Why I am not Voting Obama

Obama is left of center, Obama is an anti-free market Marxists.

Saying that he is anything else is just another liberal lie.

He's to the right of David Cameron. Honest.

Pentagon wants $3 billion for the War in Iraq that we thought was over
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The American public has been told that the Iraq War is a thing of the past. Even still, the US Department of Defense is asking the federal government for almost $3 billion for “activities” in a country that they shouldn’t be in...

Obama lied again...

Love how they put the word 'ending' in quotation marks.

We have no way of knowing what our forces are doing overseas.

Honestly - have we ever?

Knowing is what turned public opinion against the Vietnam War. Which is a major reason we no longer are allowed to know.

That's not the only problem; generals always advocate for more wars, because that's how they earn their "stripes." How else can they make a name for themselves? Peace time is anathema to generals, and most presidents consult with "them" to get advise on how to prosecute wars. That's the reason why wars are always expanded and extended.

You are at least in part right, CI.

I think a cogent argument could be made that we have more capability than ever to be informed about things the government wants to keep covert. That's why they're so paranoid about things like wikileaks and Private Bradley Manning. Do you think we were supposed to find out about Abu Ghraib, or Black Water? I don't know; I just don't like sitting on my hands and wailing about being at the mercy of the big bad gubmint.

I'm not wailing. I am trying to convince people to vote the bastards out.

Leaving exactly what in their place, edgar? And I don't mean by and by, after the revolution when we can have all pure liberals in office. I mean now.

Posted elsewhere as well, but I think it might add to the conversation here.

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Finally, he reveals his present self:


Interesting.
When George W. Bush was President, he proposed, along with Cheney and the rest of the gang, that the answer for them was an Imperial Presidency which wouldn't pay all that much attention to those pawns over on the Hill or whoever was in that marble building with all the stairs, the ones wearing robes.

Now that he thinks he's got enough of all of those rubes, both Hill and Court, in his pocket, he can reverse himself and reveal who he thinks is running this Democratic Republic.

Himself.

Oh, and, of course, his 1% backers.

And if enough of us peons keep carping about the lack of perfection in this current administration's efforts, he might be right.

Joe(They will have bought us all)Nation

You people think I am insisting on all liberal, all the time. I don't give a **** whether liberals or real conservatives are in the driver's seat, so long as we get some equilibrium in all this mess. Stop allowing the 1% to control every move the government makes, for starters. Accountability for the guilty. A real jobs program for the workers. Accountability for all those trillions being spent on foreign adventures. Things so simple I shouldn't have to stand against both parties to suggest them.

Obama is talking about cutting defense, but the conservatives are saying "it's dead on arrival." What's dead is their brains, and they should be tossed out like so much garbage.

Interesting to note the suspicions & opposition expressed by posters here for "big" government actions in foreign policy, war and intervention, as contrasted with their enthusiasms for big government control and direction with respect to domestic policies affecting us all. The inconsistency is the same with conservatives who like big government in our external affairs, but who wish to be left alone on domestic matters. This should remind us all that we are very often inconsistent in the underlying values we express.

Edgar wants both "justice" impoosed on the "evil 1%" and a "jobs plan for workers". How do you do that? We are all workers, and someone has to create the jobs and earn the profits needed for the economic allocation of resources in an external world that is still competitive and eager to take our lunch.

If the 20th century has taught us anything it is that government managed economies are incapable of achieving economically efficient allocation of resources. Issues become politicized and politicians do what they must to hold on to power. That leads to situations like contemporary Greece or the failed Socialist states of Europe and Asia.

The difference is that the people who work the hardest only make 7 0r 8 dollars an hr while the people who set on their fat asses telling everyone else what a bunch of lazy bastards they are make hundreds of dollers an hour.

I don't see where edgar used the word "evil" in his reference to the 1%, george. Did he edit, or are you projecting?

Do you even have to ask??

Cycloptichorn