Who would be the most able American to deliver the end of the world in December 2012?

[Al B. Sure!]

such as John Legend

American politics are so screwy, I'm going to call them 'Politainment'. This article really felt it worthwhile to mention what a singer thinks? No disrespect to John Legend but a SINGER?

[Guynemer]

OK, you're in need of a dose of reality for something altogether different.



Essentially saying the same thing that I said. Just prove it and move on, but Obama prefers to be a distraction.

Jesus, Sloww. HE HAS PROVEN IT. The birth certificate has been released. It is a bull**** right-wing meme that it hasn't. Look at the ****ing picture I posted. There is no controversy.

[C0ckney]

Actually, they've been quite successful in winning elections...many (most?) of the Republican house freshman consider themselves "tea party".

i meant a presidential election. what you say about the new congressmen is the point i'm making, they are dragging the republicans to the right and making them pander to that constituency more and more, which in turn will move american politics in general further to the right (hard to imagine i know).

[Al B. Sure!]

Jesus, Sloww. HE HAS PROVEN IT. The birth certificate has been released. It is a bull**** right-wing meme that it hasn't. Look at the ****ing picture I posted. There is no controversy.

All I see is a 'Certification of Live Birth'

[OneFootInTheGrave]

all I see is that Palin should be my favourite next president as I am looking forward to the apocalypse

[Hauldren Collider]

i meant a presidential election. what you say about the new congressmen is the point i'm making, they are dragging the republicans to the right and making them pander to that constituency more and more, which in turn will move american politics in general further to the right (hard to imagine i know).

Actually, they're dragging the republicans and everyone else to the right. They've managed to shift the debate from whether to cut spending to how much spending should be cut, and they've brought the public along with it. That's a monumental achievement, when you think about it. They might not get everything they want, and they might not get the public to agree with them, but they've moved everyone in their direction.

[DaShi]

People who can't win can sometimes influence dialogue. Every time trump or whoever talks about obama's birthplace they delegitimize any further criticism.

I don't think Trump really cares. He's just going to try to pander to the extreme right just to see how far it gets him.

[DaShi]

Actually, they're dragging the republicans and everyone else to the right. They've managed to shift the debate from whether to cut spending to how much spending should be cut, and they've brought the public along with it. That's a monumental achievement, when you think about it. They might not get everything they want, and they might not get the public to agree with them, but they've moved everyone in their direction.

And for everyday that we slip farther back, the Chinese push forward.

[Hauldren Collider]

Right. Because government intervention in China has worked really well there.

[DaShi]

Yes, it has. Do you really have no clue about China?

[Hauldren Collider]

I suppose it brought them slightly out of the dark ages, though not fully, albeit at the expense of millions of lives. Those trying to be diplomatic would probably describe that as a "mixed legacy".

[DaShi]

Alright. You don't know anything about China. Understood. I'm surprised you are talking about it with so little knowledge. You're sounding a lot like DFG right now. So why don't you tell us what you think brought them out of the "dark ages."

[KrazyHorse]

Yes, it has. Do you really have no clue about China?

???

The reduction in government interventionism appears to me to be what has allowed the massive increase in wealth of the Chinese over the last 30 years.

[Al B. Sure!]

Alright. You don't know anything about China. Understood. I'm surprised you are talking about it with so little knowledge. You're sounding a lot like DFG right now. So why don't you tell us what you think brought them out of the "dark ages."

Making steel in their backyards?

[DaShi]

Only those companies that the government has intervened in remain competitive national and globally in China.