(December 16, 2011 at 8:09 pm)J.D. Wrote: I actually think president Obama has done a good job or as good as could be expected with a dysfunctional Congress. I am voting for Obama.
See, this I definately agree with.
Despite everything, it has been an uphill battle for him given that the republican party, tea party, and others have basically vowed to do everything it takes to get him not elected twice - even to the point of taking this country hostage to get what they want.
For a good example, google 'tea party tells businesses to stop hiring'. The GOP made a literal vow when they were elected into majority power in 2010.
My primary complaint against Obama is that he didn't do enough but considering his obstacles and dealing with congress, he did make out fairly well.
If he does get elected again, however, he NEEDS to do better. Too often has Obama "compromised" by giving republicans everything they wanted plus more for scraps of what we wanted - even when the democrats controlled EVERYTHING in '08, '09, and '10.
There's just no excuse for that. We could have gotten so much more and American might be a few fewer steps away from the terrible state we're in now.
Bloody spineless democrats.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
