If the election was held today...

[B_starinvestor]

I'd vote for Obama again.

If he's accomplished nothing else in his first year he's accomplished the restoration of the good name of the United States to much of the world. In my opinion it was his first and probably most difficult undertaking since so much damage had been done by the previous President.

Good foreign relations is a foundation on which we can begin to rebuild a worldwide respect for these United States. "The cowboy's dead" (thank Christ!)

Can you assist by pointing out where exactly our good name has been restored? I'll acknowledge Venezuala; but it is hard too see any foreign policy benefits we have gleaned from any nation on about any issue. Our creditors have cut us off. No progress in the elimination of nuclear weapons. No help in Mid East.

I know the admin tried to foster goodwill, I'm just not sure that it has actually happened.

I spent a week in Paris last month and can't say the Frenchies were excited to see me. Lucky for them the tip is already included in everything.

 

[DaveyR]

I spent a week in Paris last month and can't say the Frenchies were excited to see me.

Probably more about you as a person rather than your Nationality :tongue::smile:

Welcome back by the way :smile:

 

[D_Gunther Snotpole]

There is a false assumption that the candidate for President makes the choice of running mate. The truth is that all the candidate does is to rubber stamp the candidate of his party.

Isn't it quite the contrary?
In practice, the party, at the convention, rubberstamps the choice of the presidential candidate.
Now that the presidential candidate, because of the primary process, is most often known before the convention, the world just waits for his choice for certainty about who will share the federal ballot with him.
All done before there is any formal voting at the convention.

 

[B_Stronzo]

Mitt Romney.

And Obama should be appointed as Czar of teleprompter innovation.

Sour grapes doll.

Mitt Romney's a bigot and he believes in a cult which subscribes to the ravings of a madman named Joseph Smith who based a faux-denomination of the Christian religion on delusional conversations with God and the finding of gold plates given him by some ficticious character named Moroni.

Furthermore Romney presided as Governor of this Commonwealth long enough for me to have a very clear view of his take on diversity.

What CAN these morons (Mormons?) be thinking?

And you're worried about a teleprompter? At least this President can read.

Can you assist by pointing out where exactly our good name has been restored? I'll acknowledge Venezuala..

You and I experience the French differently. Yes.. Italy, France, fervent attempts at the Near East, the list goes on but you're not interested in the least now are you? Your opinion of Obama was formulated before his name was known to you. The man has intelligence and those with whom I'm in contact in Italy, the Iberian pennisula, and Continental Europe do NOT feel the way they did when that moron from Crawford, Texas was in the Oval Office.

I spent a week in Paris last month and can't say the Frenchies were excited to see me. Lucky for them the tip is already included in everything.

Why would they be? You came armed with your ugly Americanism blazing.

"Frenchies"?

Wow. Guess you came to Paris with your Midwestern chip on your shoulder fully intact too.

Any more stereotypes you'd like to hurl? Are you for real?

I'll bet you were about as close to Paris as Milwaukee, WisCAHNsin. :biggrin1:

Yes that is his real only accomplishment. He apologized for America and what has that wrought?

Reason .. that's what it's wrought.

... Nuclear ambition in Iran

inherited

a nuclear detonation in North Korea

inherited

... and China and India thumbing their noses at global warming

inherited and entirely denied by your previous administration lest you forget

 

[Onslow]

I would vote for Sarah Palin because she knows how to prepare moose which means I would always have food on the table unless mooses became extinct then I'd vote for the man who invented cheese.