Name something a candidate you supported did that you dont agree with.

[george_maniakes]

Could be any candidate from any party running in this presidential cycle that you wanted to win. Could be either a policy position you dont agree with or something he/she said.

I wish Obama was more in favor of normalizing u.s./cuba relations, as in using the policy that the states uses for china (spreading "democracy and human rights and freedom, etc" through trade , diplomacy and open borders) towards cuba.

[polichick]

1. Obama is willing to include Bush Sr. in his administration somehow.

[NoBushSpokenHere]

2. I didn't like hearing my candidate Obama

praise George H. Bush. I believe that was a mistake. Didn't change my mind about supporting him but I believe people are fed up with the Bush's including George I.

[Drachasor]

14. I disagree there. I think the first Bush was a largely competent President

I don't agree with the first Bush on many things, but he decent enough.

[Whisp]

22. He is not at all decent.

I don't mean to snark at you, but that man is a criminal. a war mongering Carlye groupnick that profits from misery and spawned the little demon seed all have to suffer under for all this time.

when I think of the word decent, Senior is not there.

[NoBushSpokenHere]

27. He bombed Iraq ... on the first oil mission not accomplished... nt

[SoFlaJet]

3. Bill Clinton....

in this campaign has become a major disappointment to this democrat. he qualifies since I "supported" him AND vociferously DEFENDED both he and Hillary for fucking years. To see him on the trail has been shocking to me to say the least.

[polichick]

4. That's a hard one for me too - makes me wish I hadn't worked his campaigns.

[SoFlaJet]

7. and Poli

all the years we spent here and everywhere else defending the Clinton's as our own beacon of light-to see them tearing the party apart-well, it made me choose Obama OVER her after Edwards dropped out (actually right before our Fla primary when it became clear that JE was no longer viable)

[gateley]

5. Biden --

Didn't come in off the campaign trail to be present on the Senate floor when Dodd began his filibuster.

That REALLY bothered me.

[cornermouse]

6. Before I had really made up my mind

about who I wanted to support (Edwards) Clinton, Obama, and Edwards all said that they weren't going to get us out of Iraq immediately. That was extremely disappointing to put it mildly.

To me, getting out of Iraq immediately would stop the massive hemorrhage of money that we're having. We could then put the money to use here helping Americans rebuild New Orleans, stabilizing our economy, and restoring the safety net that Bush and the repubs have almost destroyed.

[dana_b]

8. Obama didn't vote

on that bill- the Iranian one (sorry, i'm brain dead today due to a looooong week)- that declared an Iranian group as a terrorist organization. I don't know where he was, but he should have been there.

[Drachasor]

16. There are a few things I'd have liked him to vote against

[Barack_America]

19. Kyle-Lieberman.

Yep, I too wish he had taken a stand on that one.

He says that he didn't vote because he didn't want to "play Bush's game". I still think that a "nay" vote would've been a stronger indication of that.

[Muttocracy]

9. Biden: believing Colin Powell -> Iraq war vote

His opposition, esp. combined with others, would have held a lot of weight with other senators.

He got on the right side of the issue in a few months though.

And I was pleased that in his recently revamped senate website the photo of him with Powell is gone! :D

[Sparkly]

10. General Clark & Al Gore

Clark on the flag-desecration thing (I'm on the side of free speech), although when the GOP pushed it, I saw it as a trap for the Democrats... Also on depleted uranium -- just very uncomfortable about all that.

Al Gore, and I assume Clark also -- pro-death penalty.

[MethuenProgressive]

11. Richardson. He dropped out.

Clearly the best person for the job.

[LWolf]

12. Dennis Kucinich

was once pro-life. Before I ever supported him for anything.

Joe Biden: The bankruptcy bill.
Richardson: His relationship with the DLC, and his endorsement of Obama.
Edwards: His vote for the IWR and work on and vote for the Patriot Act.

If any one of them were left on the ballot when my primary rolls around in May, they'd have my vote.

[nxylas]

20. I don't know if this really qualifies

But Kucinich falling into Pumpkinhead's elephant trap about the UFO made me seriously lose faith in him. It wasn't so much that he said he'd seen a UFO as the way that he allowed Russert to control the narrative. To a lot of voters the conversation must have sounded like this:

RUSSERT: Are you a New Age kook?
KUCINICH: Yes I am, Tim. Goddess of Peace, Shirley McLaine, Hare Krishna.

It would have been very easy to answer it in such a way that he didn't come across like that, emphasising that UFO just means Unidentified Flying Object and that lots of people have seen things that they can't explain, but nooooo....

[FlyingSquirrel]

13. I didn't agree with Edwards dropping out.

At least not initially.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

15. Why give the Pukes talking points?

[PM7nj]

17. I don't like some of Obama's environmental policies

I don't like his support of clean coal and his vote for Cheney's energy bill (I know, it was great for Illinois, but... ehh). I didn't like how he used that McClurkin guy either. I think those are the only things, though. Fortunately his positives greatly outnumber his negatives.

[babylonsister]

23. McClurkin here, too. nt

[uponit7771]

24. I like clean coal and think Big Oil fights against it seeing the potential and he's come out against

...against the way churches treat gays.

The thing I don't like is the support of federalizing some class action suites...

That bother me more than anything and I've not heard and explanation

[PM7nj]

26. I know, I still didn't like it though.

Obama has been very good on gay issues, I just wish he didn't use McClurkin. I'm not going to hold it against him though, it is in the past and his record has showed he is just as good as Hillary on gay issues. It isn't an issue with me, I just felt a bit disappointed about it all.

With clean coal, I just see that it is as a creation by the coal industry to deceive people. Coal can never really be clean and while I think it has a place, it should not be quite as prominent as Obama puts it.

I haven't heard about the class action suits, I will have to look into that.

[Buzz Clik]

18. I was totally opposed to Al Gore losing in 2000.

[woolldog]

21. I didn't like that Obama

said that he was friends with Clinton before the race and will be friends with her after the race; I also don't like that he said she's a worthy adversary.

I disagree with him on those issues.

[Vinca]

25. We need universal, single payer healthcare, not the insurance

schemes both Obama and Clinton are proposing.