Long story short:

I am happy Obama won, because I like him better than McCain. (various issues including abortion, tax plan etc.) I can’t help but feel like he won it for all the wrong reasons though.

Also, cant wait for the new GF cd. Hope it is good man

Please face the fact that you are extremely well off and in the broader scheme of things, if anyone is asked to make sacrifices, it’s going to be you, because there are so many people in lower and middle class America that have been sacrificing every day of their goddamn lives, and you reap the benefits of what their taxation pays for.

@Adam: I agree with your optimism, but metal is still, unfortunately, a white man’s sport. I’m glad to see it changing too, but we have a long way to go. Even here on MetalSucks, a community of metalheads who are at least slightly more open-minded than on Blabbermouth, we have a lot of racist assholes. So, here’s to the future, bro. Keep carrying the torch, Dallas.

And for my part, coming from Australia, Obama deserved his victory. McCain had the right ideas, it was just his pick of people to surround him that let him down.

PALIN 2012! … shit. did I just say that? Someone shoot me.

My father owns 2 small companies. He currently is doing shitty due to the economic crisis. However with the soon to be democratic president as well as a congress and senate, taxes will inevitably be raised. With the raise of taxes, my dad’s company will be making even less profit. Thus he will be forced to lay off workers…

Now people say well Obama wont raise taxes if you make below 250,000.

BULLSHIT.

Presidents RARELY get to do what they want. They sit in their office and either sign or veto bills shit that lands on their desk.

If congress wants to lower that amount, they easily can, and I guarantee you the final number will be closer to 100 – 150k

I can proudly add that I did my part in helping turn Bexar County (San Antonio) from red to blue with a 16-point turnaround from 2004. Amazingly, Harris County (Houston) also went for Obama this year which astounds me to no end.

Remember, we were also the home to such late famed Texas liberals as LBJ, Ann Richards, Barbara Jordan, and Molly Ivins. Now if we can just find some living, breathing liberals to take up their mantle, there might be hope for my state just yet.

You live in the greatest nation in the world you piece of shit, give a little, and stop being such a fucking coward, everyone here has the balls to express their beliefs instead of criticizing everyone else’s, yet you admit to being too cowardly to even fess up instead of bitching and whining.

Unfortunately for America it seems that it will, because it want’s to judge Obama on the actions he has yet to carry out rather than those he has already done.

Paul, approval ratings mean nothing, when Bush was elected he initially had a 56 per cent approval rating, that’s higher than Barrack Obama has now at 52, there is always a clean sheet when a fresh face comes into play.

Dallas, like it or not, a man’s friends say a lot about him as a character and Obama is bringing a lot of bankers and Zionists into his team, you think the company you keep wouldn’t affect you because you have a strong mind, but Obama is paying these people for their opinions and knowledge so he has to let it affect him.

In regards to the “making it” comment, yes, because America is the biggest audience for western popular culture, it is the biggest market for the biggest winners but also for the biggest losers. There is a huge cultural divide which is set to become ever bigger.

This is what people buy into when they come to America, that because there is a bigger market they have more chance of “making it” – what they forget is that everyone else is fighting against them for their piece of glory. The American dream is just a con, it is so far out of reach for most Americans because their are always much more losers than winners.

Capitalist western culture is based on this winner takes all mentality, that is that we should fuck our brothers and sisters over for our own gain, for every millionaire there’s ten families sitting on $20000 a year.

As for the world opposing America, yes this would be because of its determination to inflict “capitalism and democracy” on every country it see’s fit, but you seem to think that the world is against you, hardly, there are a good number of western countries that are willing to jump into bed with America without question, the weak are attracted to power whether to oppose it or to mindlessly fight with it.

Capitalism is failing however, it is strangling itself, so we’ll see how long this crazy system lasts.

We’re going to be a bunch of commies in the next few years.

I personally decided to vote for Obama because I found a lot of McCain’s ideas to be recycled and dead.He sounded like he was reading from a script at all times and when debating with Obama often brought out questionable numbers and tried to sway people with little things blown out of proportion to the point where Barrack himself actually put his face in his hand and started to chuckle.McCain was running a race that he could not win fairly and he tried to slander Obama, and to McCain’s dismay, Obama didn’t bite back.The only Obama ad I ever saw was the one where McCain tried to shit on him and say “I’m not President Bush,” and then showed the interview clip of McCain wiping W’s jizz off his lips.The fact that people overseas support us again means a great deal, whether anyone believes it or not.And the fact is that Barrack does have good ideas, and if he can execute them all remains to be seen, but it’s been a long time since good ideas have come from Pennsylvania Avenue.In fact, forget color, this man wants to end the pride war that has smeared our country’s worth and reinvest our own money into rebuilding the great nation we once had.

Owen, you don’t believe in the change that Obama promised?Here it is on a silver platter.Look at Bush’s approval ratings and see how many people were proud Americans as little as 6 months ago.Now ask how many people are proud of this country as of Wednesday.I assure the numbers for the latter will be significantly higher.

And Dallas, I’m just curious.What is your stance on the Proposition 8 controversy?I’m for gay marriage and while I think it is shitty that this right is being taken away from these people, after just being given it only months earlier, to actually have a court case to try and overturn the 18,000 marriages that have already been performed in the state is absolutely preposterous and is unconstitutional if anything in our history ever was.Also, why do you feel the sates will eventually secede?Just curious on your take on the matter.

-Paul

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Love.

read the constitution brother, read the founding fathers concerns about this country. voting has become some kind of golden god in this country that it was never intended to be. we are a republic, bound just as much by the set in stone rules of the constitution as the whims of the people. the architects of this country viewed straight up democracy as mob rule, the vote is one of many checks and balances, not the essence of this country. obama reflects the same interventionist, big government, executive branch abuse of power policies that got us where we are, and he wont change shit. black and white is the absolute least of this countries worries at this point. he just pulled all the right heartstrings and took advantage of america being sick of eight years of george bush.

we are fucked.