The idolized Obama

[emzie]

Sure - every elections it's the same: "change", "nation at crossroads", "most important elections ever" etc.

Obama is just another presidential candidate. No, he won't change America in any profound way; no, he won't be much different from the previous presidents; no, he's not a messiah.

It seems to me that America is all about image, substance is irrelevant.

So it doesn't matter which politician wins?

 

[alcal]

You're meaning he's not arrogant then?! I know there's been some accusations about him being elitist and arrogant, but other than him looking arrogant and him being an educated and articulated person - is there any substance to these accusations that you can back up?

As you believe he will be a good leader, i believe he is arrogant and elitist. Just a question of personal opinions

 

[Bill3000]

The Benevolent Gentleman is charismatic and a master at winning elections. However, he lacks the character to be truly successful at the nation's helm. When things get rough, he merely smiles and waits out the winds of political opinion.

 

[Loppan Torkel]

As you believe he will be a good leader, i believe he is arrogant and elitist. Just a question of personal opinions

Fair enough.

The Benevolent Gentleman is charismatic and a master at winning elections. However, he lacks the character to be truly successful at the nation's helm. When things get rough, he merely smiles and waits out the winds of political opinion.

"The Benevolent Gentleman" - is it some kind of charactertype? Or is it your personal opinion? If it is - why do you think he lacks character? That's not the image I have of him...

 

[Ammar]

As you believe he will be a good leader, i believe he is arrogant and elitist. Just a question of personal opinions

Those things aren't even contradictory, though.

 

[Shekwan]

So it doesn't matter which politician wins?

Unless he gets two terms I don't think he'll be able to change too much.

 

[Naval Power]

The Benevolent Gentleman is charismatic and a master at winning elections. However, he lacks the character to be truly successful at the nation's helm. When things get rough, he merely smiles and waits out the winds of political opinion.

HOI2 for the win!

 

[Cato the Elder]

I voted for other. My answer lies somewhere between the first two. I don't believe he'll accomplish everything he wants/promises, but I do believe he's a rather exceptional man, and America will have undergone some change (with a little luck also some hope) at the end of his term.

 

[Loppan Torkel]

HOI2 for the win!

Thanks, I thought there was a bit more substance to it than that, heh

I voted for other. My answer lies somewhere between the first two. I don't believe he'll accomplish everything he wants/promises, but I do believe he's a rather exceptional man, and America will have undergone some change (with a little luck also some hope) at the end of his term.

It sounds like the first option to me, he doesn't need to be superman...

 

[jeps]

IMO, He might suffer a little bit of Tzipi Livni's fate. he might be TOO good to work with politicians. however, i have yet to see that from him, so he might accomplish things.

 

[Archbob]

No, he's pretty much the same as any other politician. He may win the election but it won't be much different.

 

[@N1k1T0$]

Obama is idolized because of his competitors.

 

[GenMarshall]

No, he's pretty much the same as any other politician. He may win the election but it won't be much different.

Care to explain how it wont be any different?

 

[Loki130]

Obama will do something, something else will happen as a result, and in a few years no one will really care anyway

 

[Archbob]

Care to explain how it wont be any different?

Because his platform is pretty much the same as any other democratic platform, the guy above me said it best.


Although if he manages to go SSJ before the election, I may vote for him.

 

[Winner]

Ah, so those people in Berlin weren't really cheering?

Naivety isn't limited to America. But when you look at how Germans see their own politicians and how they take politics, they'd never support any of them so much and so ardently (because the last one they loved turned out to be a bit of a genocidal maniac).

 

[Loppan Torkel]

Naivety isn't limited to America. But when you look at how Germans see their own politicians and how they take politics, they'd never support any of them so much and so ardently (because the last one they loved turned out to be a bit of a genocidal maniac).

Yea, Angela can be a bit loony at times

 

[alcal]

Unless he gets two terms I don't think he'll be able to change too much.

Bush changed world in one term with his war on terror.

 

[jessiecat]

Bush changed world in one term with his war on terror.

Didn't he just? Two unwinnable wars, a hundred times more terrorists than there ever were
before, thousands of innocent lives lost, America hated more than at any time in history, and
to top it off, a world-wide economic slump. He really changed the world alright. Hats off to GWB!

 

[LightFang]

Didn't he just? Two unwinnable wars, a hundred times more terrorists than there ever were
before, thousands of innocent lives lost, America hated more than at any time in history, and
to top it off, a world-wide economic slump. He really changed the world alright. Hats off to GWB!

He didn't say he changed the world for the better.

;D