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Thraxle wrote
at 11:18 AM, Wednesday March 4, 2009 EST
...and there is no sign that Mr. Obama is any different from the past democrats that sat in the oval office. The only exception is that he has 100% compliance within his party and a majority in congress that will pass anything Mr. Obama supports.
How hypocritical is it that Mr. Obama continues to remind the general public of the deficit he inherited, but then spends so recklessly that the possibility of having a balanced budget anytime within his term is utterly impossible. How hypocritical is it that the libs called the recent spending bill that was passed a "stimulus package". How does $20 billion dollars towards food stamps stimulate the economy? What jobs will be created by increasing food stamp allowances? This is only one example of many within that spending bill, but I'll try to avoid making this post unneccisarily long. One of you left wingers need to help me understand what our President is attempting to do. The view from the cheap seats here in right field makes the picture look exactly like I thought it would look before the election took place; the liberal democrats want a socialist republic in place of our cherished capitalistic society. Let's continue to drain the rich to pay for the poor. Let's continue to increase taxes on large corporations that have been laying off employees at an enormous pace. Let's increase benefits to the unemployed instead of finding ways to provide jobs for them. I'm ranting a bit, but one thing is clear. Barack Obama scares the living shit out of me. JP, UGB, anybody, please help me feel better about the job he's doing. And someone explain to me how the fuck he has a 67% approval rating. They must have done the polling at a foreclosure seminar or a foodbank. |
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dasfury wrote
at 10:33 AM, Thursday October 18, 2012 EDT Romneycare ftw?
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greekboi wrote
at 11:13 AM, Thursday October 18, 2012 EDT Man, at least the people who support Romney know he's fucked up but think it's time for a change/at least he's better than Obama.
Obama supporters literally think that he is perfect, and has never done any wrong. Not that his actions throughout his term have been the EXACT opposite of the platform he ran on. He also doesn't lie or skew facts during debates, only Romney does. Oh and Romney is the devil. Man, how were the Democrats able to find the perfect candidate, when every single candidate the Republicans put forward is the second coming of Lucifer? Oh, that's right, my demographic doesn't read the newspaper or follow our country's actions, they simply like Obama because it is the 'hip' thing to do! And when they need to dig up 'facts' to support their claim, they use liberal propaganda sites akin to Fox News. |
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greekboi wrote
at 11:24 AM, Thursday October 18, 2012 EDT I should add that I'm leaning slightly towards Obama though.
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Cal Ripken wrote
at 11:48 AM, Thursday October 18, 2012 EDT I have plenty of problems with Obama and other Democrats...
I think a lot of major Obama supporters are more informed than you give them credit- though certainly there's plenty of blind support too. The blind allegiance is probably heightened by the shitshow that is the GOP. You could take all the reasonable debates on economics and then look at what the GOP do to appease their socially-backwards fundie base and you're going to turn a lot of moderates into hard-lined Obama backers |
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Thraxle wrote
at 12:07 PM, Thursday October 18, 2012 EDT In other news, Romney has grabbed a 6 point lead amongst "likely voters".
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TheBetterYodel wrote
at 12:55 PM, Thursday October 18, 2012 EDT Blind allegiance? Lets talk about who votes for who now.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/158048/romney-obama-among-likely-voters.aspx Obama gets the minority vote at 86% both years. Nothing has improved for minorities, Biden was the co-author for the law that made crack cocaine worse than powder which had a disproportionate affect on minorities, and lets not forget that the Democratic party shares it's roots with the KKK. Also here: http://www.gallup.com/poll/158018/americans-views-obama-polarized-election-nears.aspx You can see that for the past 30 years the line has been drawn in the sand and the two parties have become increasingly polarized. Claiming that it's ALL the republicans fault is just absolute hogwash. Mitt Romney has proven that he can reach across the isle and get things done. Obama has a proven record of NOT doing that. If you want to fix the country and you really aren't towing a party line then you have to look at the facts as they are and really question why you would vote for a man who has shown absolutely no desire to fix the problems but only focuses on destroying our liberties. To quantify my take. I'm a libertarian. I've never voted for a main party ever in a presidential election. The RR ticket talks about states rights and the OB ticket talks about more government. I will obviously go with the constitutionally sound ones. |
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Cal Ripken wrote
at 1:09 PM, Thursday October 18, 2012 EDT "Obama has a proven record of NOT doing that. "
Congressional Republicans have openly said over and over that they refuse to work on anything with the other side. Blame the moronic tea party movement on making the GOP scared to do anything that involves Democrats. Want to go ahead and name me some of those liberties Obama has taken away from you? |
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Cal Ripken wrote
at 1:13 PM, Thursday October 18, 2012 EDT " and lets not forget that the Democratic party shares it's roots with the KKK."
Forgot to mention how stupid a comment this was. Please note. |
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Thraxle wrote
at 1:24 PM, Thursday October 18, 2012 EDT Yeah, I had to look this one up:
"The first Klan was founded in 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee, by six veterans of the Confederate Army. The name is probably from the Greek word kuklos (κύκλος) which means circle, suggesting a circle or band of brothers. Although there was no organizational structure above the local level, similar groups arose across the South adopted the same name and methods.[17] Klan groups spread throughout the South as an insurgent movement during the Reconstruction era in the United States. As a secret vigilante group, the Klan targeted freedmen and their allies; it sought to restore white supremacy by threats and violence, including murder, against black and white Republicans. In 1870 and 1871, the federal government passed the Force Acts, which were used to prosecute Klan crimes. Prosecution of Klan crimes and enforcement of the Force Acts suppressed Klan activity. In 1874 and later, however, newly organized and openly active paramilitary organizations, such as the White League and the Red Shirts, started a fresh round of violence aimed at suppressing blacks' voting and running Republicans out of office. These contributed to segregationist white Democrats regaining political power in all the Southern states by 1877." Didn't know any of that. |
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Cal Ripken wrote
at 1:30 PM, Thursday October 18, 2012 EDT I wasn't saying there weren't foundational roots of the KKK in the Democratic party, it's just that thinking that in any way pertains to minority support of the party is idiotic.
I mean, anyone with a high school education should know about the ideological shift in the political parties, right? Southern racist good ol boys at that time were Democrats. Then Dixiecrats. Now, well, I think we're all well aware of who they vote for. |