reply to post by Unit541
Do I need someone else to point out whether his policies are working or not?
No, I don't believe I do, and because of that, I will not blindly accept your view: that those policies are simply "spend a sh*t ton' of your
money, and turn America into a socialist State.
Instead, I will choose to formulate my own opinions and further, because our society still honors the principle of free speech, I am entitled to
those opinions even when they disagree with yours. I have dedicated years of my life to ensure that you have that same right, even though I disagree
with you, it is not likely that you can say the same.
So, you are concerned that a politician in the United States would hide their past? How quaint. Your conservative idealism obviously blocks your
memory or you would see the irony in such a statement, but I won't bore you with history lessons.
Suffice it to say that the man has been vetted and has passed. Again, you may disagree with the determination of that process, or even the methods
used (as it is your right to disagree), but claiming that no "background check" has been given is not only ignorance, but it belies your true
motives, which are to undermine the man at all costs because you are not creative enough to enter into honest debate.
If you knew anything about me you would not so lightly dictate to me which subjects you believe I should bring up again. You'll quickly find I am
not so easily bullied as that, and as well read as any on this site or any other that you can name. If you wish to discuss what socialism or fascism
or really any other -ism consists of, then might I suggest you change your tone of superior intellect and approach me as an equal. You get more flies
with honey, no?
Of course the fact of what may be (or may not- as the case may be)socialism is not important to you though, is it? You have no time to be concerned
with facts, because you are oblivious to all but your own agenda. It may do much to inform you that I am, in fact, not an Obama supporter, so much as
a conservative Republican who is fed up with threads like this and posters like yourself giving the reasonable among us a bad name by acting like
spoiled children who call each other names when they do not get what they want. I did not vote for Obama, but the man is not a socialist, and until
true conservatives stand up to the bullies like yourself and put you in your rightful place on fringe of conservatism, we will never win another
election. Conservative intellectuals like Buckley are rolling in their graves right now.
You are right in one regard, the country is in dire straights and can nigh afford more divisiveness. But you may find, if you are intellectually
honest, that that burden lies squarely at the feet of the neo-cons and the all or nothing mentality that they have brought to conservatism. Your
world may be a place of absolutes, capitalism v socialism, good v. evil, black v. white; but, my friend, reality is much much more complex than that,
and much more beautiful to behold than you give it credit.