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88 wrote:I don't really think there is much to worry about, either way. The entire world economy/house of cards is very likely to take a shit in 2013 or 2014. The next president and his party are going to go on the ash heap for all eternity. Whoever wins this election likely signs his own party's death warrant. No one has the balls to do what is required to rectify the situation (i.e., tell the people that they have been fucked by their own representatives and sold a set of big lies for years, and now that the bills have come due and cannot be paid, things must be changed in a drastic and not-too-pleasant way). So the party in power in 2013 will kick the can down the road as in the past until it flies off the cliff, and the entire world economy goes plop, like the giant debt-filled turd it is right now. Hopefully the collapse does not bring massive war. But that has been the solution to these types of crises throughout recorded history. In many ways, I hope your Socialist/Progressive morons are at the helm when this country hits the iceberg. They have created this mess, through their unfunded lies, corruption and bald-faced ponzi schemes. They should be on deck when the ship goes under.

88 wrote:There is a huge push toward "green" energy and the hope that some sort of technological breakthrough might occur to salvage us from the precipice we are rapidly approaching. I hope such a breakthrough will occur.

mvscal wrote: As I have said many times before, I am not a racist. I'm a cultural bigot.

Poll: Republicans claiming Obama is a Muslim doubled since 2008

By David Edwards
Thursday, July 26, 2012 14:19 EDT

Conservative Republicans who believe President Barack Obama is a Muslim have more than doubled since 2008, according to a survey on religion and politics released on Thursday.

The Pew Research Center found that 34 percent of conservative Republicans now believe Obama, who is a Christian, is actually a Muslim, compared with the 16 percent that believed that in 2008. When moderate and liberal Republicans are included, the number who believed that the president a Muslim still nearly doubled from 16 percent in 2008 to 30 percent in 2012.

Among all voters, only 49 percent were able to correctly identify that the president is a Christian.

Sixty-five percent of those who incorrectly believed Obama is a Muslim were not comfortable with his religion. However, voters who knew that he is a Christian said they were comfortable with his religion by a margin of 82 percent to 12 percent.

At the same time, the number of voters who could correctly identify that presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is a Mormon had increased from 48 percent in November of 2011 to 60 percent in July of this year.

Seventy-five percent of Republicans who knew that Romney is a Mormon were comfortable with his religion, although only 50 percent of all voters believed Mormons are Christians. Sixty-seven percent of atheists identified Mormons as Christians, while only 33 percent of black Protestants and 43 percent of white evangelicals agreed with that assertion.