Thankfully my district was a blowout for Obama, when i stayed at home. If it came down to 300 votes likes yours did, and i had to witness the disaster Obama has been, i would have felt personally responsible. I have a feeling that this time around there isnt going to be any people like me who stay at home, just because they dont 100% support the nominee on one side or the other. This time around, i can promise you no one will fuck up and unintentionally contribute to the "obamanation."
Even Ralph Nadar couldn't draw enough votes this time to turn the table on the dems. It would have only been fair since Billy Bob Clinton never won by a majority.
there is no doubt in my mind that Bush was a total f*kup as the president. i just can't imagine anybody, including Gore or Nader, screwing things up the way Bush did. I bet Pspr would have been a better president. Why did not you write in your own name?
You would be wrong. The main problem with Bush is that he valued the reverence of the Office of President so much that he refused to defend himself in his second term and let the Dems plaster lie after lie about him and his policies without rebuttal.
OMFG! Let's take a moment to recognize this steaming pile of bullshit as one of the most jaw dropping, read it in stunned disbelief posts ever written at ET. You sir, have outdone yourself.
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Let's not get sidetracked onto Bush bashing. He was a terrible president. It fries me when I see that pompous toad Karl Rove on TV attacking Tea Party candidates. Back to the present. We see large european countries like Italy and Spain facing big increases in their borrowing costs. These are not jokes like Greece. These are real countries with big economies. People can't imagine it happening here. Maybe it doesn't. It's not like investors have a lot of places to stash their money. T-bonds staged a massive rally during the debt ceiling debate, when we were being told constantly that we faced disaster. But why tempt fate? If our borrowing costs went up dramatically, our debt service would sink our budget. And poduce a depression at the same time. Scary. The debt ceiling deal doesn't decrease our spending at all. It increases it by some 7 trillion. The only bright spot is it would have increased by 10 trillion. Our debt will be way higher than they are predicting. For one thing, they are ludicrously predicting 3% GDP growth. Plug in <1% and see what those numbers do. The only way out of this mess is to cap spending. Reallocate from discretionary, ie government departments, to social security and medicare. Enact meaningful reforms that will apply to young adults when they reach retirement age. Until then, we have no choice but to cut the rest of government to save these programs. Obama, Pelosi et al are in willful denial about what will happen. Maybe they want the entire eocnomy to go bust so they can try to reorg it along socialist lines. That's really the only rational explanation for their actions. Tht and some of the most craven, vile political calculations imaginable. Make no mistakes. This fight is just beginning. This deal solved nothing.