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Obviously, it is no surprise that Asians were able to see through the absolute crap that was the Republican narrative and the shameful candidate that Romney was. Romney stinks. Ryan stinks. The GOP stinks. Asians can see this and value character, education, integrity...which is what President Obama strives for.
Obviously, it is no surprise that Asians were able to see through the absolute crap that was the Republican narrative and the shameful candidate that Romney was. Romney stinks. Ryan stinks. The GOP stinks. Asians can see this and value character, education, integrity...which is what President Obama strives for.
The Economist is not a center right publication. Maybe by UK standards but not American.
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Originally Posted by mclarlm
Republicans do not have a monopoly on hard work, any more than Democrats have a monopoly on compassion for the less fortunate. The very idea is despicable. Most Americans are not on the extremes.
I was a moderate Republican, the party left me long ago. My father is more conservative and lost interest in 2008. My news comes from The Economist, a center-right newspaper, and various places on the Internet. His news comes from Fox News and Asian newspapers.
My hopes for a moderate were dashed the moment Romney hewed right during the primaries. He followed the party line that compromise is weakness.
The level of intellectual dishonesty is insulting. Says he's serious about the deficit, but won't consider new revenue. He'll cut costs, but some costs, namely the military, are sacrosanct. In fact, let's increase the budget for arms beyond what the military needs to accomplish its mission. Or better yet, let's expand the mission to include more wars.
Then the pitch was cut rates, broaden the base, and eliminate deductions. But no details on what those deductions will be. Or what the internal revenue projections are. The math will work out, trust us. It's complicated, there's no time to explain. Then DON'T explain. Give me the raw data, I'll figure it out myself. Show me the 1000 page report, I'll read it ALL and determine if it's reasonable.
Because of the language barrier, my father has some immunity from rhetoric and appeals to emotion. He can understand the words, but loses the subtext. Soaring rhetoric is rendered flat, like the words to an unfamiliar song. Watching news to him is a multi-step affair: listen, translate, check against known facts. This slower process demands time to think, determine unknowns, and research. Fox news stopped being of any use at all, they weren't just taking events out of context or presenting only one slice of data. My dad commented, "The Democrats are spinning, the Republicans are LYING." Lies repeated again and again, unchallenged. Presented almost as opinion, as though facts don't matter.
My father voted against Clinton twice, but greatly admired his DNC speech. Clinton spoke to us as though we had enough brains to understand the numbers and consequences of policy.
As a Californian, my vote wasn't too important to the Presidential race. But I gave money to the Obama and Warren campaigns. I'm happy to see them both win. Not a win of one person or one party over another. It was a win of reason over deception.
*Not speaking for other Asian-Americans. Just my personal thoughts.
Also Indian Americans go democratic as well. They are included in the Whole "Asian American" Demographic. I work with a ton of them. The ones that could actually vote were going for Obama. And NJ well...yeah, lets just say they aren't gonna go for the Republican party as it stands right now.
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