Polls in 8 countries show wide Obama support - Who Cares?

Polls in 8 countries show wide Obama support: "LONDON (AP) - If the world beyond America's shores had a say, it seems clear that Barack Obama would win the presidential election by something approaching a landslide."

(Via Drudge Report.)

So who cares? One of the problems I think we've got is that our government has spent too many decades worried about not only what other countries think, but what they are doing.

Fix the damn problems here at home. Then we might be able to care what others think. Besides, if they love Obama that much, they should make him President of the European Union.

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US teen may be registered as sex offender for taking nude photo of herself -WTF?

US teen cuffed for sending nude phone pics • The Register: "A 15-year-old Ohio girl was arrested on felony child pornography charges for allegedly sending nude cell phone pictures of herself to classmates. Authorities are considering charging some of the students who received the photos as well."

(Via The Register.)

I know the government wants to protect us from ourselves but it seems like they're really getting carried away.

Regardless of right or wrong as far as the act goes, it just seems wrong to me that a teen girl takes a nude cell phone picture of herself and sends it to friends, then gets charged with producing child porn, possession of criminal tools (the cellphone?) and could be required to register as a sex offender for 20 years. That's just wrong.

As for wanting to charge the kids she sent the picture(s) with possession of child pornography...

Job Interviewer in 2018: "I see here that you are a registered sex offender. We don't hire your kind."

Young man: "But all it was is that a girl in one of my high school classes sent a nude picture of herself to my cell phone."

Job Interviewer: "Yeah, right. NEXT!"

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McCain - Obama Promise Change. Starting When?

We've all read and heard Barack Obama and John McCain promise change as part of their campaigns.

The Question of the Day is WHEN?

When they were state and Federal legislators and in position to create change, how much change did they create?

Now they are running for President of the United States.  Perhaps their voting records (which don't show change) were based on compromises. So how are they running their campaigns?  Are they flooding our airwaves and mailboxes with information on how they will bring this change about?

Nope.  The campaigns have fallen into the same rut as every previous U.S. Presidential campaign.  Mud slinging, half truths and campaigns against each other, "He's dirtier than I am" campaigning. So with no hint of change past or present, who would really believe that they can or will bring about change in the future?

Want change?  Pick one of the other 80% of the candidates.  You have eight to pick from. Even if we all pick randomly, chances are that we'll get more and better change than we'll get from the greedy two-headed giant (one red head and one blue head.)

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Trick Question: How Many Candidates in 2008 Presidential Election?

If you use the TV, most newspapers or most internet "news" sites and if you listen to or read the political ads and spam filling our mail boxes, the answer is two: Barack Obama and John McCain.

Here though, is the trick. The answer is one that the mainstream media as well as the Democrat and Republican parties want to keep a secret as much as possible.

There are actually TEN, yes 10 candidates for running for President this November! Could it be that the "powers that be" don't want mainstream U.S.A. to know that they have choices beside Obama-McCain?

I hit most of the mainstream news media sites tonight, and only Fox News showed that Bob Barr (Libertarian Party) and Ralph Nader (Independent) are candidates in addition to Obama and McCain. However, they still show only 40% of the candidates.

CNN, MSNBC, CBS News, New York Times, Washington Post, USA today all promise complete coverage, yet only cover 20% of the candidates!

Now, when I went to school, 40% would have earned me a big fat F!



So despite all the nifty color charts and tables comparing Obama and McCain, the public isn't given a chance to compare the choices of the sitting parties against the rest of the field. Gee, I wonder why the other candidates have problems raising money and getting out their word?

Some of these candidates have had some very GOOD things to say and offer. They deserve a chance to be heard by the voters. How many were invited to the Presidential debates? Having a series of Presidential debates but only inviting 20% of the candidates is rather like declaring a sports team "world champions" but only having teams from one or two countries compete. (Think World Series for example)

Ok, there's the list of candidates for the 2008 Presidential Election:

Chuck Baldwin - Constitition Party
Bob Barr - Libertarian
Roger Calero - Socialist Workers Party
Alan Keyes - America's Independent Party
Gloria La Riva - Party for Socialism and Liberation
John McCain - Republican
Cynthia McKinney - Green Party
Brian Moore - Socialist Party
Ralph Nader - Independant
Barack Obama - Democrat

As I've said before, we the voters just keep reelecting the "other" party hoping that they'll be better than the current one. John McCain, Barack Obama and Joe Biden are all sitting Senators and have been in position to create the change they're promising. As President they'll have less influence for change, but that is the basis of their campaigns.

The country is the way it is because the Democrat and Republican parties want it that way. If they didn't they'd have changed things already.

If we voters really wanted change, we wouldn't keep electing the same parties to office. The names and faces change but the platforms remain the same.

If they really wanted to give us change, Obama-Biden and McCain-Palin would both remove themselves from this election and put their support behind one of the other eight Presidential candidates.

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Finally, Mainstream Media that "Gets" It! - Cause of the Meltdown

I, among others, have been peaching that it's not Republican vs. Democrat, it is Republicans AND Democrats vs. US. There's a well written story that covers most of the causes of the recent global meltdown and puts the blame right where it belongs, Congress as a whole.

How Congress set the stage for a fiscal meltdown - USATODAY.com: "No single government decision sparked the crisis, but collectively the candidates had a point: Both parties in Congress played important roles in setting the stage for the ongoing financial meltdown."

(Via USA Today.)

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