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Our political system simply no longer works for normal, average, principled Americans.
Of course, it was never meant to. It was designed by and for slave-owning Virginia squires, bewigged New England lawyers and New York merchant bankers with silver buckles on their shoes.
You might be getting to heart of my critique. Precisely at a time when we should be "smelling the coffee" and helping each other, the GOP has gone on rampage about how feeding the out of work is socialism and out of control spending. Crass opportunism and bottomfeeding from the folks who launched two wars paid for with two tax cuts. They seem to be fundamentally mean-spirited and dishonest about really important things, if it will get them back in power.
Feeding the needy by trickle down government does not work.when is enough enough
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You are very perceptive. The GOP knows that is going to take a super majority of white voters to win the election. Instead of trying to attract more hispanic, gay, black, and poor voters they have gone after the fringe groups. They have focused on Obama and painted him as "not one of us", with pure racist overtones. You are right about the past Republican parties. This is not your daddies Republican party.
Underneath all the politics and slogans and dogma, that's exactly what it comes down to, is the GOP has been re-branded as "the Party of Whites" ("although we'll still let a few of you other folks in... as long as you remember who's in charge")!
Obama claims you can trust him to do what he says he will do and he has the record to prove it
Transparancy: Think passing ObamaCare at midnight on Christmas Eve. Think Benghazi and Fast and Furious.
There are more ex-lobbyists working for the Obama administration than in the Bush administration.
He said he would cut the deficit in half. We all know how that turned out.
He said he would create 5 million green energy jobs. How many went bankrupt now. I lost count.
He said he would be the most fiscally conservative president since Eisenhower.
Ahh here is my favorite....He said his presidency would usher in a new era of civility and the end of ethnic divisiveness.
Many many more...
Obama's trust record has gotten so bad that one of America's foremost economists and political analysts, Thomas Sowell refers to Obama as "America's Deceiver in Chief."
What has been really upsetting to me this election cycle has been the overt insults from the white right toward everyone else. The dependent classes, the takers vs. the makers, the 47%, government aparach etc. I don't recall Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, George W. Bush or Reagan or Bush I being so divisive, and showing such transparent contempt for large swaths of the population. Despite what I thought of his flawed foreign and economic policies, I never felt that W was racist or sexist. He seemed to like most people.
This election cycle, it is as if there are supposedly the good Americans and the bad Americans. I recall Sarah Palin playing this game in 2008, and I did not like it then. I am a hardworking, rural, white, christian, straight guy, but I really don't see myself as more American than a gay, Vietnamese, urban woman. I just don't care for this view of America, but judging by the Romney vs. Obama voters, it is as if the Repubs are very, very white, and the Dems are everyone else. I am having hard time seeing how the GOP has embraced a John Birch Society type platform in 2012.
Where did this new narrative come from, and whose idea was it? I cannot see it being a smart or very civil strategy over the long term.
The GOP took a hard right about the time Obama took the oath of office. Take what you will from that.
I love his latest BS about "hearing that Jeep is moving jobs to China" that even Chrysler is pissed about. The fact is Chrysler is ADDING 1,500 new jobs to their plant in Ohio.
I love his latest BS about "hearing that Jeep is moving jobs to China" that even Chrysler is pissed about. The fact is Chrysler is ADDING 1,500 new jobs to their plant in Ohio.
I'm guessing it's normal for politicians to be out of touch or removed from everyday people's lives.
President Obama probably doesn't even know how much a gallon of diesel fuel costs right now, but willard has probably never heard of the stuff, that's how out of touch the man really is.
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