The following is MY opinion and response to yours Rat....
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Originally Posted by ratbastid
In my opinion, the last administration was eight years of the worst thing that could possibly happen to America. Our last president so profoundly fucked shit up, it's hard for those of us at street level to even really get our heads around it. To whatever small degree we DID get our heads around it, some were outraged, and spoke.
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I did speak out. And he was by far the worst to that point.
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Now we have someone in office who's actually trying to mend that damage, and put through an agenda that takes care of average Americans. And he's facing a pissed off right wing that feels like their guy was called out for the last eight years (although he was actually pretty untouchable for the first several of those, and those speaking out were consistently marginalized and ignored by the "liberal media"), and now want to hit back in kind or worse. So you get tea party protesters who are protesting to protest, who don't know anything about the thing they're protesting except that a talking head on their favorite "news" channel told them it's bad. And it's justified because it's no worse than what "they" did to "our guy".
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I think the man in office now has far too many issues and in all honesty, I think he's just as corrupt as Bush. I think he surrounded himself with people that only care about power and he's in his own way just another W.
As for "tea partiers" not all of us who believe in the principle of the idea, are "righties" or controlled by "right winged talking heads or media". Some of us have just had it and see that Obama and the Dems in power now are no different than what we had with W.
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I mean... Doesn't the outrage from the right seem a LITTLE suspect, given all this stuff that they COULD have been outraged about? Doesn't the timing seem a little bit, well, convenient? It's like, now that our guy is out, we're mad, and it looks best to be mad about everything government does, except that we were quiet little doormice while our guy was doing the worst raping of our precious "god damned piece of paper" that has ever been done by a president in the history of our nation. But no, let's make damn sure Americans keep paying the most and getting the least in terms of health care. That makes really good sense.
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OR maybe people expected "change" and a government that listened, because those were the campaign promises and they found that there was no "change" in how business was done. Different party, same game.
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For it to be consistent, people would have had to be as outraged about the supreme court appointing Bush in the first place, the USA Patriot Act, allowing New Orleans to drown, an illegal and immoral war against a country that couldn't hurt us that has cost $600 billion so far, $10 billion in cash vanishing in Iraq, sweetheart deals for Haliburton and energy companies, etc, etc, etc., as they are about a bill that attempts to make sure every American gets to see a doctor.
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I was just as outraged at these as I was the medical bill. And you can check my posting history on that. I was NEVER a Bush fan.
I find it funny that people can be outraged by what Bush did and yet, find no faults with what Obama is doing.
That's partisan hypocrisy.
In the end it has all come down to partisan politics and hate mongering. Dems are being blind to what Obama is doing and not speaking out with "outrage" to the things they KNOW are bad for this country and will haunt us in the future. They just don't care, because "it's better than Bush" and "he's doing the best he can with what was left him". EXCUSES. The man is not a good leader and the Dems wish to believe he is a "Great leader".
A great leader would find ways to bring the country together, not deepen the division, which is what he is doing.
I still maintain W was the beginning of the "Barrack Room" Emporers, Obama is just following the same path but under a different guise. BOTH in my view are equally as bad for this country. But for someone so far left Clinton was a "moderate", there is no Obama problem.