Nope. Obama is pretty much becoming a latin american populist president. Welcome to the third world, yankees! Of course the cliched figure of the corporate WASP running for the other party isn't likely to fare any better. No matter the result of this year's elections, a lot of people are going to be angry. And things are probably going to get worse.

Honestly the two party system have to go if the USA wants any chance of surviving until the turn of the century. The Democrats are slowly sinking into demagogy and the GOP is going the same way to a lesser scale.

I'm not saying it's a good idea.

I'm just saying how the system works.

I mean hell.   This is China's problem right now.

People see the Chinese as "Buying America!"

In reality they spend all kinds of money one expensive american homes and buisnesses because it acts as a "Safety Box" to protect them from Chinese corruption.

I mean, your definition is just what most people now a days consider capitalism.  Even the biggest free market economists like Milton Freidman wantede rules.   They just wanted simple rules everyone could understand, that treats everyone equally.

I'm not American, but I think I would vote for Obama. I'm not too keen on either, but Romney scares me a little - not sure why

If you arent sure why it probably means the propaganda campaign against romney is working.

First off, forcing people to buy health insurance from private companies is not universal healthcare ...

Secondly, on the topic of "unemployment", Barack Obama lowered unemployment through statistical manipulation. People were simply unemployed for so long they were no longer counted as being unemployed; simply look at the employment to population ratio to see how the employment picture has not improved under Barack Obama:

There is no propaganda campaign going on in the UK against Romney so I don't think gergroy is being influenced on that account. The fact most British media and probably most of the people arent too keen on him is simply based on their impression of him when he visited the UK.

Another thing is that Britain is pretty much an athiest country (regardless of what wiki or the CIA factbook says) with very many people veiwing leaders with strong religious ties ( like Romney being a mormon) with suspicion.

A survey a while back showed that the British in general prefer atheist leaders or those not to attached to God or religion. We have had atheist PMs and many atheist play major roles in our politics. For a potential US president to publically show he does not believe in God is political suicide.

No, you should get George W. Bush all over again.

I really dont undestand how half of americans cant seem to learn their lesson.

You just listed reasons, but he wasnt sure why he was scared of him, just that he was.  If he had said those reasons as to why he was scared, that would be fine, but he was scared for no reason.  

In what ways has obama been better than Bush?  Have you seen some dramatic difference in this country since obama took over?  The economy crashed when obama took office and it has stayed there his entire term.  He passed an extremely unpopular health care plan.  His education intitiatives are pretty much identical with republicans.  He kept the wars going while also adding a war in libya.  

What is the lesson here?  That all politicians are the same, yeah, i learned that, maybe you should too.

not the best president, but better than mitt romney imo
i think im a ron paul fanboy...