Keystone going....going.....gone..

I have never understood voters who want a'man of the people' for President or Prime Minister.Someone you could have a beer with?I mean, why, for heavens sake.We used to have a Prime Minister here who pretended to be that, Harold Wilson, back in the 1960's he would pose with a glass of ale in his hand and a pipe in his mouth, all for the cameras.Now we have Nigel Farage leader of the UKIP party who does exactly the same, and the voters fall for it.No wonder that Winston Churchill said'the best arguement against democracy is to spend five minutes talking to the average voter !'
 

I think it's more being able to "believe" he/she understands. In small populations, I think it would be easy to kind of have a man/woman, you know, like some small towns buddy along with their elected officials, but it can't be that way in a huge population I don't think. I just like to feel like that person understands and wants to help. All I expect is for them to try. I don't expect miracles out of the mess we have goin on in the US.
 
Ameriscot said:
You don't really want to know the truth about him, do you?

His given name is Barack. He went to school in Indonesia for a couple of years because his mother and stepfather were living there. Indonesia is Muslim, therefore the schools are Muslim. So what? Oh right, I forgot, you think all Muslims are terrorists. And Obama is Christian, but I couldn't care less if he was Muslim, atheist, pagan, whatever.
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This had me intrigued so I looked it up. It's not hard to find details.

Barack Obama spent three and a half years being schooled in Indonesia which is a country with a majority of muslims but it was a secular democracy living in post colonial times when Obama was there. He did not attend a muslim religious school. He is not a muslim and never has been. I think the school named after St Francis of Assisi is a bit of a giveaway.

From ages six to ten, Obama attended local Indonesian-language schools: St. Francis of Assisi Catholic School for two years and Besuki Public School for one and a half years, supplemented by English-language Calvert School homeschooling by his mother
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The rest of his education was in Hawaii, Los Angeles and New York.
 

Good stuff you gathered Dame, and it's really funny when I think about it. I didn't have that much against Obama, only that I admit I bought into a lot of the fears about "who he was" and it wasn't coming clear, not that I could see back then. Then he was elected, and honestly, I accepted it and started praying (at the time). I've gone through some things with my beliefs. Ok, I digress, but what has disturbed me has NOT been Obama at all, it is the attitudes of a handful of people that "seem" to attack any opinion except their own. I don't trust folks like that. I was taught to see where people were right, all people. Every deserves an opinion, or no one does.

I have strongly disagreed with people separating, like we're gonna have a civil war again or something, or worse, while we're busy tearing each other apart, someone will make mince-meat out of the US. Anyway, it's kind of like "you try and beat me to death with your opinion, or tell me any idea or thought or question I have doesn't count because only you are right" I simply will not listen to people like that.

As far as I'm concerned, from my own observances, President Obama has done ok, we are still standing, America is still standing, so for that, I feel he deserves credit. I mean even if he didn't want America to stand, and he failed, that's a good thing, right. Now we are going to start trying to figure out who to vote for next. I can only hope the majority picks well.
 
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