Obama is about to take stage at DNC!

[The_vagabond7]

rocketpig said:

The_vagabond7 said:
I think all politics is silly. It's a roll of the dice no matter what. Anything they say or do now is completely irrelevant to what will happen when they are in office.

Absolutely. But at least with McCain, you have a history to base your opinions. I'm not saying that people shouldn't vote for Obama if they feel he is right, I'm simply saying that the world populace needs to take a step back and question why they're so in love with the man and whether it makes sense.

Absolutely, but then you'd be changing the long held shallow american tradition. Americans don't know jack about politics, they vote based on who they like personally. It's always been that way, Obama isn't the first and certainly won't be the last. It's the pitfall of democracy.

Luckily, it's a crapshoot. Even if america votes for a president based on his choice in suits, they've got just as good of a chance of getting a putz as if they voted for the guy in the terrible suit. Fatalistic perhaps, but with alot of truth.

Have you ever read the book "The drunkards Walk?" I highly recomend it. It's about how random influences and statistical anomolies have far more influence in our lives that determinable, controlable, predictable and sensical influences. Looking to the past to predict the future is often an incredibly flawed method. And while I'm not saying that a record should be ignored, under the right circumstances (and there could be so many) a record is quite irrelevant.

I don't really care who wins, or why. The results of either is completely unpredictable and thereby rather equal.

 

Edit:I figure I should throw in that I'm agreeing with rocketpig, and then just expounding on some things I said earlier.