A T, I genuinely try to refrain from blasting you. The few times we have not argued about politics or religion, we get along fairly well [the discussion on WWII aviation, for example]. But...c'mon, man, you're starting to play the butt-hurt conservative thing a bit too hard. I hate to use a sound-bit, but... "We survived 8 years under Bush, you'll damn well survive 8 years under Obama."
I'm not saying Obama is perfect or anything. He's not. I have a LOT to criticize him for; his persecution of medical marijuana users, his continuation of the war on drugs, his stance on NDAA, his constant attempts to extend the olive branch to the republicans who clearly have no interest in doing anything more than slapping it away so they can scream that it's been trampled on, his refusal to shut down Guantanamo Bay, and his inaction on taxes; he needs to raise them already. Middle and lower class, no, but upper class, yes. The only person who should ever be defending tax cuts for the rich are the rich themselves; if you don't make $250k a year, you literally have no business in defending lowered taxes on those who do.
See, all these things I, as a libertarian-socialist [may sound rather contradictive, but it's as close as I can get to accurately describing my varied stances] can openly criticize about him about because we don't think he's perfect, because he isn't.
However, this is in stark contrast to the republican party which INSISTS it's their way or the hellway. That's right, according to every single republican, the republican party can, right now, do no wrong! In fact, THEY can do BETTER! But when asked WHAT they can do better, I get nothing but half-answers, unsatisfactory idealism, or ideas that are just straight-up disastrous if they were to be put into practice.
See the problem here, yet? I kinda hope you do.
I'm not saying Obama is perfect or anything. He's not. I have a LOT to criticize him for; his persecution of medical marijuana users, his continuation of the war on drugs, his stance on NDAA, his constant attempts to extend the olive branch to the republicans who clearly have no interest in doing anything more than slapping it away so they can scream that it's been trampled on, his refusal to shut down Guantanamo Bay, and his inaction on taxes; he needs to raise them already. Middle and lower class, no, but upper class, yes. The only person who should ever be defending tax cuts for the rich are the rich themselves; if you don't make $250k a year, you literally have no business in defending lowered taxes on those who do.
See, all these things I, as a libertarian-socialist [may sound rather contradictive, but it's as close as I can get to accurately describing my varied stances] can openly criticize about him about because we don't think he's perfect, because he isn't.
However, this is in stark contrast to the republican party which INSISTS it's their way or the hellway. That's right, according to every single republican, the republican party can, right now, do no wrong! In fact, THEY can do BETTER! But when asked WHAT they can do better, I get nothing but half-answers, unsatisfactory idealism, or ideas that are just straight-up disastrous if they were to be put into practice.
See the problem here, yet? I kinda hope you do.