your country is in deep shit!
and you need to restore the economy by decreasing your military budget look at the following data:
1. entire world military budget is 1100 mlrd USD, the leader is USA with 650 mlrd USD, PRC takes the 2nd place with 60 mlrd USD, 10 mlrd less from PRC is Russia, the rest is for other 135 countries;
2. since 2004 US foreign trade debt has been increased by 72%!!! from 5.5 to 9.5 trln USD that is a lot!!!
America is to stop tricks with wars and agression, it’s time to concentrate on your own internal problems, o/w in the nearest future USA will become a history…

hope Obama will stop America from falling into the hellhole…

warm wishes and have a good luck

Putin’s accusation of Cheney using the Georian adventure to stir up things to get McCain elected, suggests that this policy change could happen on McCain’s watch if he gets elected. The fact that Putin said this means he hopes for an Obama presidency. I guess he thinks it will be possible to work with him. So the collapse of the petrodollar is not inevitable over the short term if you guys over there elect Obama.

Not that I personally have all that much hope in an Obama presidency. The president, no matter who he is, has to serve the interest’s of the owner’s of the American Empire. The big banking interests in New York, the military industrial complex primarily in California and Washington State and of course Texas and the oil companies.

He may shift the emphasis by balancing the interest of the different sectors that comprise the corporate control of the American Empire from the Neocon approach of direct military aggression to control the natural resources of the world and to prevent the development of any alternative centres of economic and political power to the neoliberal one where the control for the same objectives is carried out primarily by the big US-UK international banks and international institutions like the IMF and WTO. The military strength of the US being held as a threat in reserve.

So Obama at best is merely the lesser of two evils. Any way guys enjoy your election and remember he who controls the voting machines controls the …

All of that sounds quite good to me.

Obama supports a total handgun ban, even going so far as to vote
against a bill allowing homeowners to assert self-defense if they used
banned handguns to defend themselves from an attack by an intruder.

Obama defended infanticide, voting down a bill that would require
medical care for babies born as a result of a botched abortion, even
though the bill contained Roe neutral language.

Obama said that ICE immigration raids terrorize communities, even as
illegal aliens kill people like Tony Bologna.

“Ensuring that the U.S. continues to lead the world in science and technology will be a central priority for my administration.”

“we are clearly under-investing in research across the spectrum of scientific and engineering disciplines”

“My administration will increase funding for basic research in physical and life sciences, mathematics, and engineering at a rate that would double basic research budgets over the next decade.”

oh no… i’m tearing up again… *sniff*

Yes it’s high flying, yes it’s grand, yes it is “Soaring rhetoric” …

But when true leaders lead, they lead big… they say, “Let’s put a man on the moon.” “Give me liberty or give me death.”

Obama has made his mission clear, and very big…
He will act in accordance to those claims or reap the whirlwind…

I prefer this to those that only offer whirlwinds to begin with…

Wake up America!!!
(ok, that was Kucinich’s speech… it was sort of the condensed version of Obama’s)

-j-

The dollar is roughly on the order of where it should be relative to thirty year marks. It was very high at one point during the early 2ks so its no surprise it fell (not to mention the current account deficit was unsustainable) Actually its really the Euro thats overvalued b/c their central bank has kept their interest rates at a crazy pace for awhile now.

Either way, as the European economy goes into recession their interest rates will go down, the Euro will devalue, the dollar will rise relatively and we’ll be back to where it should be. These things are very cyclical, and have absolutely nothing to do with US president’s economic policies (other than their power to elect the head of the Fed).

I’ve heard this sentiment before, but I can’t honestly see why you think that it’s actually true.

Now, we wouldn’t have these issues if it weren’t for the monstrous national debt that the US has incurred. If the national debt was still a small percentage of the GDP, then it would be fundamentally impossible for any amount of speculation on the value of US currency and bonds to have any significant impact on the value of the dollar.

But this is not the case. All that needs to happen is for investors to start to believe that US bonds are a bad investment, and they’ll start shifting their investments away. This devalues the dollar, which causes investments in US bonds to be even worse, which makes more investors turn away, etc.

What I’m hoping for here is that Obama wins, and that he listens to some very intelligent economic advisors to fix this problem. Because if we don’t, well, it’s going to be nasty. Obama at least has the capacity to be one of the persons more likely to solve this problem, if anybody can.

I know there are differences on same-sex marriage, but surely we can agree that our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters deserve to visit the person they love in the hospital and to live lives free of discrimination.

Pollyanna.

Perhaps I am still disappointed in Biden’s pick for VP. Which is petty, since VPs are relatively low on the importance scale (unless you’re Cheney, who unfortunately has been very important). Obama’s comments about McCain’s long-tenured residence in politics could have been followed by cameras cutting to Biden for his reaction, but thankfully they did not.

Do you really want those incompetent neocons in the highest levels of our government for another four years? In the DoJ? In the state department? In the EPA, FDA, FCC, TSA, DHS, FEMA, et cetera?

If anything, Obama is pragmatic and he’s intelligent. He’ll appoint people who are actually capable of doing their jobs.

Will McCain? Who knows? Clearly he’s made a pact with the devil. He’s got neocons all throughout his campaign. How many favors will he owe them if he wins? I don’t know about you, but I don’t relish the idea of having Liberty University alumni crawling around in my government again.

Obama is nothing more than the lesser of two evils. Anybody can point to the Bush legacy and declare a disaster. Is he qualified to be president? A third Clinton term would have been the safer choice IMO. If Obama gets elected, it will be 3 and a half years before he gets the training wheels off. It takes time to get dialed in, and Clinton was already dialed in.

Our economy will go through the same phases that it did in the aftermath of the Viet Nam war. Stupid unnecessary wars are very costly. What devalues our money is when we dilute it by printing more in order to pay for the war.

The “Change” is going to be nothing more than a different flavor of hot air.

not just on here, just about every article on the web you see is followed by some comment saying that all Obama has are words.

come on this all you got, where’s the swiftboat spirit!

these detraction just make them sound loser-ish.

He mentioned several times that he wanted to “debate” McCain

Oh really? That is why he pledged earlier this year and last year that if he were to be the democratic nominee he would agree to townhall discussions with McCain to discuss the issues.Just words?
Then McCain wanted more than the minimum of 3 debates and Obama campaign said no. Just words?
Yeah just words.

Unfortunately, that means ban anything that is not politically correct. News flash, it is already illegal for criminals to possess firearms as well as to shoot people. You think one more law will change that?