(August 3, 2012 at 6:35 pm)Faith No More Wrote:Tiberius Wrote:You see it in this thread too; despite being told that their ideal candidate is this Jill Stein character, a couple of people have said they are voting for Obama anyway.
I would love to vote for this Jill Stein character, but if I don't vote for Obama(which is essentially a vote against Romney rather than for Obama) and Romney won, I couldn't live with myself.
Ditto for me. The dream of the ideal must never be used to justify acceptance of an actual nightmare. Besides, anyone who thinks they'd do x, y and z if they miraculously became president just doesn't understand how very little power or authority there is in that office. Politics is always about the possible and I trust Obama's ability to assess this accurately more than I do someone with their head in the sky.
Obama is smart enough to perceive any opportunity to improve the lot of poor and working class people through achievable legislation and to do what is necessary to that end. Incremental change is the only kind anyone is justified in believing in. Those who order the "pie in the sky" may wind up instead with more unfunded wars of opportunity and more deregulation in favor of the 1% over the rest of us.
