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If you're a straight white male......are you expected or supposed to vote Republican and strongly dislike Obama?
Idiotic question. We all have a brain and the whole theory behind democracy is that we all know how to use them.
I'm white, I'm hetero, I'm a political agnostic and I voted for Barack Obama last time. Astoundingly, I didn't suddenly turn black or gay after I voted for him.
Now I feel like an idiot for voting for Obama. George W had us running in the wrong direction and now Obama has us sprinting in that same wrong direction. Everything important he said he'd fix he didn't The economy, outsourcing, gas prices, the national debt, money wasted on wars overseas, Gitmo, gridlock in Washington, etc. If it didn't get worse under Obama, none of it got any better.
Obama only bothered to pull out of Iraq at the last minute, realizing that if he didn't he could kiss re-election goodbye. He did get bin Laden and I'm glad he did that much, but he failed to do all the important stuff.
Obama's first term has been political snobbery at it's finest. He likes to do things by executive order ... a lot. He likes to force-feed the American people programs they didn't want. Obamacare anyone? Obama has acted well beyond his authority as President too many times for me to be comfortable with. If he can't get his way via Congress, he does it his own way without their approval. Kinda like Julius Caesar or Adolf Hitler, he feels he knows what is best for for the USA and will act accordingly even if it is against the will of the majority of the American people.
But what do I know, I'm just a white heterosexual man.
Please don't tell me you are a Michigan State University grad with logic like that.
I kinda forgot that I posted this.
Anyway, it's a rhetorical question. Obviously, people can vote for anybody they want to, regardless of demographics. It's more to point out my frustration at some posters here who insinuate that minorities, gay people, and occasionally women (although not as much as the first two groups) are not real or second-rate Americans, and they're the ones supporting Obama (presumably these posters think that these groups are dumb.) I strongly disagree with that sentiment, regardless of whom I end up voting for.
Yes, I'm a Michigan State University grad; sometimes my posting style is a bit sarcastic like this.
Anyway, it's a rhetorical question. Obviously, people can vote for anybody they want to, regardless of demographics. It's more to point out my frustration at some posters here who insinuate that minorities, gay people, and occasionally women (although not as much as the first two groups) are not real or second-rate Americans, and they're the ones supporting Obama (presumably these posters think that these groups are dumb.) I strongly disagree with that sentiment, regardless of whom I end up voting for.
Yes, I'm a Michigan State University grad; sometimes my posting style is a bit sarcastic like this.
Try putting some context into your post. You posted one essentially cheap sentence.
Is it fair to ask the converse of your original post?
A breif summary on the intelectual content of this thread
Brief and intellectual are misspelled btw. Did you go to MSU too?
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