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Joined: 3/12/2008 Posts: 43 Location: Ontario
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k, this is going to sound totally blonde...but...Im gonna say it anyways, or rather ask it...)
What is this whole thing about? Who stands for what?
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Joined: 3/12/2008 Posts: 43 Location: Ontario
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everyone is reading this and shaking their heads aren't they?
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Joined: 3/5/2008 Posts: 101 Location: Kingston, Ontario
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Try: http://www.selectsmart.com/president/2008.html...or, alternatively, if you're voting based on whether or not the candidate has a small fishing village in Japan rooting for them, Obama's your man. On the other hand, if you favour voting based on whether or not the candidate has a transportation machine manufactured in Japan named after them, Clinton's your woman ( source).
4th Year Computer Science student at Queen's University finishing in April, 2008; starting a Masters in Human Computer Interaction shortly afterward (also at Queen's). e-mail: tim [at] timginn [dot] com
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Joined: 3/18/2008 Posts: 5 Location: ON
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Obama and Clinton are the democratic candidates competing against each other for the presidential election scheduled for Nov.4 this year.
Obama all the wayyy!!
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Joined: 3/12/2008 Posts: 43 Location: Ontario
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timginn wrote:Try: http://www.selectsmart.com/president/2008.html...or, alternatively, if you're voting based on whether or not the candidate has a small fishing village in Japan rooting for them, Obama's your man. On the other hand, if you favour voting based on whether or not the candidate has a transportation machine manufactured in Japan named after them, Clinton's your woman ( source). k so im doing that quiz thingg, but what is pro-business..and what is pro-labour? would pro-business be the big businesses take over the little businessses, and government gives more money to larger business then small? and is pro-labour about raising minimum wage, working conditions etc. ?
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Rank: Frosh Groups: Member
Joined: 3/12/2008 Posts: 43 Location: Ontario
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okay so I did that quiz, and I dont get it the %'s don't add up.
it said 100% for ideal theoretical condidate
64% for Hillary Clinton
64% for Obama
wth?
oh and Al Gore received a high precentage as well. He was the one that made that environmental movie...good movie. lol
so i still dont know..lol..am I for Obama or Hilary?
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Joined: 3/5/2008 Posts: 101 Location: Kingston, Ontario
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Apparently they both equally match your views and each agree with you on 64% of the issues... which probably means from your point of view it's not a very good thing if either of them win.
4th Year Computer Science student at Queen's University finishing in April, 2008; starting a Masters in Human Computer Interaction shortly afterward (also at Queen's). e-mail: tim [at] timginn [dot] com
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Joined: 3/12/2008 Posts: 43 Location: Ontario
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lmao okay well then im screwed,lol... but then again it doesnt really matter cuz im not american...yaay.
so that means they disagree with me on roughly 35% of the things I've said? How rude,lol.
Did you do the quiz? Who did you get?
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Joined: 3/23/2008 Posts: 10 Location: St. John's
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Obama for sure will win have you heard his speech called "A More Perfect Union"? A) He wrote it himself B) It is now ranked up with Martin Luther King Jr. speech "I Have a Dream"
If you haven't seen it go to youtube and search it. U will NOT be disappointed
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Joined: 3/23/2008 Posts: 8 Location: Canada
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If I could vote, I would vote for Clinton because I highly doubt a one-term senator (Obama) can accomplish the change he promises. He is too ignorant and Clinton is more experienced being the former first lady and all. And of course, there's the fact Hillary's a woman. Yes, I am a feminist.
But, I have to admit, Obama really knows how to make a speech.
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Joined: 3/5/2008 Posts: 1,728 Location: Wilfrid Laurier University
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sabrina wrote:If I could vote, I would vote for Clinton because I highly doubt a one-term senator (Obama) can accomplish the change he promises. He is too ignorant and Clinton is more experienced being the former first lady and all. And of course, there's the fact Hillary's a woman. Yes, I am a feminist.
But, I have to admit, Obama really knows how to make a speech. What exactly does being a First Lady have to do with experience? It's not even an elected position. As for voting for Clinton because she's a woman...that's just pathetic.
-Stringer
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Stringer wrote:sabrina wrote:If I could vote, I would vote for Clinton because I highly doubt a one-term senator (Obama) can accomplish the change he promises. He is too ignorant and Clinton is more experienced being the former first lady and all. And of course, there's the fact Hillary's a woman. Yes, I am a feminist.
But, I have to admit, Obama really knows how to make a speech. What exactly does being a First Lady have to do with experience? It's not even an elected position. As for voting for Clinton because she's a woman...that's just pathetic. maybe she means in terms of exposure and connections. I think there is something to be said because during the Clinton presidency Hillary wielded more power than most other first ladies have. As for the second part, yeah that is pathetic. It's like people who vote for obama because he's black.
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Joined: 3/7/2008 Posts: 558 Location: Newmarket
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According to that Test website thing I'm 87% for Obama and Stephen Colbert was my last choice
YORK; Honors Arts - History Major/German minor? '12
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i got Barack Obama and Dennis Kucinich as my top choices, but i've done another test (that i thought was carried out better) where i was much more overwhelmingly Kucinich
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Joined: 3/5/2008 Posts: 167 Location: Toronto
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sabrina wrote:If I could vote, I would vote for Clinton because I highly doubt a one-term senator (Obama) can accomplish the change he promises. He is too ignorant and Clinton is more experienced being the former first lady and all. And of course, there's the fact Hillary's a woman. Yes, I am a feminist.
But, I have to admit, Obama really knows how to make a speech. Voting for Hillary because she's a woman, has society really regressed this far? Its sexism and its backwards thinking. If all the males voted for a male candidate it would be sexism. And being married to a president isn't exactly experience. Besides, she said a VP should be fit to be president, then she said Barack isn't fit to be president, and then she wants him (even though she's in second place) to be VP. Its like playing the in the world championships, being down 3-2 in the third period, and telling the other team that you'd be proud to have them win silver. And what about what she has actually said? How about that for ignorance? -She supported the war; in 2007 at the Take Back America conference she said a timed withdrawal would be reckless; then once she ran for prez she said she would start a troop withdrawal in 60 days; now she's not mentioning it. -She somehow thinks she has control over the Fed reserve and can freeze interest rates at 2.25%, a phenomenally terrible idea. In a time of massive inflation, the housing crisis, and the impending credit issue, she's going to freeze interest rates for FIVE years?! 5 Years of a piss-low rate means that 1CDN will soon equal half of the United States! And why 5, a term is only 4 years... -She and her husband seem to endorse McCain everytime then can, yet they put down Obama -She's trying to win with foreign policy despite the fact that that is exactly McCain's strong point... -Despite the fact that he wasn't allowed to be on the ballot or to campaign, she thinks the Floridian and Michigan delegates should be seated.... -Is under the insane belief that the states she has won are states that Obama would lose in the general election. Come on! Its the other way around, a polarizing figure like her would have more trouble winning the states that he's won (and he's won more states than she has!) The two of them are very similar in their policies, but not as people. I don't see Hillary making it past Obama (unless the superdelegates really tow the line for her) and I definitely do not see her getting past McCain.
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Joined: 3/23/2008 Posts: 6 Location: vancouver
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i believe Obama has a bit more ability than hilary. but i did notice a lot of my teachers believe hilary can win, it is because she is ex-first lady?
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Joined: 3/24/2008 Posts: 9 Location: Ste. Rose
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Well even though im not voting, Obama all the way. Hilary Clinton is trying her hardest to get the press against Obama. Give it up, your not in gr.6...
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