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Nov 1, 2012 10:21am

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Topic: Serious Discussion / U.S. Presidential Election

Obama should continue to be the president of the US.He has been a good,protective president and nothing can change that.Romney could be a good president, but Obama tops him a little bit. To sum this all up, GO OBAMA!

Nov 1, 2012 10:16am

wildwest44 10 posts

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Originally posted by beauval:

I can’t really dismiss your statement as I am not a big Romney fan, but I do like his VP choice a lot.

Well, this has got to be a first. I find myself agreeing with jhco on something political. I see Romney as a lightweight, with no real definition of what he actually believes in or stands for. When he visited Europe he made a complete fool of himself. He was immature and gauche, definitely not a world statesman in the making. While I do not agree with much of what Ryan offers by way of solutions, for me he does show a real understanding of the economy, and I think that’s important. If he was put in charge of the nations finances, we might actually see decisions based on economic reality rather than playing to the crowd.

On the democratic side, Biden is another true lightweight who seems to specialise in saying something inappropriate. For the last four years he has been practically invisible to me. Is he really the best candidate for VP that the democrats can come up with? I am far from convinced that Obama has proved himself as a good president. He certainly hasn’t been a great one. Now over here, the NHS is a very big issue indeed, so I’m probably attaching far more importance to health care than Americans do. But in Obamacare he has made a big effort to address a long standing and very real problem that America has, and for that reason alone he would get my vote.

It’s a pity that there can be no Obama/ Ryan ticket. Pairing a man who wants to do the right things with a man who understands the numbers well enough to make some of those things happen might be enough to get America out of the doldrums. We have a similar problem in the UK. We have a prime minister who makes a lot of the right noises (a lot of the wrong ones too, it must be said), but a chancellor (finance minister) who doesn’t know his arse from his elbow, who has made some very bizarre decisions.

America has a straight choice between a lightweight with experience who has achieved something important, and another lightweight who gives every appearance of standing for nothing at all. It’s a pretty uninspiring choice. For me it would be Obama by a short head, in the hope that a second term might see him grow into a really good president.