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Government can't do anything right. (Except the military, because it's political suicide to bash a government institution like the military.
Obama has too many czars.
Obama is planning to take away their guns.
Obama is a Muslim.
Obama is a socialist. (Nevermind that only 0.29% of business in America is actually nationalized.)
Cash for Clunkers was a failure. (Tell that to the auto manufactures and media industry that depends on auto advertising.)
The stimulus is a bust. (Nevermind that only about 10% of the stimulus money has been spent.)
Obama reads from a TelePrompter.
Obama says "um" too much when he's not reading from said TelePrompter, therefore he must be a liar.
Obama is a liar. Who cares what a bi-partisan site like Fact Check.org says, Obama is a liar.
Obama wasn't born here.
Obama wants to censor Right Wing media.
Obama wants to destroy our missle defense systems.
ACORN ACORN ACORN
Obama is going to indoctrine our children with his radical ideology. Won't someone think of the children?
You forgot to include "he is a terrorist with ties to all of the other terrorist (whether they be alive or dead). He is not a citizen and he will not keep us safe even though he has kept us safe at his point (9/18), one week longer into his first term than Bush did.
My opinion, please feel free to disagree, is that politics have become more and more polarized over the past 15 years, with a greater number of elected officials espousing more extreme/less centrist views. Although, I've only been a voting adult since HW Bush, so I'm certain there are folks out there with longer political memories than mine. I agree that the cable news shows (and trying to fill the 24-hour news cycle) do not seem to be encouraging civilized debate.
I don't disagree. And, the more I see the right moving farther to the right, the more I want to fight for the left's causes. If everyone feels that way, we'll just keep getting farther apart. Does that make sense? I think I could be somewhat moderate until I see the ultra right saying that dems love abortion, are socialists, Obama is Hitler, etc. All that does is push me more toward the left!
I don't disagree. And, the more I see the right moving farther to the right, the more I want to fight for the left's causes. If everyone feels that way, we'll just keep getting farther apart. Does that make sense? I think I could be somewhat moderate until I see the ultra right saying that dems love abortion, are socialists, Obama is Hitler, etc. All that does is push me more toward the left!
I completely agree. The far-right's mentality as of late is completely alienating me from any Republican issues. I mean drawing a "Hitler moustache" on a pic of Obama, our President? Give me a break, and show some respect. He is our President, the President of The United States of America irreguardless of whether you personally like him. If I lost loved ones in the Holocaust or WW2, I would be furious! How are we supposed to bridge these types of gaps?
Watch HBO's documentary "Right America Feeling Wronged". It was a real eye opener for me. No matter what Obama does, the ppl who never wanted him in office to begin with, will take umbrage. They will find fault EVERYWHERE. I have always HATED it when ppl interjected race into every discussion as an explination, the Sharptons of the world who play the race card. That said, this may be the FIRST time that I am looking at race as a plausable reason for the continuing hatred and malice aimed at Obama. It is getting rediculous when some militant right-wing media types have openly instigated violent action against Obama or at least stating they hope he fails miserably even if a failure would mean certain harm to the American People. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face. Before the election, people kept asking the question if "we were ready for a black President". At the time, I found it stupid and maybe irrelevant. Now, however, I've got to wonder if we've really come that far? I certaintly would like to think so and I do think my generation(& the one after) probably has, but America as a whole? I don't know? Something has to be driving this level of hate when ppl are advocating succession for the first time since the Civil War. Obama has NOT done or passed anything to warrant this level of hate. Nobody batted an eye when Bush started a useless war & then lied about many things re: said war(wmd), or when he passed the Patriot Act which is something out of an Orwellian nightmare. How about when he vetoed coverage for under-insured kids? Now many yrs later, ppl say they hate Bush but not when many of these atrocities were happening. I'm sorry but I just don't get it.
Problem is not the younger generation it is the older generation that harbors the majority of the racism. Yes, there are younger people in my generation that harbor hate, but it certainly is not the majority of us. I honestly cannot wait until all of the old racist fossils die off. They give everyone of us a bad name. Hell, you cannot be a conservative anymore because of these dingbats. A lot of people made money on the divide and conquer with racism and they all stand to lose the Sharpton's, Limbaugh's, Becks, Jackson's, and etc all are losing their base of support and they have no clue on how to divide and conquer us anymore (except for the dumb older individuals that still harbor racist feelings)
I'm a libertarian and the hatred displayed by these individuals has pushed me to the point of no return. I cannot even carry on a decent conversation with any of these people. They sicken me and Libertarians don't practice or participate in racism. We focus on individuals and that is it!!!
What do they mean when they say the country is going in the wrong direction? The Bush years was the right direction? where is this coming from?
Obama is basically a soft conservative/centrist. Nothing he has done has been so anti Bush, at least not yet.
Wallstreet/Banks/Credit Card companies basically still have their power.
Health Care is still the same and theres no signs of it being any different.
The War against Terrorism is still on.
What has he done to wrong the nation??????
Re: country "going in the wrong direction" - the fact that the government is becoming more and more involved in running our lives. By bailing out private companies, instead of letting them fail naturally due to poor business practices, they are putting future generations into massive debt.
If you really think Obama is "soft conservative/centrist" you really are oblivious. When he was campaigning, he said that over and over. But since taking office, his appointments, policies and friends he surrounds himself with have shown that he is a far leftwing radical.
Wall Street/banks/credit cards still have their power because the federal government used our tax dollars to bail them out.
Health care is still the same, but it's not because Obama isn't trying like h**l to change it. He's out every day trying to sell his plan. The only reason it's not been changed is because of americans that are making it very apparent that they don't want it, and the government can't figure out how to pass it without pissing those people off (and losing their votes.)
The war against terrorism is still going strong, and will continue to do so. It will also become a harder and harder war to fight if our Commander in Chief keeps apologizing to the world for our actions, undermining our defenses, and wants to put a stranglehold on the CIA.
What has he done wrong? Unemployment is at record levels, businesses are going under at record rates, our national debt has tripled, and the corruption at the federal level is astounding.
Don't forget his plan to create a 2 million strong army of volunteers (heavily armed) that will break into your home, impregnate your daughter, then force her to have an abortion.
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