You voted Obama, would you again?

[Joey D]

Yup, it's too much of a power game. People think Bush was run by Haliburton. We have this one pretty smart friend of the family who thinks that Obama is run by Wall Street. And it really scares me that a liberal president could be run by something such as Wall Street.

I would agree Obama is heavily influenced by Wall St. since Wall St. is basically placing all their chips on Obama to do the right thing so people start investing again instead of panic selling. I guess it's all guessing though since so much goes on behind closed doors and the general public won't ever know.

I must be honest though, I do think that a lot of the issues about being too big could be solved or helped if there was another world superpower out there to keep us in check, and to make sure we keep making intelligent decisions. Hell, you could probably apply the whole storyline of General Motors and Chrysler over the last ten years to modern day America...

It doesn't work though, a bigger or equal world superpower would just generate another Cold War. Although I suppose a Cold War would liven up technology advancement and maybe we'd be make leaps and bounds again to great discoveries. I look at all the things that have come into the world as a result of things rooted from the Cold War era and it's pretty mind blowing.

Although the trade off is constantly living in fear that we are going to get nuked off the map. I guess nothing is for free though is it?

 

[Philly]

It would play a role in our rather questionable foreign policy though. We'd have to be more careful picking which countries we choose to pick on in the event we get that other powerful nation involved too.

 

[Pupik]

Nothing's changed but the weather, nor do I expect much in the way of flux. I voted for him, but seriously...it's been less than 100 days since he took the oath.

As for the "threat" of overseas prisoners getting back onto the streets of the U.S., we still practice [wikipedia]extraordinary rendition[/wikipedia]. I didn't hear that buzzword in anyone's campaign.

 

[Digital-Nitrate]

You voted Obama, would you again?

Yes.

"Are there some people in congress you wish had never been elected?"

Yes!

 

[mindwise]

but seriously...it's been less than 100 days since he took the oath.

I thought someone would have pointed this out, but i didn't expect to this observation as late as post 63 of 65 (which is this post).

Please tell me i overlooked this sense posted on page 1