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It's because the American people voted for looks over substance. Obama has no morals and no spine, but he looks and sounds like a Hollywood star. Obama is just
by taktix 13y ago
It's because the American people voted for looks over substance. Obama has no morals and no spine, but he looks and sounds like a Hollywood star.
Obama is just the US population's reflection in the mirror.
- bayesianhorse 13y agoI don't believe his opponents where a lot better. As long as they didn't get president, it's easy to say they have more morals and spine, but they were sure squawking opinions I didn't like.
- Lewton 13y agoIt's logic like yours that's keeping the broken political system you have in america in place. Somehow pretending that voting for some other guy would have prevented this
- icebraining 13y agoYes, they should have voted for substance, for McCain, instead, who just yesterday called this process "appropriate". And of course, the two parties chose to approve and re-approve the PATRIOT act.
- betterunix 13y agoWho says it is a choice between two people? You may not have noticed, but there are more than two parties in this country. How about all the Democrat and Republican voters who talk about choosing the lesser of two evils get over it and vote for third parties whose views they agree with? Stop being cowards and worrying about the "other side." If anything, we will at least force the major parties to work harder to keep their power.
- mullingitover 13y agoWinner-take-all voting systems naturally tend to produce a two-party system. There's an aversion to vote third party due to the problem of throwing your vote away. So, before you can have viable third parties in this country, you have to revamp the voting system to something like instant runoff.
- icebraining 13y agoWe have a Parliamentary system with six parties with at least one seat. For the most part, I'd say it barely has any effect, except maybe on some important social issues (same-sex marriage and drug use decriminalization), but which could have passed without them. The problem is that the two major parties coalesce the broad ideology-less voters, and while the others have a solid core of supporters, they can never really get a meaningful number to really force change. I mean, even during one of our worst economical crisis, with unemployment and poverty hitting record highs, the polls barely show any increase for the other parties.
- eli_gottlieb 13y agoI voted for Stewart Alexander. Look what good that did.
- fnordfnordfnord 13y agoSubstance? You think Mitt Romney had substance?