Tex said:
Who said I voted for him?
Nobody had to tell us - it's pretty clear from reading your posts that you share many of his philosophies. Are you trying to tell us that you
didn't vote for him?
And frankly, along with everything else, the above quote is really further evidence that you DID vote for him. Because most people would have taken that opportunity to deny voting for him instead of trying to be obtuse about it. In fact, I can't think of anyone who actually didn't vote for him who would have answered like you did instead of just flatly stating, "I didn't vote for him!"
And here's another observation of yours that makes it seem clear that you're on the Obama team:
I will say that I am not happy about the republicans blocking government just to make Obama look bad.
Well, guess what, Tex? Obama doesn't need the Republicans to make him look bad. He's proven himself to be very capable of doing that without any help from anyone. The only people spouting that whiny nonsense about Republicans blocking things just to make him look bad are the true Obama loyalists - along with the whiny Blamer-in-Chief himself.
Clear-thinking, objective, non-partisan people will remember that President Obama was given one of the longest and most expensive honeymoons ever. Republicans gave him everything he wanted for the first year or two of his administration - until it was clear that it wasn't going to work.
Now, Republicans are rightly listening to the wishes of their constituents and trying to reverse some of it. We could probably agree that it would have been good had they been true conservatives when President Bush was in office instead of acting like big-spending liberal Democrats.
However, with all of that said, I'll have to admit that one of your other statements on an earlier post on this thread makes me wonder how you could have voted for Barack Obama. So, maybe I'm mistaken and you didn't actually vote for him, after all. This is the statement I'm referring to:
You know, Texan, I don't think I have listened to one of his speeches. No political speech matters, what matters is what you actually do.
If "what matters is what you actually do," there's really no way that you could have voted for him, right? Because he didn't have any record to be judged on. At least, no record that would qualify him to be elected to the highest office in the country.
However, I do find it somewhat strange that you have never listened to one of his speeches.
Never? Wow...I bet you're one of the few people in the country who can say that.
I think a responsible voter should listen to the speeches of the major presidential candidates - not all of them, but at least a few of them. Even if you're sure that you're NOT going to vote for one of them, you should hear what they have to say.
And to not listen to your President? You've never listened to a State-of-the-Union speech? You didn't listen to his speech about killing bin Laden or his jobs speech last night? I even listened to those and there's not many people here who are more anti-Obama than I am.
Just like responsible voters should listen to the candidates, I think that responsible citizens should listen to their President. You don't have to listen to every one of his numerous speeches, but certainly there are times when we need to listen to our President.
So...if you actually have never listened to him speak, and since he didn't have a record to run on, maybe you really didn't vote for him after all. But, why don't you just come right out and tell us whether you did or not?
I don't mind admitting that I had to hold my nose and grit my teeth to vote for John McCain. Because I knew that the alternative would be just exactly what we've got now - a radical, big-government liberal community organizer who is determined to change this country in ways that are simply unacceptable to most of us. And it's almost unfathomable that some people elevated him to the position that is allowing him to do that.
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