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In reply to the discussion: Michele Bachmann: Hillary can’t ride wave of white ‘guilt’ into office like Obama did [View all]glowing
(12,233 posts)They actually can't believe that we would vote for President Obama because we wanted to vote for him. Yeah, the historical election of our first African American Pres was cool as all hell... but he pulled out of the pack because he was against the Iraq War and gave a speech against it when it was extremely unpopular to go agaisnt Bush in any context (shit, I had to lower my head and watch what I said and to whom I said it to down in FL). That was one of the biggest issues, along with all the illegal shit like torture, Gitmo prison, warantless wiretaps, the Patriot Act, NDAA.. these were really big issues at that time.
The economy in free fall sort of over took these other issues (still incredibly important issues). AND of course, as soon as he was inaugurated, the fake-assed TeaParty was created. Basically, the Republicans were in so much trouble, they let the crazies out of the closet and now they have actual power in the House and Senate and a handful are taking this country down because these crazies were lied to forever. Grew up with lies and ingnorance. AND now they have actual seats of power and they are burning the country down. They are doing a horrible job in the states. Look at NC, WI, OH, PA, FL, TX, LA, MS, SC.. All these Southern states are in near ruins. Those in charge have no care or desire to serve the people they represent or any desire to make things better for "all" of its state's residents; they care about theirselves first, family, cronies, and their wealthy friends. They don't care for the poor, homeless, jobs, environment, education of the masses (other than what types of money they can launder out of the public till with their charter school scams)... They are the worst things that have been allowed to exist AND for some damned reason, people keep electing them.