Why I'll be voting for Obama

[cali]

I've hardly kept my disappointment with Obama a secret, but as I watch the republican House in action, and anticipate the almost certain loss of dem control of the Senate, I'm reminded that disgusted as I am by more than a few Obama policies, I positively shudder with horror at the possibility of a republican President and a Republican controlled Congress. Do I trust Obama to use the veto pen? Oddly enough, I do when it comes to many issues. Do I trust any republican president to veto, say, the elimination of the EPA or the Dept of Ed? No. Not for a nano second.

And there you have it.

[Cirque du So-What]

1. I have no problem with expressing our disappointment

but when it comes to an honest appraisal of the alternative - a repug in the Oval Office - it's literally 'no contest.'

[Jackpine Radical]

16. I too have been pretty critical of Obama.

Here, that is. Among my leftist co-conspirators.

It's a different tune when some outsider calls me for a poll.

[luvspeas]

2. Your sentiment needs to turn into action and lots of it...

Or there is no doubt that we will have teabaggers running amok in 2012.

[handmade34]

3. said it in the 2010 election...

may not like the Democratic choice but remember... Supreme Court Judges, committee heads, Speaker of the House, Senate Majority Leader... these and so much more are determined by who is in the majority

I am bitterly disappointed right now, about many things, but President Obama has accomplished some good things and you are right to shudder at the possibility of a Republican President and a Republican led Congress...

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. When you have a Two Party System your choices are limited

as are your realities........ Maybe something is terribly wrong with that?
Yes... I will vote for him but not work for him this time.

[Name removed]

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[Ichingcarpenter]

12. Extraordinary Rendition, Torture, War Crimes causing the deaths of 100 of thousands

Holding people without trial for almost a decade in Gitmo
Banksters and Wall Street plus all the other criminals I mentioned
held NOT ACCOUNTABLE

nevermind the pittance given to the middle class during these times

Yeah my vote will count to prevent the puppet on the right hand from being elected
and vote for the left hand puppet.

[luvspeas]

22. Congratualtions...

The Koch brothers are very happy to hear this.

[TBF]

23. I don't think the Koch Bros. would be too happy with my opinions -

because I believe Wisconsin needs to go viral all over this country. I am not in favor of people sitting at home - I am favor of them gathering in the streets. All of the streets. Voting doesn't do shit.

[kstewart33]

5. Obama is a centrist.

He always was. An exceptionally smart, pragmatic centrist. And that's fine with me.

[savior93]

7. Kstewart

That's is what I like about you. You have a since of humor.

[TBF]

11. He's not a centrist - he is conservative. Ike Eisenhower

expanded Social Security - the one program that works - and Obama is ready to make cuts. That's not a centrist, that's conservative. I appreciate that you support him, that is fine and I respect that, but please be honest about what you are supporting.

[TheKentuckian]

15. Ahh...the centrist or in other words a fascist not fixated on race, sex, and religion

A few rounds of the uncut stuff will be see the yoke thrown off more quickly by the masses than the watered down, multi-cultural version that is a little less cruel in the march for resource domination by the few.

I think the American people should either reject corporate authoritarianism or have the take the uncut dope until they have the predilection for authoritarianism beaten out of them.

[MannyGoldstein]

20. Slashing Social Security is a centrist value?

He ran as a centrist: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-june-15-2010/respect-my-authoritah

He rocketed to the right starting 1/20/09

[onehandle]

6. 2012 will be the first Presidential election that I will be voting against the Republican...

...rather than voting for the Democrat. It's not that I don't like him. It's the fact that he wasted so much political capitol being 'bipartisan,' rather than recognizing on day one, that they would not be.

Right now teabaggers are calling the shots. I don't want them to hold the final decisions too.

[blindpig]

8. Still 'hoping'?

[cali]

9. uh, no and you'd have to be blind not to notice that. duh.

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[MannyGoldstein]

13. Let's hope that we get an alternative running for the Democratic nomination

We can't withstand four more years of http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/07/0082562">Barack Hoover Obama.

[cali]

18. There won't be a viable alternative and a republican president

would be much, much worse. Combine that with a repub Congress, and we're talking the unthinkable.

[MannyGoldstein]

19. We don't know what the future holds

A month ago, would you have thought that Mubarek would be gone? That tens of thousands of protesters would be in the streets of Madison?

We must work towards a better future, not towards a slightly slower death.

[TBF]

24. Rec this post. Amen. nt

[mmonk]

14. I believe our fate is not in our hands through the ballot box in the future

unless we take a stand. We have to be a movement to get what we want as opposed to being told what we want. The Democratic Party ever since we delivered victories for it in 2006 has more or less dictated to all of us instead of listen to us.

[NNN0LHI]

17. That this even needed to be said shows how screwed we really are

Its like having someone explain why they plan on breathing air.

:scared:

Don

[patrice]

21. A Republican ascendancy will do more to harm the movement than it will do to help it.

People need something to stand on in order to be a movement. Further economic oppression will only nurture corporate critical mass, further enslave, rather than free people. We need as much time as possible to build the movement before it undergoes catastrophe, which it will eventually anyway, so we need more numbers in order to be more effective.

[LWolf]

25. Is it campaign season already?

:(

[cali]

29. I hope not. I was just thinking of it because of what the republican Househ

as been up to.

[LWolf]

33. I think that the weak opposition has emboldened them

to go screaming at top speed down the road of destruction before enough people actually quit rolling over.

[Autumn]

26. I think Obama will do less damage than the crazies,

so yeah I will vote for him. I don't want to but I will do it anyway.

[Hamlette]

28. I'll be supporting him to save our court system and by extension, our country

a few more citizens united cases and we're dead. One more right wing nut on the court (we already have 4 of the biggest ideologues in many years) and we're sunk.

[TahitiNut]

30. I'd voice disagreement with ANY President ... and would prefer one who could HEAR it.

Apparently unlike many others, I NEVER expected Obama to behave differently than he has. Maybe I knew what to expect because I read his books and listened to him. I supported him. I voted for him. (My primary support went to Kucinich, since his ideology best matches my own.) Despite my steadfast disagreement with some of the positions Obama has taken, he's LIGHTYEARS better than Dubya/Dick (sociopaths!) and is an amazingly high-integrity person. (Rarely, if ever, has there been an occupant of the White House with a more impressive character.)

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[Rex]

32. That will be the one and only reason I vote for him, if I have to.

nt