Why should Obama be reelected?

daredelvis said:
Among many other things (some already listed), appointed reasonable moderates to the Supreme Court, and his reelection would prevent a 6-3 (or 6-2 if you ask Perry) right wing majority.
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The Supreme Court is my biggest reason. The court has moved steadily rightward with every recent nomination. Roberts, while a fine legal mind, is a corporatist through and through. I am fairly certain a President Romney would nominate another corporatist and I think that would be a disaster. One can barely imagine what a President Gingrich would come up with.

So Obama should be re-elected because he would keep from becoming way too conservative.
 
Obama is the only candidate running right now who knows how to conduct a successful military operation or to gather reliable intelligence, or to operate a social safety net to protect the victims of corporate excess. None of the republicons seem to care about people facing foreclosure, as long as the lenders are covered.

Mittens has even gone so far as to suggest that foreclosure should be accelerated so that investors can take over those properties and rent them out until the price of houses goes back up.

Obama is the only candidate running right now who does not want the working class to become peons.
 
Denver said:
And it will be interesting to see if the voters vote all their representatives out the next round, or just one party or the other, to address the obstructionist accusations.
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An awful lot of Tea Party types got elected the last cycle based on the notion that when the economy is bad you vote out who is there. Then people immediately saw the Tea Party types couldn't care less about the economy as they embarked on campaigns to impoverish teachers, screw over the poor and insert all sorts of religious idiocy into government.
 
Corsair 115 said:
The approval ratings for Congress would indicate otherwise.
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Not a meaningful measure. Half the country wishes the other half would see the genius of their own policy.

The only measure I would consider relevant is approval rating of individual congressman by their likely voters. If The dems in Bernie Sanders's district and the repubs in Rand Paul's are telling them to compromise, then we can say people truly want compromise.
 
Travis said:
An awful lot of Tea Party types got elected the last cycle based on the notion that when the economy is bad you vote out who is there. Then people immediately saw the Tea Party types couldn't care less about the economy as they embarked on campaigns to impoverish teachers, screw over the poor and insert all sorts of religious idiocy into government.
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You just described perfectly the enormous dump the Tea Party took on Florida by getting Rick Scott elected governor.
 
To borrow from Heinlein, it seems akin to a horse training policy where you shoot the horses that fails to make the jump until you find one that does.
 
Morrigan said:
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Morrigan said:
Edit: oh, you wrote "always". Hmm, maybe he doesn't, but based on my GIS he wears them damn often still. :D
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It's something I've noticed on occasion. Maybe he only abandons the tie at certain kinds of appearances, such as public forums. I guess it's to look more like an "average guy". I just hope it helps make general tie-wearing go away sooner than otherwise. Four more years!

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/obama_hates_neckties_america/
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-4764853-503544.html
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2009/08/why-doesnt-barack-obama-wear-a-tie/197363/
http://www.christianforums.com/t7534171/

Apparently Dubya did this, too, sometimes. Again, it's probably an attempt at "folksiness", for both of them.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2009/08/20/57068/bush-ties/


BobTheDonkey said:
I hope that the General Public realizes just how hamstrung they left Obama and gives him a Congress he can actually get **** done with.
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I know, right? Where is the tenderness?
 
An engineer I used to work with hated ties. He said the tie was a relic of Monarchy and indicated submission to the monarch who could have you hung at will. (This isn't true of course, but having been strangled by one for years it SOUNDS true.)
 
Now, to preface... I'm not a fan of Obama. He'll likely get my vote, this time, though, simply because I think that he's likely the best candidate of the candidates presented.

MaGZ said:
Obama will bend over and give the gays everything they want.
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Funny. If by "everything," you mean "everything that straight people take for granted and gay people don't get currently" you might have a point. Just try stripping straight people of the right to be honest in order to serve the country and see what the backlash would be like. Just try taking away marriage benefits in a heterosexual marriage and see what the backlash would be.

RandFan said:
(odd because as a former Mormon the last thing I wanted was a Mormon president)
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I'd think that you'd be more likely than many, just because you likely wouldn't hold any overwhelming religious bias against Mormons. Not particularly favorable, of course, but... Might just be me, though, when I think that.

JudeBrando said:
Because with all that faces this nation and this world, that's what really matters...
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Yes. It is something that really matters. It's far from everything, of course. The economy, for example. Too bad that this article sums up what I think of all the potential people for the next presidency.

Travis said:
An awful lot of Tea Party types got elected the last cycle based on the notion that when the economy is bad you vote out who is there. Then people immediately saw the Tea Party types couldn't care less about the economy as they embarked on campaigns to impoverish teachers, screw over the poor and insert all sorts of religious idiocy into government.
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As a person with an excellent friend who is also a Tea Party person, I'm just going to ask for links. I'm not questioning the statement, really, but... next time he brings them up, I wouldn't mind having some additional counters, even if it's a matter that I'm not all that worried about.
 
BobTheCoward said:
Not a meaningful measure. Half the country wishes the other half would see the genius of their own policy.
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The approval rating for Congress is about 9%, if I recall the more recent polling correctly. That means nine out of ten think Congress is failing.
 
pgwenthold said:
And how many of those critters will be re-elected?
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If you know of a place which keeps such statistics in a convenient form, then by all means please post a link to it as the data would be interesting. It would also be helpful to know the voter turnout rate in each individual Congressional district.
 
Which technically makes Congress now less popular than Communism.
 
Aridas said:
I'd think that you'd be more likely than many, just because you likely wouldn't hold any overwhelming religious bias against Mormons. Not particularly favorable, of course, but... Might just be me, though, when I think that.
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In all honesty I think the likelihood of Huntsman or Romney following their Mormon impertiaves over their oath in office to be slight. But make no mistake about it. Mormons swear and oath to god to put the Mormon Church above all other concerns. When Romney and Huntsman took that oath it was a blood oath. I know because I took it.
 
BobTheDonkey said:
I know this is a few pages back...but I just wanted to take a second to thank Lefty for this well rationed post. No sense of vitriol, nor foaming at the mouth rage involved. Just a well thought out, well stated response.

Thanks Lefty.
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Nothing like confirmation bias.
 
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