Scare Tactics

I think that poster who talked about three terms was a non American. At least I hope they weren't. I'll call it for you now if you want. Obama's going to win. I didn't vote for him. Boo freakin' hoo. Now I'll get back to my normal life.

Hyperbole seems to be endemic to American politics for the last few years. To hear some Rep and Dem supporters, if the "wrong" candidate gets elected America will become a dictatorship, the Illuminati will take over the world, everyone will be unemployed, everyone will become a slave, nuclear war will break out and the Antichrist will rise! It's just another election, you have them every four years. Politicians, even US Presidents, are nothing like as powerful as they'd like you to believe. There's a limit to the damage even a totally crooked or incompetent President could do (and I don't think that's a description of either candidate anyway). Whoever the next US Prez is, the sun will still rise every day, so there's no point getting stressed.

It's too bad you didn't realize that the third one was a joke. Why don't liberals have a sense of humor? The one about the riots though, was that people would riot if Romney got elected. The source? Democrats who claimed they would riot if Romney got elected so you can blame your own party for that one. http://www.examiner.com/article/obama-supporters-spend-election-day-continuing-calls-for-riots-and-assassination http://now.msn.com/obama-supporters-tweeting-threats-to-riot-if-romney-elected http://nation.foxnews.com/barack-obama/2012/10/15/obama-supporters-threaten-riot-if-romney-wins I agree though, the scare tactics are ridiculous. I'm sick of hearing about women will lose their rights if Romney is elected. You know, because women have a right to make people buy them birth control. I work in Camden, NJ and kids were telling me they hate Romney because their parents said he wants to take all their stuff. I asked "What stuff" and they said he would take their phones and food stamps. My personal favorite though, were the morons on the left claiming that Romney would ban tampons if he were elected. It was actually a fake article, put out by a site similar to The Onion, and yet the morons at left wing blogs spread it all over the internet thinking it was true. http://newsbusters.org/blogs/randy-hall/2012/10/11/humorless-liberals-fall-satire-claims-romney-would-ban-tampons

hello irisheyes, emotions are high are they not? and I think even after today, we're in for some rough times with the 'loosing side' keeping it up. It's true, people often aren't informed and tempers do flare. Fear is used by both sides. I pray that America heals. I hope that we can somehow get our acts together and do what needs to be done to save us from financial collapse. I don't believe in all my life, I've seen such high emotion in an election.