Here it is plain and simple, to my knowledge the US is the only nation that allows almosts alls its citizens to carry a fire arm if they want to. This means that the peolpe do control the gov't and the gov't has to answer to them. In most of these other nations the gov't can do what it wants and scwer the people. Also america is providing the most advances in technology that actully helps an entire nation. If China is truely so smart that they can not down are satillites and missles then why the hell don;t they do to twian like they do to tibet. Amerca in one way or another will remain a superpower.

Yes, but you forget that Americans are really a Nationalty. We're kinda like a melting pot. A bunch of races thrown together. Also many countries were snuffed out and/or recreated during the time of the WW's. Plus America isn't nearly as old as Europian countries.

China is getting more advanced than you seem to relize.
"Number of Cars in China Reaches 22 Million" -http://www.impactlab.com/2007/02/16/number-of-cars-in-china-reaches-22-million/
China has 1.26583 billion people, thats almost 1 vehicle for every 60 people. While this may not seem like much China has a thriving train system so people who live in big cities (most of China) do not need to worry about buying a car.

Yeah, I guess I agree with GeneralEltrius but honestly, the 2 party system is crap. Listen to George Washington and just have everyone different.

Once China will loose Tibet (IT WILL LOOSE TIBET) it'll collapse in on itself like a newtron star because its way to impoverished and dependant on imports to actually become "the greatest nation". We have 13 times higher GDP than China and that country isin't even number two in terms of that statistic. Japan has 4 times larger GDP then China!

I'm still coming to terms about the small decline in the Roman Empire - which is doing just fine dammit!

There is a place like this...it's called Hollywood.

Thats how dad did, thats how America does it, and it seems to work pretty good so far.

You may have met the wrong ones.  



Hillary is not middle class! She's a rich jerk. What you could call a manlady. If she wins, America will be speeding down the road to ruin. Just my opinion.

Etrius

Ok whoever has a problem with rich people is just jealous of their success. Face it, everyone has always wanted a waverunner...

I could not agree with your statements about guns more. Guns are good for protection but they are completely useless and even dangerous without proper training.

If you ask me political parties should be outlawed in the U.S. look at how much trouble the Democrats and Republicans have caused. Political parties lead to groupthink and stagnation. Anyone should run for office and all campaigns should be grassroots and not be funded by corporations and "special interest groups" who want a puppet in the White house. This is why I hate this election Obama, Clinton, and McCain are all the same. They should really call this election " Who gives a Shit 2008"

i don't think U.S is going to be going away as a superpower anytime soon, and i don't think china wants it either. Well...not directly or intentionally. It is true that they are the world's factory, other than that, they want to tend to themselves. It is also true that they like to have as much money as the U.S, but then.they don't want to be as noisy and stick their noses in other country's internal matter. That might be the only good thing about chin, if it does become a super power, it won't care whether places in middle east has human rights or no human rights. Even if it suddenly changes to have a 100 percent perfect human rights record, it just won't care about whether other country does anything bad or good to its citizens.

for everyone and anyone in the west who thinks 9/11 is a sad event, etc, etc. I do know many people from the mid east and the near east, even some in asians who thinks that the U.S deserves what it got that day. Why, well all the military conflicts it got itself involved in the interest of serving American interests, the number of lives lost far exceeds the number of deaths on 9/11. But then..that is the consequence of being a superpower when it likes to leverage its influence to tell other people what to do even to the point of being told to screw off in no uncertain terms. I think the more interesting thing about 9/11 is not whether America deserved it, but rather what it has done to the pride of Americans. After all, before that, it thinks of itself as invinsible, because of its military and economic might. I guess after 9/11, how such a mighty super status has fallen.

And those who really think that the might of the american military can really be use against other less advanced militaries if push comes to shelve. Well the truth of the matter is, if it does not serve american interests, military or no military, the U.S won't use it. Also, the world hates the U.S as it is, so the poltiical consequences will not be pretty for the U.S. Besides, isn't Iraq and Afaghan enough a drain on its military as it is. Does it need another war. It keeps on whining about north korea and its nukes, but seriously, i don't think it wants to commit military force to topple the government. It is simply too expensive and it won't do its public images any good. we can all forget about iran and how the U.S is going to save the iranians, because it will be like another iraq if ever invades. The Iranians don't like the U.S period. And it will be ugly if it ever invades. So it has to do it through other means like the UN, but lets not forget, U.S is not the only UN voting power, there are Russia and China. And talking about Russia, it is such a contradiction, it became a great nations again without such a thing call democracy.