Well...?
Sunday, September 4, 2011
I'm not supporting Obama's reelection because I think he's a great Democrat. He isn't. Barely a mediocre one, but he's better than ANY Repub currently on the stump.
Sometimes, heck most of the time, our choices in life suck.
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More "lesser of two evils" malarkey.
Obama isn't any kind of Democrat.
A Democrat who governs as a Republican
With Obama, we're getting Republican policies sold to us as if they're what we wanted. Just because the Republican Party's base is too stupid to know they should be thrilled to have Obama in the White House doesn't mean the Democratic Party's base is.
Back during the campaign in 2008, Democratic voters refused to press Obama when he said this:
"I don't want to present myself as some sort of singular figure. I think part of what is different is the times. I do think that, for example, the 1980 election was different. I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not. He put us on a fundamentally different path because the country was ready for it. They felt like with all the excesses of the 60s and the 70s and government had grown and grown but there wasn't much sense of accountabi lity in terms of how it was operating. I think he tapped into what people were already feeling. Which is we want clarity, we want optimism, we want a return to that sense of dynamism and entreprene urship that had been missing."
He admires and wants to emulate Reagan.
What Obama's supporters like you are doing is really insidious. At a time when we could be, should be, using this primary season to get a real progressiv
Any Republican president doing what Obama's done would get excoriated by you, but because he's got a 'D' after his name, you go along. You keep Obama's numbers up and then you try to play the fear-card ("The Republican
You've either lost your mind or you're a political operative whose living depends on perpetrati
About Barack Obama
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