2012-11-06, 12:38 PM
Flonne Wrote:I'm not a fan of Romney, and I doubt too many people are; most people that are voting for Romney are doing so because his faults when lined up with Obama's are outweighed to the point that they become miniscule by comparison.To me, he just seems like another G.W.Bush... the kind of person who'll start a war on Syria/Iran and let the poor pay for all the costs. And looking at the values republicans have and the amount of extremists, fundamentalists etc. in the party I definitely wouldn't want one here to replace the current US ambassador in Finland who's pineappleing awesome as a person. Also, what I don't get is why Obama is blamed for not fixing the mess Bush made or for "not changing enough" when, as far as I know, republicans voted against the changes Obama tried to make. They wanted change and now when "change" didn't happen they vote against the "change".
Most people just don't understand why because the media doesn't really cover any of the things that Obama does WRONG, only what he does RIGHT (right in their eyes; I still feel a lot of those things they count as plusses are in fact not).
So, not bringing his faults into this is entirely impossible, because that is the entire basis of this election; if it stood a shot at winning, Republicans would vote for a domesticated animal over Obama, at this point. And I don't blame them, not one bit.
These are my few cents as a foreign person. Many Americans probably underline different issues and that's okay. I actually voted a party with more republican views on economy but you can't really compare because Finland is an abundantly socialist country.
Biggest problem I see with US is the two-party system. Finland has 8 parties in the parliament and I still can't find one that I could honestly say I like. If we only had two, I don't even know if I would bother voting.