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Won't do crap.  Besides I'm sure I'm fine with no guns as long as I still have motorcycles.

Bikes we got, and awesome roads to ride them on. Got to wear a helmet, but you can't beat those mountain roads, and the smell of the ocean as you ride a twisty highway with no other traffic.

I love Canada. I'm an immigrant here and will be forever grateful my parents chose to move here. It's the most beautiful country in the world (imo - although when I travel I do appreciate different scenery), great people, and I do like that we have a political system that takes care of the people that don't or can't take care of themselves.

I think the US picked the right guy in Obama. He's redeemed your foreign reputation amazingly and that is a huge thing. I don't know a whole lot about what's going on domestically, but just the fact that, for the first time in 8 years, you actually have someone who can function internationally and has a clue about what goes on outside his own backyard is huge.

Dennis

Quote from: Dennis on May 03, 2009, 02:59:26 AM
Bikes we got, and awesome roads to ride them on. Got to wear a helmet, but you can't beat those mountain roads, and the smell of the ocean as you ride a twisty highway with no other traffic.

I love Canada. I'm an immigrant here and will be forever grateful my parents chose to move here. It's the most beautiful country in the world (imo - although when I travel I do appreciate different scenery), great people, and I do like that we have a political system that takes care of the people that don't or can't take care of themselves.

I think the US picked the right guy in Obama. He's redeemed your foreign reputation amazingly and that is a huge thing. I don't know a whole lot about what's going on domestically, but just the fact that, for the first time in 8 years, you actually have someone who can function internationally and has a clue about what goes on outside his own backyard is huge.

Dennis

My Mum emigrated from Canada to the UK, her parents had emigrated to Canada!

What you say about Obama being more acceptable internationally is true. Bush was seen as a dreadful man in most of the world together with his lapdogs Blair, Berlusconi, Aznar and those weird identical twins running Poland.

As for the US, I happen to have family members including my own son who would refuse to travel there even if it was free. It's very, very hard for many of us to forgive it's foreign policy and military interventions. Too many lives lost, too much support for Fascist and Para-Fascist regimes and then there are Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan and probably soon Pakistan and Iran as well.

Definitly from an international perspective, Obama is a good face. The confidence in him to run such a world power is huge compared to bush. Our confidence that we would see a rational, more peace inclined America has been pretty high.

I do know we seem to get more press about Obamas wife than Obama himself at my end of the world. I took that as a good sign and he was not doing anything drastic like choking on a pretzel or freaking other heads of state out by taking them for impromptu rides in his golf carts, not that I understand much about politics and economies  .

As anyone who has studied the American Constitution knows, the American Government was designed to move very slowly.  Before we dismantled them the checks and balances deal made it even slower.  But radical change is all but impossible. 

I happen to have family members including my own son who would refuse to travel there even if it was free

Irregardless, we still have a lot more people applying to get in then we have people getting out.  It's not Mexico worrying about people crossing the border in waves. 

And, there is not one America, there are many, some existing with in each other. 

In a micro view, there was a post recently asking about 'California' in some general way, and people, those of us who live here, and love it, kept trying to say that there is no one Cali, there is a dog pile of Cali.  Which, considering that the state is pretty much the same area as Savanna GA to NYC, ought to be expected. 

Quote from: tekla on May 04, 2009, 10:42:56 AM
Irregardless

-brain breaks for a second-

please don't say that word -shivers- please

Of coarse there are many issues at hand. The economy being one of the largest.

I'm mostly hoping Obama will get us out of Iraq. Maybe the rest of the world would stop trying to blame the whole country for the decisions of a small few. Most Americans never agreed on the war and it's been nothing but a drain on our economy.

Quote from: Rachel on May 04, 2009, 12:19:04 PM
-brain breaks for a second-

please don't say that word -shivers- please

It's not in formal usage.

Of course it's been a screwup for decades and well continue to be so. 

I <3 dictionary.com

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Quote from: Annwyn on May 01, 2009, 02:05:14 AM
He might SAY he's going to do all this crap for us, but who's he kidding?  The day that gays can enlist will be the day that 1/2 of the USMC and USArmy go AWOL. 

Whereas the Navy will instantly double its recruitment.

If what you say comes true -- GOOD. If some thickneck bigot can't deal with the horrifying possibility of serving with openly gay people, then I don't want my taxes paying his (or her) salary. I don't trust that person to defend my freedom.

(Sorry, I'm pissed; I just heard a jackass military officer today spouting off about the evils of gays in the military, not getting how much he sounded like someone complaining about integration of the military under Truman. Tough luck, bub, you lose.)

Whereas the Navy will instantly double its recruitment

Something about the Royal Navy being run by Rum, soddomy and the lash comes to mind, and the British Navy did rule the world, for no small part of time.

Quote from: Annwyn on May 04, 2009, 08:01:11 PM
It's not in formal usage.

Of course it's been a screwup for decades and well continue to be so. 

I <3 dictionary.com

still doesn't help the fact that it hurts my brain when i hear/read it.