Give Obama a break! Our fellow citizens handpicked the GOP Congress he must deal with

[mfcorey1]

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Unfortunately, in more than half the States, and in Congress, a meaningful number of our fellow Americans opted to elect legislators who have proven to be ignorant, money grubbing whores, captives of irrational thinking, followers of toxic religious dogma, and/or racists. Those key defining attributes create the attitude of the 2013 Republican negotiating partner Obama faces across the table. In other words, the Republicans are either incapable of understanding, do not know, or could not care less about the consequences of sticking to their agenda. But Obama does know, he cares about the consequences, and as much as it hurts to leave meritorious points on the table, he has to get the best deal he can from the particularly dumb or perverted people with whom he must bargain. Therefore he must act defensively to protect the well being of as many of those needing governmental benefits that he can rescue, and he must be the guardian of the sakes of the millions of Americans the Republicans do not recognize as being their financial contributors or voters-and who thus mean nothing to them.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/01/1175532/-Give-Obama-a-break-Our-fellow-citizens-handpicked-the-GOP-Congress-he-must-deal-with

[Peace Patriot]

1. Unfortunately, in half the States, ES&S/Diebold is 'counting' the votes with 'TRADE SECRET' code...

and NO AUDIT AT ALL (automatic comparison of ballots to electronic results), with only a miserably inadequate 1% audit in the other half.

So YOU CANNOT SAY that, "Unfortunately, in more than half the States, and in Congress, a meaningful number of our fellow Americans opted to elect legislators who have proven to be ignorant, money grubbing whores, captives of irrational thinking, followers of toxic religious dogma, and/or racists."

a) You can't prove it. No one has, and no one can!

b) It is probably NOT true. This ES&S/Diebold Congress is THE most unrepresentative Congress we have ever seen in the modern era. This is the "control" that the far rightwing-connected ES&S/Diebold has over our government and the noose they have around the necks of our political leaders and of all of us.

Your argument (in support of Obama) is therefore meaningless. You CAN say that Congress critters are ignorant assholes. You CAN'T say that they were elected. And you especially can't say it of the half of the States which do NO AUDIT of these machines--which are the same half that send ignorant, money-grubbing assholes to Congress.

Obama is going along with this "control" system, though he doesn't have to, since he is in his second term. But I will give him the benefit of the doubt, that he is one of the ones with a noose around his neck and not an active colluder in rigged elections. But, frankly, political leaders AND political commenters (such as yourself) who DON'T say, upfront, before every political statement about the American people, that this election system is UNVERIFIABLE, don't have much credit with me. We DON'T KNOW who the American people want in office because the vote counting does NOT take place in the PUBLIC VENUE. The system has been privatized!

[UnrepentantLiberal]

2. One word:

Gerrymandering.

[DiverDave]

3. And HE hand picked his cabinet

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