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Wed Dec-15-10 09:31 AM
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Poll question: Support Obama Then/Now? |
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Edited on Wed Dec-15-10 09:36 AM by Dawgs
Somebody just emailed Stephanie Miller and told her that she thinks everyone against Obama now probably didn't back him in the 2008 primaries. I call bullshit, but I might be wrong.
Of course Stephanie and Hal Sparks agree with the generalization.
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Wed Dec-15-10 09:33 AM
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1. do you mean we backed others in the field of candidates? nt |
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Wed Dec-15-10 09:34 AM
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Wed Dec-15-10 09:36 AM
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3. I no longer admire BO as I once did. |
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I would prefer voting for someone else and will if BO decides not to run for a second term. But if he is the dem candidate in 2012, I will vote for him with great reluctance and distaste. As always, it's because of the SCOTUS. Justice Ginsberg is very frail and we cannot risk another repub appointment.
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Wed Dec-15-10 09:46 AM
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8. It's scary to think that in spite of everything, the POTUS might |
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appoint that right-thinker anyway, just in the spirit of bipartisanship or unity or some such nonsense...HOPE, that's wrong.
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Wed Dec-15-10 09:46 AM
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I can't see him nominating anyone even remotely liberal for the next supreme court vacancy if he gets that opportunity.
He didn't have the stomach for a fight with Kagan, I can't see him suddenly growing a set for a fight with smaller majorities.
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Wed Dec-15-10 09:36 AM
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4. I still support him ... |
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... unless someone better comes along. Right now, Obama, even with his increasing number of flaws, is still the most effectiven leader among the Democrats.
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Wed Dec-15-10 09:37 AM
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5. I support him in the sense that I still want him to be successful |
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and do the right thing.
But I do not support several of his key decisions that are getting in the way of him being successful - especially in helping the economy - and doing the right thing.
I think he needs to be pressured to make the right decisions, because the only pressure he's bending to is pulling him in the wrong direction.
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Wed Dec-15-10 09:38 AM
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Wed Dec-15-10 09:46 AM
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Wed Dec-15-10 09:45 AM
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7. I chose to vote for him (in the primaries and in the general.) |
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Edited on Wed Dec-15-10 10:08 AM by BlueIris
But I wouldn't characterize my feelings for him as ones of "support." I did it because I thought he would make better foreign policy decisions than his primary opponents and better decisions than John McCain.
I've lost the ability to recall what was going through my brain at that time. Probably some bullshit about how I was "making history happen" in addition to removing unacceptable candidates from the field. But to say that I no longer support him is the understatement of the century, and to say that I am embarrassed, indeed ashamed, of the choices I made in 2008 is being quite generous.
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Wed Dec-15-10 09:51 AM
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11. Don't be ashamed. Like me, you believed that he would actually fight for us. |
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Edited on Wed Dec-15-10 09:51 AM by Dawgs
In 2008 it appeared that he was one of us. It wasn't until HCR that we learned the truth - sadly.
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Wed Dec-15-10 09:54 AM
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12. Because McCain would have been MUCH better on foreign policy. Maybe we need 3 or 4 wars. |
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Wed Dec-15-10 10:41 AM
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Give the man a chance, he's working on it. He's a swell guy but you can't expect him to be screwing the American working class to the floor and terrorize the world at the same time, can ya? It's only been two years!
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Wed Dec-15-10 10:12 AM
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15. he did a really good job of acting, on the tv |
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dont feel to bad he fooled us all
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Wed Dec-15-10 09:57 AM
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13. Voted for him in the primary and on election day, but I'm ashamed that I fell for |
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Edited on Wed Dec-15-10 09:58 AM by myrna minx
the Obama PR machine. Sadly, I canceled my Steph cast subscription because I wasn't going to pay money for her to call me a whiner, a purist and sanctimonious because I don't support republican policies. :hi:
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Wed Dec-15-10 10:10 AM
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14. He was my second choice in the primaries |
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I picked him over Hillary, but was worried about his inexperience in the executive branch. Most of my worst fears have come true.
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Wed Dec-15-10 10:20 AM
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16. Not only did I back him, I was a delegate. |
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I love Steph but lately, she is being just a shill.
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Wed Dec-15-10 12:45 PM
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18. So only 33% support him as I read the poll |
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People need to think about the alternative.
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