Election Selection Simplified

Nice Republican propaganda, from the likes who gave us the present incompetent administration. Thanks.

It's pretty scary that people are willing to support a loon that joyfully sings about bombing Iran. That would definitely help our foreign relations. It is also a very simpleton approach to stretch names to match Al Queda leaders. Then again, who would trust a person's opinion when they by "Sly".

Amended my typo: It's pretty scary that people are willing to support a loon that joyfully sings about bombing Iran. That would definitely help our foreign relations. It is also a very simpleton approach to stretch names to match Al Queda leaders. Then again, who would trust a person's opinion when they go by "Sly".

If you think that the name of the perhaps future President of the USA sounds a bit like say.... Arab, you may be right (although his first name is also Hebrew, and I never heard that Lincoln's first name (among many others) was a problem....). If you think that is bad, you may find some consolation in the fact that one of the greatest heroes against the Germans in WWII was General D. Eisenhauer (family from Karlsbrunn, Saarland, Germany, changed from the original German to Eisenhower). Just to remind you, he was elected twice to the office of President of the USA. Ypotrofos.

Mr Y, somewhat valid point although regardless of your last name, being a General in the US Army demonstrates a certain almost unreachable level of loyalty and service.

you cannot compare a 4-year senator to a 4-star general...no matter what their names are!

I have a few responses to this page and the subsequent comments that follow. First and foremost, though I do not necessarily align myself politically with the creator of this page, I commend him for contributing to the democratic discourse much needed (and very much missing) in our public culture. It is obvious that the page-maker did not set out to sway his audience with a concrete argument. Obviously there are many gaps in his "Barrack has a yucky name" argument, but what he did do was voice an opinion and generate discourse and for that, I commend him. Now to comment on the commenters- shame on your for keeping yourselves anonymous. We live in a democracy. As the demos, your voices are required for our government to work. Unfortunately administrations of recent have squashed our democratic sensibilities and gagged us with our own flag using shortsighted enthymemes such as: "You're either with us, or against us." But we know better. Life is more complicated then that. And so when you read a page like this instead of allowing yourself to knit pick an already shaky argument, be grateful that a page like this can exist in a country like this. Be grateful that you can comment beneath it and add to the democratic forum. So, Sly, even though I think your a dick for coming down on my girl, Hillary, I give your props for putting yourself out there and behaving like a responsible democratic citizen.

Response to Comments #5-6: Obviously you cannot compare a great historical figure with an open book. My point was not that. On the other hand, if you read WWII History you will find out that Gen. Eisenhower had never held an active command and was far from being considered as a potential commander of major operations on on the eve of the U.S. entry into World War II, less than 4 years before being appointed Allied Supreme Commander. My point was that we should be more considerate and avoid negative irrelevant propaganda about our present or future leaders based on ethnic or gender stereotypes. Ypotrofos.

Hillary all the way!

For those of you who voted that legalizing marijuana is your if biggest political agenda, you got to be kidding me!!! I sincerely hope you a joking...

Legalizing marijuana seems a far more clearly defined and attainable political goal than magically "fixing" the environment, U.S. immigration, America's entanglement in Iraq, or the U.S. Healthcare system. Regardless, within the finite set of choices in the survey, it happens to stand out as the option least subject to empty campaign propaganda.

"McCain" - the name seems suspiciously Irish-Catholic, potentially threatening the solid Protestant foundation of our great nation. Papal conspiracy, anyone? (Actually, it seems John McCain is of Scots-Irish ancestry and a self-identifying Episcopalian who has regularly attended a Baptist Church, so even his victory would not unseat JFK as history's sole Roman Catholic President of the United States.) Meanwhile, I'd be hard-pressed to imagine a name that sounds more oppressively WASPish than "Hillary Rodham Clinton" - I suppose it would have to be male, with some Roman numerals tacked on to the end for good measure. Of course, I'm posting anonymously, just as I vote anonymously in our Democratic society, in the craven hope that I won't be subject to the oppression of the state, political parties, vigilantes, hooligans, or others among my fellow citizens. Anyway, my name is yucky.

The problems listed don't need "magical" fixing, they call for rational solutions. A country that produces one or more Nobel laureates/year can do more than just legalize marihuana. Its time to elect competent modern leaders that do not pander to jingoism and obscurantism. Let there be light! Ypotrofos Skoteinogenitos.

My previous posting is not in response to "Yucky" but to the previous anonymous user who likes to smoke without empty campaign propaganda. I could not even try to answer "Yucky", I could not figure out what was his apparently relgiocentric point. Y.S.

really?? did the question "Could you imagine a white candidate whose church's goals were for the advancement of the caucasion race?" appear? not to mention, the thought of pushing afro-centric propoganda onto america? (while jimi hendrix "playing 'the star spangled banner' no less) oh yes, no american presidental candidate could have ever had a racially motivated agenda before barrack.