Quote from AAAintheBeltway:
I have talked to numerous people who could have written the OP. They typically are not very political and eagerly bought into the carefully constructed obama myth. The fact the republicans ran a sanctimonious jerk didn't help.
Obama's race was clearly the deciding factor for many if not most of these voters, even if it was unarticulated. Finally, they had the opportunity to bury the racial stereotypes and guilt and prove they could do the right thing.
Now it has all turned sour. Obama was probably the least qualified candidate in history, as well as the most radically leftwing. It has proved to be a toxic combination. He acts more like a dictator than a president. His wife seems to have used Imelda Marcos as a role model. If we are lucky and nothing more goes wrong in the middle east, his most significant accomplishment will be to have added a record sum to the national debt with nothing to show for it, other than a stagnant economy.
The assault on private enterprise, freedom and prosperity seems to go on daily. Now his radicalized EPA has announced a rule designed to address a non-problem, carbon emissions, that will triple the cost of electricity. Add that to record gasoline prices and you have a real gutshot to working people. Of course, obama doesn't really care. Like most leftists, he thinks americans live too big anyway. We have no business driving cars and living in big houses. Anyway, more economic misery might provide an opening for even more socialism.
For those of you with very short memories, let me provide a refresher. Obama did not run in a vacuum, he ran against a very particular person. Imagine what a "paradise" it would have been to have McCain as president. Let's input the ingredients:
Father&Grandfather full 4 star admirals, McCain graduates 5th from the bottom from Naval Academy. Has a penchant for drinking, crashing planes, womanizing in his youth. If you gonna hit Obama as an affirmative action candidate, which is what asking for his college records is, McCain is a backbencher academically. Plus, McCain had an entitlement attitude. Without his father&grandfather McCain could have been tossed from the navy instead of retiring at rank of captain (never even made into rear admiral lower half, what a shame)
By his own admission, John McCain did not understand economy as well as he should. His primary economics adviser Phill Gramm said the following in "JULY of 2008..." You've heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession... He also said "We have sort of become a nation of whiners. You just hear this constant whining". It is worth noting, that the republican party's current goldenboy Mitt Romney laughed at the idea of a recession in republican debates during that primary season of 2008. He basically said democrats were talking down the economy.
It is important to note that John McCain was a)old b) had bouts with skin cancer. Given those criteria, the selection of VP becomes important because the president may not finish his term. John McCain picked a brainless bimbo from backwater Alaska. Her ignorance was lampooned on saturday night live. The all time gotcha question was asking what kind of newspapers/magazines she read and she said all of them and could not even name one. Because of her MILF looks she did grab the attention of certain male members of society voting with their penises. If this woman was in charge of the free world, god save us all.
McCain's bad temper and his belligerent foreign policy prescriptions were also a cause of concern. McCain is always the first to demand US start bombing someone. Because McCain never made it into a flag officer position, he never understood the gravity of committing men and resources to a cause of dubious value. With John McCain in charge, we would have been at war with Iran by now.
Let's summarize. Obama ran against a miserable ignorant old man with a bimbo vice president. McCain would not have fixed the economy one bit and potentially gotten US into more worthless wars or even a nuclear confrontation with Russia/China.
I have never regretted my vote for Obama because I knew what I was voting for(for reasons aforementioned instead of hope&change). On this site over the years I have always maintained (you can look at my post history) that Obama stepped into an elevator shaft with no elevator and had a bigger chance of being the next Carter as opposed to FDR.
I am grateful I don't have to see Condi Rice's ugly face as secretary of state, or idiot Ashcroft's face period, or Cheney's talking from the corner of his mouth, or getting endlessly bombarded by terror threat level warnings etc.
