1. McCain becomes US president.
2. McCain dies, heart attack/stroke/sudden illness.
3. Vice president Palin fills McCain's role as president.
4. Foreign powers act on their sentiments, declare war on US OR US preemptively declares war on them.
   a. Multiple war-fronts.
   b. Economy hardly supports war effort.
   c. Draft put into effect.
   d. Weak leadership hurts war time effectiveness.

O.K. guys, talk to you about it until 8 weeks from now, and I'd be happy to be wrong about everything.

this will never happen

You're right, >>2. Looks like the economy will collapse before McCain dies.

1. McCain becomes US president.
2. US maintains it's position as sole global superpower for the next five hundred years, funding dictators and terrorists that are friendly to US interests in the region and abusing it's military to enforce the use of it's currency and murder sovereign entities that object.

How many of America's great presidents would be considered 'qualified' to be president today? Lincoln? Palin is not that bad. There's a fun thing called "Mutually Assured Destruction" that has prevented wars between anyone with nukes for the past 60-some years.

Economy-wise, are you stating that Obama would be better for the country economically? He has plans to increase foreign aid and increase taxes on the rich. You know, those awful people who went to college and made smart decisions and use their money to start businesses and invest?

>>5
Smart decisions like founding mega-conglomerate banks and insurers and buying mortgage securities that no one knew the value of, then panicking when the market notices and running to the Treasury to bail them out with money we don't have, because they're obviously 'too big to fail'?

Anyway, taxation is honest. I'd rather be taxed then watch the dollar become worthless because, lacking other sources of revenue, McCain/Palin will keep on printing money to fund their overseas adventures.

If there were a real financial conservative with a fighting chance in this election, they'd have my vote instead of Obama, but there is not. Such is the curse of the two-party system.

yeah everyone should vote for Bob Bar problem solved

>>7
Nope sorry, the official candidate of /politics/ is Koichi Toyama.

>>5

>and increase taxes on the rich. You know, those awful people who went to college and made smart decisions and use their money to start businesses and invest?

IN CHINA.

Seriously, what have the rich done for us lately? Tax them.

>made selfish decisions

fixed.

Terrorist attack before election, Bush cancels election and declares martial law. He declares war on Iran and Pakistan and Venezuela, draft is enabled...eventual civil war because Bush declares himself President For Life and destroys the country.

If Obama is elected and he pulls out of Iraq like he says he will, then we may have a chance of catching Bin-Laden
If bush manages to catch Bin-Laden before the elcetion however then it most likely will go to McCain.

>>12
Bin Laden is dead.

>>13
THANK YOU.
No one seems to understand this.

>>12

Obama wont end the war immediately. He will most likely pull out of Iraq gradually over a few years, taking what resources he can from the area, but leaving all of the currently planned military bases intact.

Bin Laden is living in Saudi Arabia with the rest of the royal family.

1. McCain wins.
2. ???
3. Belgian forces march on Washington.

Seriously, I don't know. It will probably be more like:

1. Obama wins
2. US forces pulled from Iraq to stem the budget hemmorage
3. China and Russia take their places as the new world superpowers. These two duke it out in a series of pointless shadow wars.
4. Russia and China bankrupt themselves
5. The lifecycle of the superpower repeats itself

1 Entire global economy plunges into a massive recession
2 Big mean countries invade little ones to exploit those countries' resources
3 World War
4 ????
5 PROFIT to the people who caused this bullshit crisis in the first place

1. History repeats itself
2. Lather, rinse, repeat