@ac

Do you understand that the US war industry must thrive to keep thousands of Americans employed and its economy working?

You are naive if you think other wise. The Iraq post construction period is an example. Now we have Libya? Who will be next?

On 5 November 2012 10:08, Barbados Underground

@Observing

Correct, Obama has the option to print money which is the comfort the greenback being used as the world’s reserve currency gives him and that is all.

and by the way david all the construction in those countries the products/materials. are being made in china which gives even a better boost economically than america, What JOBS. those days are over america no longer controls the manufacturing of the world.

It never ceases to amaze me how quickly the real feelings come to the surface when, after the courting period is over and the honeymoon is done, the real emotions come to the surface.

Obama!

As incompetent as Reagan, Bush by two, Carter Nixon et al were, they were all referred to by their pundits and detractors as President so and so but i would ask each of you to watch and see how this black President is being called Obama!

I smiled when Mitt Romney commented how “Obama” was on a campaign mission while the American Ambassador was killed in the Middle East.

I recall how President Bush, war criminal in waiting, was seated at a spelling bee when a Secret Service agent came to him and told him that the World Trade towers had been hit by aircraft. He did not move from the spelling bee, but sat there with his normal glazy eyed look while the symbol of American prosperity imploded, ostensibly due to aircraft hitting the towers, but in reality, due to the explosives in the demolition devices in the doomed towers.

No one recalls that absence while Rome fell. But they can so easily recall how the Black man Obama was, during a national election, campaigning!

History will recall how a black man, in a country where racism is alive and well, came to a White House, (assuredly one to be repainted when he leaves, tomorrow or in four years) and attempted to “change” the stranglehold that big business has on the US economy OBAMACARE et al.

When Obama first got in his administrators were entralled by the euphoria of Time for Change but the reality was/is that it met with the entrenched machinery that US business command. Losing a majority in the Senate did not help, neither did the economic meltdown, subprime mortgages, and ill advised 10 year Bush x 2 invoked wars.

Time has shown that the industrial machinery would prefer to grind itself to a halt that support any economic policies that a President of Colour would institute, especially if the possibility exists that they would work so we the “illuminati dispose that we will NOT support this presidency…selah”

For those of us, in the castle of our skins, President Obama shines and will shine for us across this world, irrespective of whether the President is returned to office or otherwise.

For many of them who voted, and do not fool yourself millions of white people voted for President Obama, 23 million black votes aint enough to get no black man in the While House, it was an experiment, they just could not believe it when he got in, it was supposed to be an “also ran”.

But watch now as the real America stands up to be counted.

You have done well President Barach Obama … long will you live in the memories of those of us that Plymouth Rock fell on”

Your four years has put 400 years of Slavery in the USA on display to the world and tomorrow will be the litmus test of whether it was just a lark or if America is tired of this sleeping legacy.

Jimmy Carter wanted to return the Panama Canal to the Panamanians by the end of the last century. He was never returned to office for a second term (was it called the October Surprise …?). Manuel Noriega wanted to follow through on Carter’s promise and now he is still in Prison, this time in his native Panama. JFK refused to move on Cuba in support of the Italian Mafia, and the Cuban immigrants, both of whom had lost a lot of interest there, and paid for it with his life. The Government of the United States of America are NOT the good guys, peoples … they never have been.

The boom was in the clinton era then along came bush and dessimated the billons of dollars left in surplus in backing make believe wars in suport of nation building and Cheney and his goons meanwhile all the manufacturing jobsare going to chinawith no end in sight next comes along the icing on the cake with bank closures real estate markets on a downward spiral and the inevitable destruction of world marketswhat economic boom underthe bush administration complte disaster and would be continued by Romney

my grandfather used to tell us never to trust men who walk like animals because invariably they have beast-like qualities.

Romney walks like a penguin and shakes (and waves his) hands like if he has some sort of a locomotoral disorder.

Mormon priests who hide cheat cards during Presidential debates are not men to be trusted as Presidents with access to nuclear bomb codes, or as Commander in Chief of the US Armed Forces irrespective of how good a business man they are purported to be.

Michael Lashley and Toppin are purported to be a good business men too and look how Lashes going get extradite

Win, lose or draw tomorrow many believe President Obama is an enigma of US politics. Some suggest it will not repeat itself. A divisive US legislature in the last four years is a reality which we must confront. Was the lack of support a race issue or does the Republican side feel his policies are bad?

….wise men think alike….etc

a chane to do what
Wunna gave the DLP a chance in Barbados
Romney deserves a chance to do what
Tell me !

how can any one forget the jobs bill which was rejected by the republicans .the party of NO obama gonna win this race again because of the blantant racism that the republicans dished out against minorities rember the 40% comment by ROMNEY.

yeah the polls call for a close race nothing to debate there but nothing wrong with looking at the facts that are driving the polls.

@ ac | November 5, 2012 at 3:56 PM |

I have a preference for President Obama and under differing circumstances would wish to see him return for a second term.
But President Obama will be the ultimate lame duck President.
With no majority support in both houses how can a second term president ever make any major impact unless he wages war?

I do not want President Obama to go down in history as the “coloured” president who bombed Iran along with Israel and set alight a holy war between the Jews and Christians on one side and the poor Muslim jihadists world on the other.

Would the Chinese that own America listen or pay attention to the threats from a ‘coloured’ lame ineffectual second term President?

Obama 300+ electoral votes, Democratic Senate and Republican House.

@ Miller

And what were the major changes in the first term?

BTW, Nate Silver and http://www.fivethirtyeight.com were independent put the NY Times paid him a ton of money to come under their banner after the spectacular accuracy of his predictions in 2008 and 2010.

@ Observing

What intangibles?

If you mean stopping people from voting as is happening in several states, especially Florida; or that the voting machines in Ohio are owned by people connected to Tagg Romney, Mitt Romney’s son, then I see how those things cannot be measured.

In 2000 thousands of blacks were intimidated and prevented from voting especially in Palm Beach County, Florida. If they had voted, Gore would have been president instead of Bush.

In 2003, the Diebold machines were owned by republicans and contributed to Kerry’s loss. So these factors are very significant

Another factor would be the Get Out the Vote effort on both sides. In a close election, that effort makes all the difference. That why the republican controlled state governments in many of the swing states have placed so much emphasis on voter suppression among groups that traditionally vote for democrats.

Also, some of the statistical models take into consideration the possibility of inherent systematic statistical bias (not just random error) in the polls and try to place a number on it.

Nate Silver’s model deals with that explicitly: one reason he has Obama with 86% probability of winning vs others that have the number at 95% and above.

As I said before, improbable things do happen all the time. People win lotteries all the time where the odds are millions to one against them. There is a good chance (14/100) that Romney can still win. Those are not bad odds.

@ Robert Ross
and the show goes on…because he happens to be black…….great stuff Rock
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What’s your point? People in the Caribbean have generally supported the Democrat nominee for President whether their names happen to be Jimmy Carter; Walter Mondale; Michael Dukakis; Bill Clinton; Al Gore or John Kerry all of whom happen to be “white”. If “Rock” supports Obama it doesn’t mean he agrees with everything that he has done.

Since you mentioned Benghazi let me dig up a little history, the last President whom the Republicans want to canonize – Reagan- lost 241 marines in Lebanon in 1983 after being explicitly warned by his Defence Secretary not to deploy American troops there as part of any “peacekeeping force” there. Reagan has an Airport named after him and they want to put his image up on Mount Rushmore (and he raised taxes too).

So who are you supporting?

Not to belabour the point, but the latest polls show a 5.5 points shift towards Obama among independents since last week. This is an average among several national polls.

Sarge
Why you have to confuse peeps with the facts?

it puzzles me how the same people who root for the democratic party wants lord nelson removed because he owned slaves when history records that the democratic party was the party of slavery in the usa with robert byrd a klu klax khan member holding high office in the democratic party up to his death.another thing is we condemn white people who oppose or don’t vote with obama as racists and castigate the blp for their purported connections with white business. so puzzling.

national poll shows obama slowly forging ahead of Romney !

@ Checkit Out
“I however hope Obama wins because he eminently deserves to do so.”
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Normally Bushie resonates with your well thought out positions, but are you not being a bit emotional here?

Now follow the bushman…….. because Bushie ALSO thinks that Obama deserves to win, However you seem to be suggesting that BO should win because he is a “GOOD” fellow and that the USA deserves such a president.

Bushie thinks that he deserves to win because everyone and every society always gets exactly what they deserve…..and the USA deserves BO.
…a product of Chicago, possibly the most crooked city on earth
…a sweet talking, friendly, lovable fellow, who have accelerated George Bush’s wars on anyone who fails to toe the US line.
…who have perfected the art of “Drone murder” with impunity.

BO is ideally suited to lead the USA into their demise

LOL
Of course Romney would also do a great job of that. Indeed he is more likely to accelerate the process, but somehow Karma seems to be better served with OB in charge…. 🙂

@ David
It is not Obama’s flank that is exposed, it is the USA’s. That very debt is their undoing. Anyone who believed that Obama could reduce the Debt in four years is of the type to be comforted by promises.

Same here in Barbados.

Here we are spending MORE every year than we are earning, and you are telling Bushie, that because of political expediency, this will have to continue ad infinitum.
We have idiot politicians PROMISING that there will be no layoffs, no cuts to Health, Education,Transport….NUTTON!! …..AND AT THE SAME TIME, they will lower VAT.
Those promises can only be comforting to Onions and his ilk.

Lastly, you have the Governor of the Central Bank going all the way to Japan to argue that devaluation is untenable “because it is not the best solution for us”.
When did “what is best for Barbados” become a major factor in real life?

Bushie can tell you what a major factor in real life is…. “You can only spend more than you earn for a time”… After that time is up, your a$$ will be in the grass.

Will we hear ANY POLITICIAN ANYWHERE outlining a comprehensive plan to MODIFY our lifestyles so that we can live within our means? ….OF COURSE NOT.

…we prefer to be comforted by promises and let our children deal with the grass…..except that WE are now those “children” who must pay the piper…..