Comments by AsherNC

When I think online privacy, I don't care much when companies use my search info rather anonymously to try to sell me products. However, I don't like having my privacy violated when those companies keep my info saved, ready to provide it to third parties against my own interests, including employers but specifically the government itself. Thus I cannot vote in your poll.

Don't forget about Brazil. It's now the world's 6th largest economy, after the USA, China, Japan, Germany, and France.

I'm sure Vietnam would rather smell the fart of Uncle Sam than the fart of Chairman Mao. Or, put it another way, Vietnam would rather eat Uncle Sam's shit than Chairman Mao's.

I'd bet you $10,000 that Obama wins.

Nope, just about every state puts down its blacks. Think about your Yankee Ghettos. Great warm welcome the Yankees gave them upon their migration to Chicago, NYC, etc. Many public schools are essentially segregated in the North. Anyhow, some Southern states aren't so bad, getting better, but some (Alabama does deserve mention too) are so blatantly racist and backward that some reconstruction would do them good.

A few states would certainly benefit, such as Ol' Miss and SC. I'm a proud Southerner, but those places still put down their blacks too hard.

The heart of the economy of the U.S. auto industry spans Ontario and Michigan, just like the U.S. economy is deeply connected with Canada, as it should be. (I'd rather the economies of Canada and the U.S. completely so we can combine our strengths against China.) Even if the car was finally assembled in Canada, its parts were very likely manufactured in the U.S.A.

Martin Van Buren's first language was Dutch. Dirty Dutchman...I don't believe he's eligible to be president. ;-)

Solution: American business hires new (high school, community college, whatever) grads and trains them. Then American business can stop bitching too.

You miss the point. American business hates training people, so America has no trained people. American business likes to bitch about the very problem they created!

My negative feelings stem entirely from the fact that my ancestors were tortured and murdered in the Holocaust. The history of the Holocaust and similar anti-Jew and anti-minority pogroms and other evils must be remembered for what they largely were - one religion targeting another. I have problems with every religion, but it just so happens that the Christian organization and its Jew-hating traditions (stemming from Roman state religion times, not its origins in Jesus) was one of the leading causes of the Holocaust. I know the financial aspect you mention didn't help, but it's minor compared to the shear vitriolic hatred and violence that organized Christianity has espoused against Jewish people through most of the history of Xianity. To say that Hitler was an atheist is to deny this link because of your own biases and to refute the fact that Hitler's Christianity can be historically proven at least by a preponderance of the evidence (though perhaps not by clear and convincing evidence). This link must be remembered not in order to make Christians feel bad but in order that history does not repeat itself again. I hope you understand.

"Privately" - something tells me you have absolutely no evidence to back up this wild claim. Let's face it - just like Constantine, when he was establishing Christianity as the state religion of the Roman Empire, decided to blame the Jews for Jesus's death at the Council if Nicaea, when it was obviously the Romans who killed him, so you decide that no Hitler couldn't have been Christian! My goodness no! Now when you brainwashed people are presented with the historical facts that Hitler was a staunch monotheist and almost certain Christian, you try to be apologetic and say he wasn't one of you. Well I'm sorry, but he was. Just as Stalin was raised to be a Christian priest and believed in God his whole life (I've read his words in the original Russian)!

Hitler was raised Catholic. For the rest of his life, he remained nominally Catholic but believed in the divinity of Jesus and of course in sein Gott in Himmel. Specifically he subscribed to the "aryan Jesus" theory that said Jesus was an aryan and that the Jews killed him. In fact, the entire Jew-hatred he espoused was a 1600-year long European Christian tradition based on that kind of lie that the Jews killed Jesus. (FYI, it was the people in power - i.e. the Romans.) The main thing Hitler didn't like about Catholicism was its heirarchy, and considering the status he desired, big surprise there. I agree that there is historical controversy (as there is with just about any event or person this important in world history), but I think his words and his actions considered as a whole are totally consistent with a non-sectarian Christian, and totally inconsistent with a total lack of religion. Anyway, read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler's_religious_views

And yes, of course Democrats are less Christian by percentage. Even the Muslims, who are the most conservative religion of all, have been forced into the Democratic camp by rampant Muslim-hatred on the part of many Republicans. My father, an atheist, was so disgusted by the religious fundamentalism in that party that he left as soon as G.W.Bush was crowned president by the Supreme Court in 2000.

I don't want to get into another debate, since my internet here sucks, but you should read up on Thomas Jefferson's and Thomas Paine's religious views.

Considering that Hitler was an avid-bible reader and a devout Christian, I think he'd have felt much more at home in the Republican Party. (Read Mein Kampf or his speeches if you want to see his religious views.)

Let me finish the sentence. A vote for Grinchrich is a vote for Obama.

Thank you, pumpkin daddy.

msmumr: I suggest you do some research about Lenin's and Stalin's opinions about intellectuals.

agree with me re: Huntsman that is.

Yeh, that's about right. I'm glad you agree with me!

I hope you recognize that John Huntsman is a real statesman who'd do some real good. A successful governor, he could not say no to serving his country as Ambassador to China, despite Obama doing it precisely to dupe the Republican electorate. So why doesn't Iowa like Huntsman? Why does Iowa choose a bunch of nuts over Huntsman? I know the answer, but it's not worth saying.

Fully agree. Thank you!