Anonymous wrote:Paul Ryan's convention speech gave me this miserable gut feeling that they are ready to steal an election from an incumbent. Why would you fucking lie - not just spin, lie - so much unless it didn't really matter whether people trusted you?

Can you explain further? It's a little unclear, but sounds interesting.

Anonymous wrote:There is no left in mainstream US politics, it is all degrees of the right. Most conservative parties in Europe would be left of the Democratic party here. The right wing here is extreme right, and what few moderates there are left are getting squeezed out. It is all part of the process of the fall of the empire.

If I were some anti-US organization like al-Qaeda or the Taliban, or even Iran or Venezuela, I would put away the weapons and find ways to fund the Republican and Tea parties. They'll do the job for you in the long run, and far more effectively. Refer to to the Bush administration if in doubt; massive damage done that will last for decades.

Soooo true

Does your family live in Texas?

Paul Ryan's convention speech gave me this miserable gut feeling that they are ready to steal an election from an incumbent. Why would you fucking lie - not just spin, lie - so much unless it didn't really matter whether people trusted you?

Anonymous wrote:Spending time with family outside DC reminds me of how freaking ignorant most of America is.

Sigh...

sad but true.

this is the first time that I actually think there's a chance that the big lie, repeated over & over (or should I say "lies") may actually fool enough of the sheep in this country that a disgraceful pair of serial & intentional liars like Willard & Eddie Haskell could actually win.

Anonymous wrote:I come from what I always figured was a moderately liberal Christian family. we supported the civil rights movement, supported women's right and immigration. My family is still that way but my dad is considering voting for Romney this time around (he voted for Carter, Clinton, Mondale, Obama etc) because he feels that the leadership of the country is rudderless and this time around feels like Obama is divisive. Compared him to GW Bush. I think the Democrats need to swing back to the center after this second Obama term.

I think you're full of it, or at least relying on biased sources. Obama is pretty much a moderate Republican from twenty years ago. He - and this great nation - need to swing the pendulum back to the Progressive side of the aisle. Because for the last few decades the fob has been on the regressive/conservative side. How's life generally gotten for your average American? Better? More job security? Relative to what they're position would have paid back then, what do they earn now?

It's hard to steer a boat forward when the Republicans are all shoving their oars down on the right side of the boat while the Democrats try to paddle. How does anyone steer that ship? I'd really reconsider. Of course, with Romney there'd really be no rudder at all.

Anonymous wrote:Spending time with family outside DC reminds me of how freaking ignorant most of America is.

Sigh...

+1

Spending time with family outside DC reminds me of how freaking ignorant most of America is.

Sigh...

Agree with PPs. If Obama had followed a strict progressive agenda, we'd be in a much better place and he'd be headed for a landslide reelection. His mistake was thinking he could work with the lunatics on the right.

Anonymous wrote:Well, it was Bush's fault, and Obama has worked hard to address those issues, had some success and been stymied by the opposition. His mistake, honestly, was in collaborating at all, in being TOO centrist.

+1 (million)

Why even bother to work with those jackholes? They care only about their own political power, not the country as a whole. If they actually cared, they would do that thing that they now consider a dirty word - compromise.

Congress is such a joke.

There is no left in mainstream US politics, it is all degrees of the right. Most conservative parties in Europe would be left of the Democratic party here. The right wing here is extreme right, and what few moderates there are left are getting squeezed out. It is all part of the process of the fall of the empire.

If I were some anti-US organization like al-Qaeda or the Taliban, or even Iran or Venezuela, I would put away the weapons and find ways to fund the Republican and Tea parties. They'll do the job for you in the long run, and far more effectively. Refer to to the Bush administration if in doubt; massive damage done that will last for decades.

Well, it was Bush's fault, and Obama has worked hard to address those issues, had some success and been stymied by the opposition. His mistake, honestly, was in collaborating at all, in being TOO centrist.

Anonymous wrote:Another voter fooled by the GOP transfer of blame for gridlock.

But I thought Obama blamed Bush and then said he would change everything. Now it's blame on the GOP?

Another voter fooled by the GOP transfer of blame for gridlock.

I come from what I always figured was a moderately liberal Christian family. we supported the civil rights movement, supported women's right and immigration. My family is still that way but my dad is considering voting for Romney this time around (he voted for Carter, Clinton, Mondale, Obama etc) because he feels that the leadership of the country is rudderless and this time around feels like Obama is divisive. Compared him to GW Bush. I think the Democrats need to swing back to the center after this second Obama term.