In addition to all the obvious reasons, another reason to re-elect Obama

[gateley]

is so we don't have to see McConnell smirking that he was successful in his raison d'etre to ensure Obama is a One Term President.

I hate him more with each passing day, and I would relish the opportunity to rub it in his face that he couldn't even achieve his one and only goal.

This was a result of hearing a clip this morning from FOX asking him what the GOP's job program/plan is, and he of course didn't answer except to start pointing out how Obama has failed, blah, blah, blah.

Scum.

[JDPriestly]

1. Yes. Let's face it. The only reason I will vote for Obama is that

he is the only person claiming a (D) behind his name who is willing to run.

He has done a better job than any of the Republican candidates could do, but he hasn't done a good job.

It's a shame, but it is how I feel.

I wish my Democratic congressman, Xavier Becerra, were running instead. He is a true progressive.

[FedUp_Queer]

4. It seems it's not often I agree with anyone on here.

However, in this case, I mostly agree with you. However, I will not be voting for Obama. After his national security state and military industrial complex on steroids, I just can't morally pull that lever. I guess, since my state is certain to go blue, I have that luxury. I'm NOT voting for a GOPher, but I just can't vote for another war-monger.

[slay]

9. I'm with you FedUp

morally - i can not vote for Obama either. i don't blame ya one bit. i am writing in Bernie Sanders.

[Tarheel_Dem]

2. Ditto! I'm in for all the obvious reasons. I think he's done a spectular job,

despite the missiles lobbed from the likes of Mitch McConnell. :kick:

[MNBrewer]

3. If McConnell had been lobbing missiles

Obama would be as dead as al Awlaki's 16 year old kid whom Obama murdered this week.

[Tarheel_Dem]

10. Yup. Obama murdered a kid. See why folks don't take liberals seriously?

And it's the reason only 20% of the electorate will admit to being liberal. :eyes:

[white_wolf]

15. Disgusting. If being against murder makes me fringe than so be it.

This country makes me sick.

[MNBrewer]

16. what percent of the electorate admires killers?

[FedUp_Queer]

5. Rendition and torture are spectacular?

[Tarheel_Dem]

11. If I believed you & Glenn Greenwald, it would be horrible. But I don't, so there.

:hi:

[FedUp_Queer]

12. There are certain people who don't matter.

You are one of them. I don't care what Glenn Greenwald says. I do, however, care what the ICRC says and Mother Jones and the BBC. And, no, it's not "LCR talking points."

[Tarheel_Dem]

13. Pisses you off that 82% of us want to reelect this president, don't it?

That makes it all the sweeter. :hi:

WE ARE THE 82%

[FedUp_Queer]

14. Huh?

I don't care if 100% of the people wanted to. People used to believe the world was flat. People used to believe the world was 6000 years old. When the majority of people thought that slavery was moral, that didn't make it moral. When the majority thought that blacks shouldn't marry whites, that didn't make it right. The majority of Republicans think Saddam had WMD; that he had something to do with 9/11. That doesn't make them true. It doesn't make me mad at all. I just shows that people don't care about facts. It shows that people have a different set of principles for a republican war monger than they do for a democratic war monger. Just as even if 100% of the people believed the earth were flat, wouldn't make it flat. Just as even if 100% of the people believed Obama to be a Muslim, that would not make him a Muslim. The fact is: the earth is not flat, it's round. The fact is Obama is not a Muslim, he's a Christian.

Similarly, the fact that he has an approval of 75%-80% among liberals means one thing: that he has an approval rating of 75%-80% among liberals. That, however, doesn't make him a liberal. I will bet of those 75%-80%, nearly 100% of them would be against indefinite detention (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/07/AR2011030704871.html), detaining individuals acquitted in courts (http://news.antiwar.com/2009/07/07/not-guilty-no-guarantee-obama-administration-will-release-detainees/), cutting programs for the poor (http://www.tampabay.com/news/localgovernment/as-obama-announces-cuts-in-block-grants-local-officials-calculate-aftermath/1151595; http://www.npr.org/2011/02/27/134058899/proposed-cuts-to-block-grants-spark-outrage-panic), rendition (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/4425135/Barack-Obama-to-allow-anti-terror-rendition-to-continue.html), torture (http://cageprisoners.com/our-work/opinion-editorial/item/1419-bagram-and-beyond-new-revelations-about-secret-us-torture-prisons-in-afghanistan;http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,650324,00.html;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8674179.stm).

Obama is not against torture, rendition, indefinite detention, jailing acquitted accused persons, etc. Mad, no, I'm not mad. But, the fact is, the emperor has no clothes and this man is just another George Bush in a lot of areas. I know I won't have that blood on my hands after 2012. You can't say the same thing.

[nichomachus]

6. Yes, like a spectacular train wreck

[nineteen50]

7. It appears the right wing wants Obama the corporatist re-elected

why else would they run such bat ass crazy losers.

[slay]

8. More of a reason not to elect the GOP than to elect Obama

if we had another choice on the Dem side - there is no way in hell Obama would get my vote.

[quinnox]

17. *shrug* Mcconnell has always seemed a non-entity to me

At this point, a solid indifference has become the main feeling I have regarding Obama being re-elected. He has governed like a Mitt Romney anyway, so its not like it would be a gigantic change if Romney replaced him. It's not as if Obama has conducted his presidency like a liberal Democrat or any kind of progressive.