Obama Wins South Carolina Primary - Victory Speech 1 of 2

[dmwmsmpaphd]

Dear Bennylava2008,

Kindly stay out of our political affairs. We're not the slightest bit interested in your opinion of us. We will choose a president that is considered best for the nation, considering your opinion of him or her for what it is worth, nothing. A nation, like a person, must act as it sees best irrespective of the fickle and uninformed opinions of others. If we want your opinion, we'll ask for it. To offer it prior to that is rude and intrusive.

[PsychoDox]

Everyone has their right to speak, including you, and including other from other nations. We can no longer shut people out, never should have to begin with.

yes we can

Obama 2008

[dmwmsmpaphd]

Can you not see the folly in bowing to the whims and/or schemes of foreign interests in our most important national function? Hello? O.K. then, me and some friends want you to root for the New England Patriots, eat broccoli with ketchup tonight, and buy a boat and a motorcycle. No? Why not? Oh because someone foreign to you is interfering in affairs internal to you. Get it now?

[PsychoDox]

I get it, you don't want to hear others ideas because you disagree with them and believe it will change you. We are stronger than that, we can hear other people's ideas even if we disagree with them or they are a part of some 'arbitrary' group that we don't belong to. America affects the rest of the world and Bush has ignored foreigners too long, which is not what the America I love, is about. All people have ideas, good or bad; listen and find common ground.

We need change, unify.

[dmwmsmpaphd]

Thankfully, every single leader of every single nation on earth disagree with you. Have you not noticed that no leader of any other nation has endorsed any one of our candidates? Do you know why? Because to do so would be rude, intrusive, and a threat to U.S. sovereignty. I understand your willingness to be open to others sentiments, but they have no place in our national elections. Otherwise, the above fact would not have been true for so long. Check your history.

[PsychoDox]

That may be true, but bennylava2008, that I know of, is not a leader of a nation, and for that matter didn't even state an endorsement. Even if they did endorse someone, it wouldn't have changed my mind. And I am interested in what others have to say, even if it is in disagreement with me.

[FalconX2000]

Isolationism is the folly of every overly proud nation. China and Japan took an isolationist stance, and fell behind in all areas. America gained much prosperity by lowering its' isolationist stance.

While bennylava2008's post does strike me as far too oversimplified and lacking in tact, people do have a right to comment, regardless of how little it affects them (and the President of the USA affects all other countries to a large degree). To be fair, I've seen plenty worse than his.

[bennylava2008]

OK...Americans need to see it the way the rest of the world sees it. You are run by powerful feuding families, just like everywhere else. For all your pretty rhetoric, you always wind up voting for the same people. How is this democracy?

1988: Pres. Bush

1992: Pres. Clinton

1996: Pres. Clinton

2000: Pres. Bush

2004: Pres. Bush

2008: Pres. Clinton? -- The choice is yours. What message do you want to send the world about the power of your democratic system?

[PsychoDox]

it says to me, time for change

yes we can

[Lunawolfe]

It says to me our government is stupid for certain things we have done.

I really think Barack Obama will help to start to turn this country around. He's not old and part of an oil industry entanglement like Bush is.

And for the sake of things; Clinton really wasn't that bad. He pulled us out of our debt.

Bush threw us right back in, head first.

[PsychoDox]

The people, for Obama, for the people!

Obama 2008