To Allan:
If numbers is all that matters, you could go play Halo
Heh, a debate with you would indeed be fun, but I'm terrible at expressing ideas in writing. Maybe I'd talk to you about both melee/brawl and obama/mccain in person one day. I'm sure u'd have good views, and that's make it fun. But nah, I see ur point though about melee/brawl. I kind of feel that way myself somedays, but then I see how much more fun melee is and realize why I live life (for the good times..)
At least I hope you didn't vote McCain purely because of Obama slander. I hope that you actually believe in free trade, the war in Iraq, and some of the other various nuances of McCain. I, however, have an encyclopedia of reasons to vote for Obama (more regulation is good, what else do we have a government for? can bring confidence to the people, ie. he is a figure-head; can bring back our standing in the world; I was secretly hoping he was Sunni Muslim anyway.. least that way Iran would prob. be a thing of the past (kidding); Capitalism is broke and he has more of a chance at fixing it; he's smart; etc.. These are all maybes just like maybe McCain could do.. something.. and hopefully he doesn't die in office, Palin would have ***** us all. Honestly.. I could have gone for McCain before Palin foreseeably, in all honestly, McCain is a good guy (and actually, quite bipartisan in spite of him waving that around purely for votes). I had no problem with McCain, it's not like I'm an Obama radical, really. And if Mccain's campaign advisors showed anything about him, it was that not only is McCain coming to office, but a bunch of Republicans are coming with him too, and McCain is very willing to let them make many of their own decisions unquestioned by McCain. It's either that or he's just as dirty as his campaign was, but I doubt that.. Also, I guarantee you Obama is the better politician. He reminds me of Bill Clinton actually in that regard (the best politician of the 20th century). Also he's young, and I'm confident he won't stop working, and that he has the resolve and desire to truly help the situation. Sometimes that's all you can do in an election, just vote based on character.
Also, don't confuse me with a democrat. The 2 party system is ******** and a current fundamental weakness of America (the reactionary vote in the presidency creates America that is turned off, the 4 years later on, the 4 years later off, then 4 years later on, etc.) Hence why Bush is like, "Obama, if you do anything, don't fail in Iraq." Because then all Iraqis loyal to the US are burned and then we're realllllllly distrusted. Also, I don't actually like politics. I just keep my ears open.
The war in Iraq is hysterical btw. There's terrorists all over the world and we're trying to micro-manage them.. It's clear to me there are only 2 solutions. Leave. Or we could violate all territorial boundaries in the world and assassinate these bands of terrorists and make many friends among the countries whose territory we violate. Hmmm... I mean.. there's no reason why Bin Lauden couldn't just.. move to another country and transcend the war.. yet.. with such a clear alternative for the enemy, we still start the fight anyways? Now, I'll throw the president (though all officials in Washington more accurately) a bone and say that what's done is done and how do we fix it (although our leaders are supposed to be brilliant, so "we didn't think about that" is simply ********). To fix it.. well, that just goes back to option number 1 directly.. but I suppose if a victory is what we need to revitalize America, I suppose we could (this is where the specifics actually matter, which of course I'm not in the know, and therefore can't make a decision, but in the future when all information is divulged to the people, I'll be sure to criticize then.)
on, and as an aside to everyone, these oil prices (the high ones) aren't changing ever again, get used to it, it may well scale back the American power we all know and love
Forget everything you've heard, there
is an oil shortage (in the fact that it will be much harder in the future to get oil, previously the earth has just been pouring the stuff out at us..) Also demand has skyrocketed in the world (somewhat ironic, cause we're partly to blame for the rise of everyone else..)
