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What do you think about the decision to NOT VOTE for president?

JAG said:
Unfortunately, people let Romney's different religious views cloud their judgement (not all people, just the ones that refuse to learn about the other issues.) Personally, I would rather vote for a person that stuck by their religious beliefs (whether catholic, mormon, athiest, etc.) than someone who denounces their faith or the church they have been a member of for years because it would weaken their campaign. Romney knows his political views are unpopular but he has never turned his back on his beliefs to gain points in a poll (same can't be said for Mr. Obama)

I have also heard people say they don't like Romney because he has no personality. We aren't voting for prom king here. We want our president to be competent and have the ability to turn our country around. If you think that is Obama, then by all means vote for Obama, but not because he has a more personality...

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That is unfortunately why Mr. Obama is the president now. He was elected purely on emotion and hype.
 
I feel that Obama actually cares about the well being of America, and Americans in general.

I don`t feel that Romney actually cares about America, or average Americans in general.

The biggest gripes on Obama? That he`s a Socialist (false). That he`s gonna take away our guns (false). And for alot of white Southerns, that he`s black (part true). Fear has driven these people to hate Obama. And he was supposed to turn our economy around fast? No President could have fixed Bush`s destruction very fast. Jobs are growing, and the Ecomony is getting better - slowly. They say it has not been fast enough - but of course the Republicans will say this.
 
mtnbayou said:
I feel that Obama actually cares about the well being of America, and Americans in general.

I don`t feel that Romney actually cares about America, or average Americans in general.

The biggest gripes on Obama? That he`s a Socialist (false). That he`s gonna take away our guns (false). And for alot of white Southerns, that he`s black (part true). Fear has driven these people to hate Obama. And he was supposed to turn our economy around fast? No President could have fixed Bush`s destruction very fast. Jobs are growing, and the Ecomony is getting better - slowly. They say it has not been fast enough - but of course the Republicans will say this.
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This is one thing that annoys me. You could put any democrat in office and leave everythign else the same it is now and the remarks fromt he right would be the same. This is not some vendeta to get Obama personally.

Having said that, yes soem of the attacks they come up with are beyond idiocy. If you want to hammer him stick to pure policy and Obamas record.

Edit: If you feel Obama has your interests at heart more than ROmney than your choice is obvious. I feel that either one of them would sell me for a bag of chips.
 
Stoked said:
This is one thing that annoys me. You could put any democrat in office and leave everythign else the same it is now and the remarks fromt he right would be the same. This is not some vendeta to get Obama personally.
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I disagree. No one would be lynching chairs with American flags on the ropes, at the exsteme end.
 
One Brow said:
I disagree. No one would be lynching chairs with American flags on the ropes, at the exsteme end.
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So because of a few idiots the entire right are cupable? Bullcrap.

What about the comparisons of Bush to Hitler and the Nazis from the left when he was in office? Should we call the entire left anti-military and unpatriotic becasue a few morons yelled "baby killer" when some soldiers came home? No

So stop trying to compare the entire right or anyone that is agaisnt Obama as racist or that they hate him for being black.

If that is not what you are trying to get across than you need to clarify better.
 
Stoked said:
So because of a few idiots the entire right are cupable?
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Was there something about "on the extreme end" that made you think I was discussing the entire right in this country?

Hitler comparisons are rampant on both sides.

What I am saying is that this race is slightly more vitriolic because of Obama's skin color. On the extreme, you get symbols like the lynched chairs (I don't recall any comparable pictures of lynched saxophones or ketchup bottles). For people where the racial dislikes and prejudices are more deply buried, the expression of that extra vitriol is more subtle, but you'd have to be Pollyannish to believe it did not exist.
 
One Brow said:
Was there something about "on the extreme end" that made you think I was discussing the entire right in this country?

Hitler comparisons are rampant on both sides.

What I am saying is that this race is slightly more vitriolic because of Obama's skin color. On the extreme, you get symbols like the lynched chairs (I don't recall any comparable pictures of lynched saxophones or ketchup bottles). For people where the racial dislikes and prejudices are more deply buried, the expression of that extra vitriol is more subtle, but you'd have to be Pollyannish to believe it did not exist.
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Just GWB's head on a pike.
 
One Brow said:
What I am saying is that this race is slightly more vitriolic because of Obama's skin color. On the extreme, you get symbols like the lynched chairs (I don't recall any comparable pictures of lynched saxophones or ketchup bottles). For people where the racial dislikes and prejudices are more deply buried, the expression of that extra vitriol is more subtle, but you'd have to be Pollyannish to believe it did not exist.
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You'll never stop your racial demagoguery no matter how ridiculous but here is a lynching of Palin:

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Sirkickyass said:
The purposeful decision not to vote (as opposed to just not getting around to it or other forms of laziness) is functionally a vote of no confidence for our current form of government. At a minimum, if you do that I think you waive your right to paint other people as unpatriotic or unamerican in any fashion. After all, you just protested democracy as we know it.

This election season I'm voting; although largely turning out for Richard Carmona in a surprisingly close Senate race in Arizona. The Presidential numbers don't matter because a) Arizona is a lock for Romney and b) Obama's re-election at this point is all but a lock given recent polling numbers in Ohio. As a result I'm probably going to vote for Jill Stein for FEC purposes and also to brag to the Madame that I'm a bigger feminist than her, which will rankle her every single time I mention it. Which will be everyday.
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I like Jill Stein a great deal.
 
One Brow said:
It wasn't McCain being hung in effigy. Did you think I wouldn't call out misogyny just because Palin is a Republican?
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You don't until it is put under your nose. What you do do however is go on and on about racism. You turn topics about anything into a refferendum on how people are racist.
 
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