| BenKenobi88 said:
No offense to you marciosmg, but why is it that conspiracy theories or far out accusations about US politics always come from foreigners? It just seems like they think this is all a game or a movie plot. I'm not trying to discriminate against other countries...it's just an observation from endless forum posts here. "I'm not from this country, but here's a description of your government I found from The Inquirer!" This is really just what happens during every election crunch though...each campaign tries to dig up as much insignificant dirt on the other candidate before the election, and nobody really acts on any of it, since most reasonable people realize it's bullshit...you'd be surprised what multi-million dollar campaigns for the highest office in the US will "dig up." It's an interesting thread marciosmg, and it's not wrong of you to bring these links up...it's just annoying since I would think it's obvious most are fabrications of some kind. |
Non-taken, though I think you shouldn´t have used the face-palm pic. I´m not trying to hate on Obama or the americans. I´m very much an "americanized" person. I probably know more about the US culture and judicial system than my own country.
The only reason I did this is because even though I have been following the american election I have never seen any of what I posted ever mentioned.
Like you said, the election means a lot of people doing a lot of digging and I never saw anyone mention this. While I ´m not american and have nothing against Obama (I don´t really believe this things), I suddenly see all this articles (in English, so it wasn´t from a foreigner) that says all this things and it shows me how bias most of the media is.
In fact, in my country all the news and opinions pieces come directly from left-wing papers like The New York Times (Paul Krugman has his column printed on my paper regularly), so you never get to hear from the other side and that pisses me off a little bit.
When Bush was running for reelection the local papers would talk so much about how americans are tired of him and the war, so I truly believed Kerry would win by a landslidde. But come election time and Bush wins by like 4 million votes.
So, like I said in the first post, this thread was meant to level the playing field. If people (I think Rubang did it - if not, sorry) are gonna post strange stories about how Palin´s new son is actually his grandson, other people should about this, so that everybody is better informed and/or annoyed with all the conspiracy theories.
