. A wind came down from the sky and now what remains of the Washington are his footsteps. Gay tigers are scraping at this door - the door of the last church in the world. Polar caps have melted and what little remains of mankind is having an orgy right outside my window.

I am lonely and I can see how the clouds twist eerily into his name.

Obama.

omg I definitely lol'd. Along the lines of the Reagan comic book series.

[Nuclear1]

That second bit was quite clever.  And from a certain perspective quite possible.  I just have this nagging feeling somethings not right.  I don't care what's he's done or doing, how does a man who only got 53% of the actual voter turn-out turn around and have a 70% popular support rating?  Things are going to well or they're being reported wrong, I mean the national media(NBC, CBS, ABC, NY Times, ect) seems to have orgasms any time he speaks...

You do know that whole part was satire right?  Well, if you didn't, and you seriously thought Obama was capable of any of that...then that would explain a lot of things.

Plus, for reasons karajorma stated, your voter turn out = popular support matchup doesn't work.

[Liberator]

You do realise that people can think that Obama is doing a good job even if they thought that McCain would have done a better one, right?

While that is true, it means exactly dick unless they get they're asses out and vote.

[Nuclear1]

You do realise that people can think that Obama is doing a good job even if they thought that McCain would have done a better one, right?

While that is true, it means exactly dick unless they get they're asses out and vote.

  What exactly is this supposed to mean, exactly? 

It could be that people who voted for McCain are supporting Obama for various reasons.

Or people who didn't vote during the election are included in the poll.

Basically, there are several different reasons for the discrepancy, and you possibly picked the one that makes the least correlation or sense.

[karajorma]

You do realise that people can think that Obama is doing a good job even if they thought that McCain would have done a better one, right?

While that is true, it means exactly dick unless they get they're asses out and vote.

Nuclear1's comments notwithstanding (and he makes good points), why should I give a damn about Republicans who were too lazy to go vote for McCain and now don't mind Obama being in charge?

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Nuclear1's comments notwithstanding (and he makes good points), why should I give a damn about Republicans who were too lazy to go vote for McCain and now don't mind Obama being in charge?

You're British, right? Why do you even care about whether they vote? (I can't think of a more polite manner to put this question across, sorry)

EDIT: Umm, can somebody change the title a little, just for clarification?

[karajorma]

You're British, right? Why do you even care about whether they vote? (I can't think of a more polite manner to put this question across, sorry)

I'm quite happy for McCain's supporters to have sat at home on election day so that Obama could win. That was my point. Why should I care that they sat at home and did nothing? Turned out well for me. And if those figures are correct, turned out well for them too. 

If you're asking me why I care who is president of the USA, well surely you aren't naive enough to believe that the person in change of the USA has no effect on my own country?

[Androgeos Exeunt]

If you're asking me why I care who is president of the USA, well surely you aren't naive enough to believe that the person in change of the USA has no effect on my own country?

Right, right ... I'm still trying to get that fact into my head.

[Liberator]

Well, I'm gonna be lazy here a minute and ask a loaded question...

How many of the people who voted for Obama thought like the woman in this video...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1FCmfo2Ft4

Just saying...

[Inquisitor]

That was not why I voted for him.

[Snail]

I didn't vote for him because I'm not in teh US

[karajorma]

Shall we go into the stupid reasons people voted for Bush too?

Democracy always results in votes for all parties being cast by idiots.

[NGTM-1R]

Well, I'm gonna be lazy here a minute and ask a loaded question...

How many of the people who voted for Obama thought like the woman in this video...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1FCmfo2Ft4

Just saying...

I voted for him because he had new ideas, and we clearly needed new ideas, rather than another four years of the Republican Party practicing the old ideas.

However in a lot of ways I also voted against McCain rather than for Obama. Or rather, against Palin.

[Turambar]

Yeah, and the republicans still think Barack HUSSEIN Obama is a secret muslim (with a racist pastor) who is also not really American.

[Liberator]

How can you think Reverend Wright is NOT a racist...

The better question is why is yelling stuff like that from the pulpit, as a reverend, that's not his job...at least it's not supposed to be...

Maybe I'm spoiled with having a real Man of God for my pastor instead of some dude who's in love with the sound of his voice...

[Turambar]

I was just pointing out the sillyness of the whole "He's a secret muslim!" crowd also complaining about how he went to a church they don't like.

Honestly, I don't like when they talk about religion at all.  Makes me have less respect for the candidates when I remember what they claim to believe in.