Originally Posted by DevilsSon

Was just reading through this thread and needed to say that it's pathetic that the American Democrats call themselves "liberals". They're certainly no liberals, and Adam Smith is probably turning in his grave at the thought of that.

As for the elections, an era of conservatives is approaching and the US will be part of it, no doubt. John McCain will win, just like David Cameron will win in the UK, just like Merkel will again in in Germany (and form a coalition with the Liberals), just like Sarkozy has already won in France, and just like Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, and most of Eastern Europe. Not to mention that even the Sweden and Denamrk are taking a more market-oriented government approach.

Left-wing politics have led to the lowest growth-rates in a century. It's time for a balls-to-the wall laissez-faire era. As Nobel-Prize Winner Milton Friedman put it: "Let the government manage the Sahara Desert and in 2 years there will be no sand". That's what I think about left-wing politics, and Obama's oratory talents don't change anything in that. Lots of big words, very little substance. The usual.