It’s the definition of frustrating when, given that the newly elected President will be the most powerful man in the world, and his decisions ripple across the world, my views can't be translated into votes. Especially when those privileged enough to be American don’t even bother to get their facts right. To quote an American from Nashville, Tennessee, ‘Even though Obama is from Illinois, and I’m from Illinois I can’t vote for him because he is a Muslim.’
However my knowledge of Washington, I'm ashamed to say a bit more 'Sarah Palin' and a bit less 'Joe Biden' and initialising a 'world vote' isn't something I want to encourage.
Obama is suffering then from the proliferation of false rumours. The voting American public it seems, believe what they want to believe. Although not explicit Obama’s race promotes him as being different, an outsider, un-American. Channel 4 last night used statistics that Obama would be six points ahead if he was white. Obama’s lack of identification with the people who worship ‘god and guns’ could be his downfall.
It is preposterous to me that McCain is seen as intrinsically American because he fought for his country. While this in itself is admirable I’ll admit, it in no way qualifies him as a great 21st century leader. It is war and greed that has rendered America isolated and in chaos. War and greed; how many cars does McCain have? Thirteen. How many houses? Sorry I’ll just call his people to find out.
Eight years ago Obama was unable to attend the Democratic Convention in L.A because his car was towed when he was unable to keep up the payments on it. And this man doesn’t know the struggles of the American people? Please.
It is difficult not to surrender to the mud slinging that seems to be so familiar in American politics, perhaps it is less obvious within the British parties, or perhaps our politics is boring. Obama needs to defend himself, but at the same time rise above the negativity to channel a crystallised transparent image of an educated American who is able to represent his country nationally and internationally.
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Hi Charlotte, long time admirer, first time contributor. Although I agree with most of what you’ve said, I think your ‘vote for all’ mantra is some way off the mark. As the world shudders from the effects of sub-prime mortgage lending, I cannot help but think that the impact of sub-prime voting would be a million times worse. In a country that steadfastly re-elected George W. Bush, where obesity kills millions every year and where Scrubs is deemed funny, I strongly believe that some discretion should be exercised in permitting universal suffrage. At the very least a minimum IQ level should be exceeded, but I think it would much more exciting if the right to vote was based on a nationwide televised talent contest judged by George Sampson. Democracy is overrated anyway.
I think Scrubs is funny?!
Thank you for your post. I agree that the practicalities of universal suffrage are unworkable. It is an extreme solution that would throw up a thousand more problems.
However, there is some evidence to suggest that Obama would be the President of America if there was a 'world' vote. See http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article4083478.ece
It seems to me, that the impact the new American President will have will be felt across the world. There are so many people in the USA that get the vote by birth but fail to see through false prejudice, such as Obama being a Muslim.
Scrubs is whiny, insubstantial and second-rate. Just when you think it might actually be funny, that idiot doctor comes on the vocieover and rams some contrived moral down your throat.Yes, we get it, your friend is black and there's a latino one and a doctor who is meant be all nasty, but is actually a beacon of integrity. Scrubs is sloppy programming for a generation devoid of a sense of humour; it pales in comparison to British classics such as The Brittas Empire, Goodnight Sweetheart or Goodness Gracious Me. Bob Monkhouse must be turning in his grave.
On the less important subject of the next US president, I notice that you have not dismissed out of hand my George Samson suggestion, for which you are to be commended.
To take a lighter note for a moment if I may, it is clearly reprehensible to brand Obama a Muslim (in as much as it is seen by many Americans as a synonym for 'terrorist'), but is this not just canny electioneering from the McCain camp? They know that millions of Americans will eagerly believe these lies and refuse to vote for a black man with a supposedly murky background, so they fuel these rumours. This brings me back to my sub-prime voters argument; morons should not be allowed to vote.
I think that's the whole idea; as a voting American, they should have an accurate view of who they are voting for and why.
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