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Will You Vote for Obama?

Will You Vote for Obama

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TurtleDude said:
you must be doing more than merely drinking the Obama koolaid to even suggest Obama is half is great as lincoln
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Considering he was talking about experience before either took office, your rather lame comeback fails pretty badly.
 
disneydude said:
Be careful...Nader is responsible for giving us GWB.
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i respectfully disagree disneydude. before people blame Nader they should blame the millions of people who voted for Bush. they are responsible for giving you GWB. they should also blame Gore. at the end of the day, ultimately it was Gores election to win or lose. blame those individuals who stopped the recounts that would have solved the problem.

every third party candidate on the Florida ballot, and there were quite a few, received more votes than was the difference between Gore and Bush. so why is no one blaming Buchanan for stealing the election? or the libertarians? or any of the other third party candidates.

Bush won by 537 votes. only the write ins had less than that.

George W. Bush Richard Cheney Republican 2,912,790 48.85% 25
Albert Gore Jr. Joseph Lieberman Democratic 2,912,253 48.84% 0
Ralph Nader Winona LaDuke Green 97,488 1.63% 0
Patrick Buchanan Ezola Foster Reform 17,484 0.29% 0
Harry Browne Art Olivier Libertarian 16,415 0.28% 0
John Hagelin A. Nat. Goldhaber Natural Law 2,281 0.04% 0
Monica Moorehead Gloria La Riva World Workers 1,804 0.03% 0
Howard Phillips J. Curtis Frazier Constitution 1,371 0.02% 0
David McReynolds Mary Cal Hollis Socialist 622 0.01% 0
James Harris Margaret Trowe Soc. Workers 562 0.01% 0
Write-ins - - 40 0.00%
 
ADG said:
As a Democrat, Liberal, Progressive, etc., if the election were to be held today, would you vote for President Obama?

I am on the fence at this point. He has done many good things, but he has also dissappointed me in grave ways as well.

What about you, my fellow bleeding heart? Will you vote for him?
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No.

I strongly disagree with the majority of President Obama's policies.
 
I voted I don't know because I want to see who the republican candidate is.. Things are looking pretty bad for the repubs at the moment.. Romney appears to be the only viable candidate they have.. If that is so, then Obama will get my vote..

Don't start on the 2000 election.. Bush lost.. His brother helped him..

In 2000, a clear majority of Americans voted for Al Gore. But the winner is determined by the Electoral College, so the winner in each state must be considered. The vote in Florida was so close that it took a month to declare a winner. Before Florida was declared, Gore led in the Electoral College with 266 votes to Bush's 246 votes. When Bush was declared the winner of Florida by 537 votes, he picked up 25 Electoral College votes which gave him the Presidency.
But Bush only won Florida because of poorly designed butterfly ballots that stole votes from Gore, and because his Florida campaign manager Republican Secretary of State Kathleen Harris and Governor Jeb Bush illegally removed 57,700 voters from the rolls. It is estimated that 90% of them were Democratic. So this represent thousands of votes stolen from Al Gore. If this crime had not been commited then Gore would be President.

No matter what we believe about who really won, we must admit that the election was very close. So one would expect that Bush would respect the opinions and desires of the clear majority of Americans who voted for Gore and Nader. Yet Bush charges ahead, promoting a far right agenda that is repugnant to most Americans, as if he had a mandate from the voters.
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3/12/01 - CNN reports that the confusing butterfly ballot used in Florida's Palm Beach County cost Gore 6,607 votes. This means that Gore actually beat Bush in Florida by 6,070 votes. Thus Gore won BOTH the popular vote and, by rights, the Electoral College vote. It is time for Mr. Bush to step down and for the rightfully elected President Gore to take office.

CNN.com - Newspaper: Butterfly ballot cost Gore White House - March 11, 2001

And them voting machines that didn't give reciepts helped him win again in 2004.. Bush even pressured Ridge to use the theat level to manipulate the election..

Uh-oh: Ridge says Bush WH pressured him to raise terror threat levels for re-election « Hot Air

So in all seriousness.. Bush will go down in history as the only president to serve two terms but was never elected..
 
The Campaign has begun folks!


Barack Obama 2012 Campaign Launch Video



Obama For America 2012 - Are You In?:

"The politics we believe in starts not with expensive TV ads or extravaganzas, but with you — with people organizing block-by-block, talking to neighbors, co-workers and friends.

And that kind of campaign takes time to build. So even though the race may not reach full speed for a year or more, the work of laying the foundation for our campaign must start today.

In the coming days, supporters like you will begin forging a new organization that we'll build together in cities and towns across the country. And we'll need you to help shape our plan as we create a campaign that's farther reaching, more focused, and more innovative than anything we've built before.

We'll start by doing something unprecedented: coordinating millions of one-on-one conversations between supporters across every single state, reconnecting old friends, inspiring new ones to join the cause, and readying ourselves for next year's fight."
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ADG said:
As a Democrat, Liberal, Progressive, etc., if the election were to be held today, would you vote for President Obama?

I am on the fence at this point. He has done many good things, but he has also dissappointed me in grave ways as well.

What about you, my fellow bleeding heart? Will you vote for him?
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Unsure. I'd like to see who the Republican candidate is before I make a decision.

I am also considering my own run for President.
 
Nah, I'm running for president, if a Kenyan can do it, so can an Aussie. :mrgreen:
 
CaptainCourtesy said:
Unsure. I'd like to see who the Republican candidate is before I make a decision.

I am also considering my own run for President.
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The super hero outfit may be a bit much for some.
 
CaptainCourtesy said:
It adds a certain something to it, though, don't you think? :2razz:
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I don't know.............your current get-up is kind of thuggish looking, perhaps a new motif is in order for a presidential run ~

superhero.jpg
 
Catawba said:
I don't know.............your current get-up is kind of thuggish looking, perhaps a new motif is in order for a presidential run ~

superhero.jpg
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Hmmm... I really like that. Perhaps an upgrade would be appropriate.
 
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Badmutha said:
Can you give one example of his "Moderation"? The Kenyan Tyrant has never crossed the aisle......as Tyrant......or Senator.
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Um... Bush tax cuts, gitmo, more war, abandoning everything we wanted in healthcare reform and mandating more power for insurance companies, bailing out all those corporate pricks who caused the recession (I know the tea partiers flipped out over some of this stuff, but it was still a pro-business move)

"Independent".....who votes Democrat every time........because of those evil alternatives to insanity.
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You mean me? I vote socialist most of the time. I would vote for republicans if they espoused ideas I agree with. I mean in fact, not on paper. Some of their stated objectives are pretty good, but they don't actually do any of those things. But yeah, in a hypothetical election between a really crazy left-winger and a reasonable republican, I'd probably go with the reasonable guy. I just haven't ever seen such an election.

I stand with the Founders......for Freedom and Liberty..........and against any and all who infringe.
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You're either crazy, or the greatest troll I've ever met. I really hope it's the latter.
 
Catawba said:
Given your views, I'm not at all surprised you don't agree with the majority that consider him one of our greatest presidents. :sun
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I think the majority of people consider Lincoln a great President because they are told so in grade school. The guy was a tyrant.
 
digsbe said:
I do think that they have more clout then that
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Considering the uncanny consistency of presidents' policies (their enacted ones, not their states ones), I'm becoming less and less certain of that.
 
CaptainCourtesy said:
Unsure. I'd like to see who the Republican candidate is before I make a decision.

I am also considering my own run for President.
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You are to late. I have already announced my candidacy.

Blackdog supposedly black and loving it!

Vote Blackdog, Vote for different.
 
Lets see, if his healthcare gets reversed, he lowers taxes like he's saying he might do now, keeps hammering the terrorist savages, stays away from gun control, opens drilling, heck I may vote for him. :lamo


Dood campaigned hard left, made a right turn in the last few months. Pragmatic?
 
ReverendHellh0und said:
Lets see, if his healthcare gets reversed, he lowers taxes like he's saying he might do now, keeps hammering the terrorist savages, stays away from gun control, opens drilling, heck I may vote for him. :lamo


Dood campaigned hard left, made a right turn in the last few months. Pragmatic?
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Nailing terrorist is not a right turn. It's just kicking ass.
 
I voted on the poll before reading the OP

I apologize for skewing the data
 
Catawba said:
Given your views, I'm not at all surprised you don't agree with the majority that consider him one of our greatest presidents. :sun
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the majority of citizens are more able to name the remaining finalists in American Idol than their own state's two senators or the Chief Justice of the United States

quantity might win elections over quality but appealing to mass stupidity is hardly a winning argument to the enlightened
 
Catawba said:
I don't know.............your current get-up is kind of thuggish looking, perhaps a new motif is in order for a presidential run ~

superhero.jpg
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What CC would look like on 'roids. :mrgreen:
 
TurtleDude said:
the majority of citizens are more able to name the remaining finalists in American Idol than their own state's two senators or the Chief Justice of the United States

quantity might win elections over quality but appealing to mass stupidity is hardly a winning argument to the enlightened
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We are well aware of your disdain for the middle class, so you don't have to keep repeating it in every post. :sun
 
ReverendHellh0und said:
Drill baby drill, and tax cuts is.... He's channeling his inner Palin. :ssst:
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He campaigned that he would drill as a short term measure, but not as a solution in and of itself.
 
I would commit suicide before even considering voting for Obama.
 
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