RE: Oh Shit ... Here we go ...
June 16, 2011 at 1:18 pm
(This post was last modified: June 16, 2011 at 1:27 pm by everythingafter.)
(June 16, 2011 at 9:38 am)DeistPaladin Wrote: I live in Kentucky, a state so solidly Republican that we're permanently colored red on all the election result maps. Literally, before any other states are called, you typically see Kentucky lit up red.
Wow. A state more red than the stupidvilles of South Carolina (home state) and Georgia (current residence). Amazing.
(June 16, 2011 at 9:38 am)DeistPaladin Wrote: I campaigned door-to-door for Obama in 08. He turned out to be all talk and no action. That spineless political coward who threw us under the bus for the last four years won't be getting my vote this time around.
I too was inspired by the man and a little let down, but you can't say he did nothing. He got health care reform passed, the stimulus passed, tracked down Osama, ended the war in Iraq and all the while haggled by Republicans who voted "no" at every turn simply out of spite.
(June 16, 2011 at 9:38 am)DeistPaladin Wrote: I've really started to wonder if liberals boycotted the election, let the Republicans win and teach the Democrats a hard lesson, hard enough that they learn not to take us for granted anymore. It would suck for four years but this would be like chemotherapy for the party's spine.
Sounds like a good plan in theory, but I don't think it would work in practice since it would be hard enough to get that many people to agree on anything much less get them to en masse take action (or in this case, no action) ... unless another figure like the candidate Obama surfaced to inspire us once again.
(June 15, 2011 at 9:47 pm)Cinjin Wrote: Are you going to be voting for Obama in 2012 regardless of who the Republicans nominate? Will you even consider a Republican?
Probably won't consider a Republican since the entire Republican program runs counter to my political ideology and is an adversary of progress, as it has been for a very long time in this country (Previously, in the form of the old Democrats of the 19th century. Republicans in the mid-19th century were analogous to modern Democrats in many ways). I won't automatically vote for Obama and will consider a third party candidate although I know they have no chance in hell of making a dint American psyche.
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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea | By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown | Till human voices wake us, and we drown. — T.S. Eliot
"... man always has to decide for himself in the darkness, that he must want beyond what he knows. ..." — Simone de Beauvoir
"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again." — Albert Camus, "The Stranger"
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