OT: US Pres election

[JimMorrison]

Originally Posted by Trumanator

Well, as far as I'm concerned Obama just doesn't have the qualifications. The whole "world opinion" argument really doesn't hold water with me, since we're not electing a world leader. I think that you elect whoever's best for YOUR country. Sorry, but there's quite a few countries that I don't respect their government that much.

Well the problem being that the US has in fact tried to take on the mantle of "world leader". I'm not so much talking about their collective opinions per se (somehow humanity puts more focus on opinion than truth, probably because it's easier to find!), but the fact that the nation is not a self-contained entity, and in fact cannot sustain itself in our current style without very deep relations with many other nations.

So what we are faced with today, is that everyone (especially our leaders, who should not be so) tends to be a bit shortsighted, because the scale of world relations has grown so rapidly over the last few decades, that it is hard to fathom.


It's for this reason that I don't run around screaming about how cool Obama is. Also because of the incestual nature of our political system - but mainly because his concept of change is to do the same things, in different ways. The only actual hope that he gives me, is that he inspires such hopefulness in so many others, that maybe people really will recognize a better way if it is offered to them, and we can finally grow up. Not just as individuals, or as a nation - but as a global entity, because that is what humanity is now, and we can never go back to our childhood.

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