The next U.S. President (for non-US members only)

I would like McCain if it weren't for the fact that I don't wanna get drafted.  

ClemofNazareth wrote: Let's at least get the facts right then. �Western Europe is in fact a minor trade partner with the U.S. �In fact, Canada and Mexico are our largest trade partners. �46% of our export trade and more than half of our import business is with Canada, Mexico, Japan and China. �The UK accounts for only about 4% of exports and Germany about the same in imports - all of the other European countries�have�less�trade�than�that�with�us. �Korea and the Middle East also pale in comparison to our own continent and the Far East in trade, yet the heaviest concentration of our military might, expenditures and international policy attention have been on these areas for years.

  Here are the trade numbers for 2007 in billions $ (excluding December, no data yet)

stonebeard wrote: I've been told he doesn't know sh*t about the economy. But overall, he's my favorite candidate.

I would say you've heard wrong.

Ghost Rider wrote: jimmy_row wrote: 1 vote for McCain, Romney, Huckabee, and Guliani combined...god I love this place!   I wish you guys could come over and vote in November Hopefully I will already be in the US by November, but unfortunately I won't be able to vote for a long time... Who knows, perhaps in 2012 I will!

Say, have you memorized all that stuff us US Americans should know but don't, so you can pass your citizenship test?

By the way if you're one of those stinkin' liberal feringners trying to sneak your way into this country and corrupt it, you've got my support 100%.


Edited by Slartibartfast - January 28 2008 at 07:58

Ghost Rider wrote: jimmy_row wrote: 1 vote for McCain, Romney, Huckabee, and Guliani combined...god I love this place!   I wish you guys could come over and vote in November Hopefully I will already be in the US by November, but unfortunately I won't be able to vote for a long time... Who knows, perhaps in 2012 I will!

 it'll be too late by then, I'll be drafted...but as Slart said, good luck studying all that stuff that few Americans even know, the revolution begins in 2012

Nobody wants to take a strong stance either way on the environment, because if you go way pro-environment you lose critical corporate $$$ for your campaign, but if you go pro-business you alienate the young vote.  

funnnneeeeyyyyy!!

And now there are four.  Be afraid, be very afraid.

I don't care who will rule some foreign country, in a same way I would like that foreign country to mind their own business within their borders.
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Of course, that's idealistic and unreal, but that's how it should be, more or less. We all know the impact of U.S. on the rest of the world, for good or for bad - that just shows how the situation is distorted - and far from ideal.

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Hoppin' the pond eh? Well good luck, the naturalization process is a bitch and a half.

I have a friend from India who has lived with his parents here since he was 6 (14 years ago) but they still haven't been able to get in. If you don't know a guy who knows a guy then you stay enqueued whilst others are grandfathered in. No wonder the illegal immigrant problem is so horrible, the process is not a process because it does not complete in a finite amount of time! Grr
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I am applying for a K-1, or fiancé visa, since I can't wait to marry another certain forum member whom you may have come across... They usually take about 6 months (may be more, may be less), and then of course there is a lot of fun to be had with the whole Adjustment of Status process. All I have to say is, I wish your authorities were so honest as to say that US citizens are not allowed to marry foreigners. The whole process involves serious invasions of a person's privacy, even when one has NOTHING to hide as in my case, and is clearly not engaging in a Green Card scam (no Western Europeans are, especially people like me who have property and a job in their home countries).

That said, unfortunately for us, we can't afford not to care about who is elected president of the US. The Italian territory is FULL of US military bases and such, since we are part of the NATO - not to mention that nowadays the world has become way too small for every country not to be in some measure influenced by what happens somewhere else.