Comments on: McCain versus Obama

By: papillon

papillon — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 02:38:43 +0000

I also don’t know why people say that Obama’s policy will punish those who are successful? In a civilized society, the top 5% should be expected to contribute financially to the society which allowed them to be so successful. What is so “punishing” about that? This is the 21st century, and we are not a “everyman for himself” society like mainland China or Russia.

And for those who think there should be no government in our life, they should take one more look at what happened in Wall St in the last few weeks! That is what happened when we want to live in a “free for all” society without any kind of regulations or protections (the Republicans have even advocated for the privatization of our Social Security funds, that is how stupid they could get!)

Speaking of giving up our freedom, try to imagine life under McBush with women losing their reproductive rights, or having Creationism shoved in your children’s faces at school, or another Patriot Act that would allow you to be kidnapped and thrown into jail, raped by their “privatized torturers” or murdered without trials. I don’t know if that is what you saw while “traveling the world” or not, but may be you don’t have to travel to see all those; they happened right here in the US. I am surprised you haven’t noticed that, perhaps because you have been busy living in the past?

By: papillon

papillon — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 02:24:25 +0000

Deeply concern,
Yes, I have traveled through more than 20 countries in the world, and countries like France, Spain, the Netherlands, etc have way more comprehensive health care than the US. I guess by your standard, those countries are considered communist that we should be afraid of? No worries, the French, Spanish, Dutch live happily and peacefully like we do, if not more. The phobia you are trying to spread here came from your negative experience living with certain communist countries that in no way resemble the European nations I just mentioned. Anyway, I didn’t mean to say that the US under Obama will necessarily become another France,Spain or Holland; I only brought them up because you were running a scare tactic just like McCain and Bush have been doing. I you were in middle school when the communist took over then I was in highschool back then. That would make me a little older than you, and perhaps a little wiser too, based on your logic, no?

By: Pat Dorsey

Pat Dorsey — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:38:52 +0000

I find this article to be incredibly biased and frankly, disgusting. It’s fine to spread Obama propaganda on the internet, not even looking at the positives on McCain’s views and opinions, but you cannot do it, claiming that it’s a look at the two mens’ opinions on all of the issues. If I’m a voter who has no idea who I’ll vote for, after reading this, I would definitely go Obama.

I don’t know, it just seems immoral to be campaigning for Obama as if it’s a fact

By: Thu Hoai

Thu Hoai — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:05:13 +0000

Deeply concern,
I suggest you do a little more investigation
into Obama’s plans.

By: Hoang

Hoang — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:15:50 +0000

“…the rights to live your lives without government interventions are something that your parents or grandparents had to fight for or had left all they know and love to seek them…” You are correct but this has already been discuss multiple time. The Obama administration will be more transparent than the Bush or McCain ever be. If you don’t want government intervention then we definitely get rid of McCain and Bush. Think about the Patriot Act…

“Why do I want to punish a person who is smarter or has worked harder than me that he/she is better off than myself?” You are right we shouldn’t, like Nhien had already pointed out in another post here is an excerpt from it,

“I think there are part of us deep down that we all want to believe that America is a true meritocratist society. That is if you work hard, you will be rewarded for the merit of your work. The reality is this is not true. Will you be guaranteed a better job next time or even be paid fairly if you work as hard as an engineer, or as a clerk, or serving at MacDonald? Not necessary. You can’t tell me that the Wamu CEO deserves the 13 millions dollars or so for 2 weeks of work before the collapse of the company and or that CEO on Wallstreet deserves billions and billions in compensations while workers get pennies. If one flips burgers really well, one will probably do that for the rest of his/her life making less then $8/hour. Unfortunately, that is the compensation system we currently have.” (Nhien)

Truth of the matter is it’s not about equal distribution of wealth, it’s about equal opportunity.

This is not to mention that McCain is a war monger. He still think that the Iraq invasion is a success. It’s not, it has cost us almost a trillion dollar, the estimate cost is about 5 trillion dollar after adjusted for inflation. So it doesn’t matter if you are rich or pool, you are getting punish by a factor of multitude.

Furthermore, He picked Sarah Palin to be vice president. Palin doesn’t have any experience or character to be a leader. No offense but McCain is old and sentinel. The guy can barely breath in his last debate, so umm… I think you get the point…

Clearly we can’t agree 100% with any candidate. But if you are truly concern about our freedom then you would understand why we need to election Obama/Biden for this election!

By: Deeply concern

Deeply concern — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:08:24 +0000

Most of you are young and probably are American Born Children or had left VN at a very young age. You have not lived thru the changing of the guards to realize that Freedom and the rights to live your lives without government interventions are something that your parents or grandparents had to fight for or had left all they know and love to seek them.

The more I listen to Obama’s speeches, ideas and plans the more they remind me of the Socialist ideas of Karl Maxx (This is one of the required subject that we had to learn in middle school after the Communist party took over South VN) and it sends chills down my spine. Socialist ideas and theologies sound very convincing and very earth moving in words but they do not apply well to real life situations especially in America when FREEDOM is what this country represents. Do you want the government to run everything in your life? Ask the Canadians how their Socialist HealthCare system work? How long do they have to wait at a medical clinic to see a doctor? Why do I want to punish a person who is smarter or has worked harder than me that he/she is better off than myself? This country is all about encouraging entrepreneurship, not about punishing successful individuals. Why should there be distribution of wealth? Are we so incompetent to advance ourselves that we need handouts from the government? Please travel the world on backpacks and see how others fair under a socialist or communist regime and you will think twice before voting for Obama.

Do not let the words of an eloquent theologist influent your thoughts and fuel your emotion? I understand that young people are very passionate and love to serve a good cause and that is the main reason why the socialist and communist parties have always been able to get support from the younger generation.

By: Thu Hoai

Thu Hoai — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:42:09 +0000

Sick in the head

By: Joseph

Joseph — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:57:56 +0000

The financial crisis from another perspective

By: TDK

TDK — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:51:30 +0000

I live in Australia, and hate politics.
Damn, that’s some hardcore discussions.

By: Hoang

Hoang — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:25:46 +0000

Joseph, speaking of one liner, to beat the game we must first learn the rules… Somehow I believe in Obama and his character :)

But I agree with everything you said. Of course Bush is not the only one to blame.