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| Not anyone with a vagina can replace Hilary ClintonI am an Obama supporter. I never rooted for Clinton, but I respected her, as as women, we ought to give her a lot of credit for having a ground-breaking campaign.
When I heard that McCain chose Sarah Palin as VP, I felt insulted, offended, and it is so blatantly obvious what he's doing here - wooing dissatisfied supporters of Clinton. But unlike Palin, Clinton has substance. To me, Palin is just a poster girl for conservative values - anti-abortion, pro-creationism, etc etc etc. She is a more friendly-faced Ann Coulter (by the way, a total bitch). If McCain dies in office, this naive, inexperienced governor, who believed that the earth was created 4000 years ago, would be the ruler of the free world.
Some might say that Obama is just as inexperienced; and I won't argue that he has a resume as thick as that of Clinton, but Obama is rational, smart, and "elitist." What is so disturbing about having an "elitist" education? Isn't our leader supposed to be the brightest? You like a common Joe because you want to be able to "relate" to them? That's fine. That common Joe and I can sit for a cup of coffee, and chat and all is well, but to give him executive power, that's crazy. Good governance doesn't depend on whether or not the president can chug down a can of beer like a regular person (George Bush certainly can... and many many cans of beer), it relies on a very high level of quality education and superior intelligence. Sarah Palin is cute, really cute, but cute is not what we're aiming for. I say, give her a few seconds to shine, after all, this is a Cinderella story. But really, she's just being used by the Republican party as a political tool to fool women voters, and I feel sorry for her.
P.S. Palin's daughter is living proof that abstinence-only education really works! Can't wait for the wedding.
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| motherf*cker i'm ill.. not sick<3 lil wayne.
6 days till home sweet home. Minnesota has been great, but I don't want to work anymore.
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| Why So Serious.............
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| With hands tied, what can you do?A few years ago, U.S.'s attitude towards China was one of unrestrained disapproval and discomfort, perhaps because of all of China's atrocious human rights violations, all its utter disregard for environmental conservation, or just with its apparent mind-washing communist propaganda. But a few things have changed since then. The U.S. owes so much money to the China, who is currently holding trillions of dollars (and can release them onto the global market any time, screwing over the U.S. economy). The U.S. is still rather... uncomfortable with China's meteoric rise as an economic power, but... this time, political pressure and military threats will do very little in terms of diplomacy.
Money owns all. Even the United States.
So now with its hands tied, the U.S., though still criticizing China on a number of things (supplying the Sudanese government with weapons, and of course, the Tibet ordeal), the government chooses to run a very cautious course. Unlike both Obama and Hillary Clinton, who both criticized China's handling of Tibetan riot, George Bush did not issue a harsh statement, and agreed on attending the opening ceremony of the Olympics. Sarkozy actually had some balls in boycotting the Olympics, but we knew that was just a front. China knows no one can mess with it, and it's taking full advantage of its leverages. But how long can this last? We all know that China's getting too pricey for certain investors, with its appreciation of the RMB and its infamous backdoor negotiations, soon, corporations will take their fat checks to somewhere else (Vietnam), until they use up the resources of that country, and move to somewhere else cheaper. This gives me a headache whenever I think about it.
I am still attached to China on so many levels. Even though I'm a U.S. citizen, I identify with being fully Chinese. Hence, I'm always so ambivalent about U.S.-China relationship. I worry about the prosperity of the U.S., as more jobs are shipped to the other parts of the globe - I worry about China's economic future, because honestly, what goes up always comes down, and if it went up this fast so spectacularly, it will also fall so hard that the entire economic structure, if not the entire social structure, will be wrecked.
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