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here is a little info about your candidate. Why would your back such a fiend?Obama has always served his corporate masters. He opposed Rep. John Murtha’s call for immediate withdrawal from Iraq and supported continued funding for the war. He voted in July 2005 to reauthorize the Patriot Act. He did not support an amendment that was part of a bankruptcy bill that would have capped credit card interest rates at 30 percent. He opposed a bill that would have reformed the notorious Mining Law of 1872, which allows mineral companies to rape federal land for profit. He did not back the single-payer health care bill HR 676, sponsored by Kucinich and John Conyers. He advocates the death penalty and nuclear power (after the nuke industry gave him ½ a million). He backed the class-action “reform” bill—the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA)—that was part of a large lobbying effort by financial firms, which make up Obama’s second-biggest single bloc of donors. CAFA would effectively shut down state courts as a venue to hear most class-action lawsuits. Workers, under CAFA, would no longer have redress in many of the courts where these cases have a chance of defying powerful corporations. CAFA moves these cases into corporate-friendly federal courts.Obama’s support for the bailout, however, is his most egregious betrayal. He had a brief, shining moment to prove he could lead, to capitalize on a popular revolt that cut across the political spectrum. He never attempted to address or mobilize the aspirations and passions of the vast majority of Americans. He was as craven, servile and cowardly as the party he represents. He returned to the campaign trail after Friday’s vote as a slick and polished sales representative for our corporate state, telling us to calm down and accept the inevitable. He also caved-in on the ridiculous off-shore drilling bullshit, has no real time table to get out of Iraq and Afganistan, campaigned for Joe Lieberman, voted for immunity for the telecoms for spying on us, supports INCREASING the size of the military, says no to gay marriage, and WON’T IMPEACH SOME OF THE MOST DISCUSTING CONSTITUTION SHREDDING/MURDERER/WAR CRIMINALS OF ALL TIME.

Because I believe in him and pride myself on being relatively calm and objective.

If you were President, what is the first thing you will do for your land ? and the first thing you will do for music ?Chris from South of France

Middle class tax breaks and banning Britney Spears.

Sorry for my English, but i'm an your italian fan since by the beautiful "Shout".Did you know that the pyramid eye symbol in your TOP video "Sowing The Seeds Of Love" is the same of the framasonic lodge of "Illuminati di Baviera"(search also : Skull and Bones//YALE Univ.,Bohemian Grove,etc) that REALLY wants to rule the word N O W with the satanic "NEW WORLD ORDER"(Federal Reserve,Concil of Foreign Relations,Bildeberg Group,etc)? You (and all the famous singers in the world) could give your BIG BIG BIG contribute if you could to HARD denounce in your songs,this EXOPOLITIC GLOBAL CONSPIRATION ... Before it's TOO LATE (2012) and we all loose our FONDAMENTAL FREEDOM ...

OK then.

I did, it also looks cool :) I am doing everything in my power to make sure we don't continue down the same destructive path we've been on.

What do you think about California legalizing gay marriage? What do you think about Proposition 8?

I see no logical reason to oppose gay marriage, only pseudo religious ones which make no sense. If two men or two women want to enter into a legal, emotional and binding commitment then they should be offered the freedom to do so, anything else is pure discrimination. Consequently I'm against proposition 8. We are not a theocracy we're a democracy.

Do you really think Obama has the experience to be our president? 

I'll give a slightly obscure answer but I think you'll get the point. The least politically experienced of the founding fathers was George Washington. One of the least experienced presidents was Abraham Lincoln (the same amount as Barack Obama), the most experienced - James Buchanan.

Did you ever feel as strongly about politics when you lived in England? Do you think the American government is better than here in England? 

I’ve always felt quite strongly about politics although I think that’s certainly grown more since I’ve become a parent. As far as one being better than the other - that depends on who’s in government. I think BILL Clinton was far better than Thatcher and I think Blair makes George Bush look like an imbecile.

What does it mean to you to be a U.S. citizen now? 

I don't feel a lot of difference as I've been a resident for nearly 20 years, but it does make me more involved in politics now that I have a voice (vote).

I just bought a DVD from the History Channel called "The Presidents of the United States". It goes through all presidents up to George W Bush's first term. I bought it because of all the political talk here, so thank-you. 

That's what I'm taking about!!

Do you think the NHS would work in the U.S.?

I can't see any logical reason why not. It works in every other industrialized nation.

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