Yes, I am so confused with the results of the 2012 Presidential Election. So many people talked about wanting change, and not the kind of change we have seen under Mr. Obama. So many people talked about their weariness at the deadlock between the White House and Congress. So many people complained about so many things. But the results of the election, if anything, indicate that people voted for the status quo, that is the SAME PRESIDENT and the SAME CONGRESS. For any real change to occur, something had to give, but it did not.
Logically speaking, the incumbent in almost any political office has the edge during elections. From county sheriffs serving five, ten, or more terms in office to senators dying before they retire, election after election shows that the man (or woman) IN OFFICE tends to stay in office, barring some truly outrageous misdeed or some particularly unpalatable misjudgment. Those of us who are "older" remember the day President Richard Nixon spoke to the nation on television with those now famous words, "I am NOT a CROOK!" Only days later he resigned rather than face impeachment and almost certain removal from office. After President Ford's "caretaker" administration, a man named Jimmy Carter was swept into office on a wave of popularity not quite as great as that of Obama, but still a wave. President Carter, however, was disgraced by his handling of the Iran Hostage Crisis in 1979. As a result, Ronald Reagan easily won the 1980 election. Carter served only one term.
In the Congressional elections, many officeholders were re-elected as well, again proving that the incumbent is usually the winner. Unfortunately, since we kept the same president and virtually the same Congress, there is little doubt that we are in for another four years of political deadlock at the national level.
I am confused, though, as to WHY we kept our current leader, President Obama. I get that many Democrats would vote for the Democratic presidential candidate, no matter WHO that person was, simply because the person was a Democrat. Voters in that category comprise a large segment of Obama's support. Another large block of Obama's support comes from Hispanic voters, who tend to vote for the Democratic candidate. Union members, young professionals, and liberals also tend to vote for the Democrat. What I am confused about is that so many people who fall into the above voting categories are also good, decent, law-abiding Americans who believe in the Constitution and the American way of life. I am absolutely BEWILDERED that these people, as intelligent as anyone, I am sure, were willing to re-elect Barack Hussein Obama! I did not particularly like any of the Democratic candidates, but almost any of them were more palatable than President Obama.
President Obama is the most UNPATRIOTIC person ever to hold that office. Although the media went out of its way not to portray this, President Obama was photographed on several occasions with his back turned to the flag as the Star Spangled Banner was played. Neither does Mr. Obama pledge his allegiance to this nation, to the people who elected him, now twice. In other words Mr. Obama has no respect for the very people who placed him in the highest office in the land!
President Obama has no respect for our Constitution, the law of the land. He has instructed the Justice Department to enforce laws differently, depending on who violates the law, and on whom is the victim. He has sanctioned the continued tyrannical authority of the Office of Homeland Security, particularly the Transportation Security Administration. Recently he sanctioned and supported the Attorney General in the failed Operation Fast and Furious, the "sting" operation that resulted in the deaths of at least two federal agents and an unknown number of Mexican police officers. President Obama continues to authorize, and indeed, to direct the use of aerial drones to kill US citizens who are not charged with any crime. This is the ultimate trampling of our Constitution. Yet the majority of American voters WANTED this man to serve ANOTHER term as our President!
President Obama has no respect for the American taxpayer. His administration oversaw the most massive misuse of tax dollars ever, in the bailout of the American banking industry. Bank administrators and CEOs kept their jobs after running their respective banks into the ground. Many of these same people received huge "bonuses" when they were forced to leave the banks. The housing industry collapsed along with the banks, forcing many Americans out of their new homes. President Obama further wasted tax dollars by funding questionable "green businesses" which then "failed." Once again, the executives of these businesses made out like bandits with their huge bonuses, but the tax dollars were lost forever. Again, THIS MAN is the one SO MANY AMERICANS RE-ELECTED?!
President Obama did not keep his promises regarding the "wars" going on in Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama the Candidate decried "Bush's War" and railed on about the lost lives of our young soldiers, not to mention the millions of dollars these wars cost the American people every day! Shortly after assuming the presidency, Mr. Obama informed us that he had reconsidered these matters and that the "War On Terror" must continue, apparently for at least the duration of his first term in office. Four years later we are still fighting in those two nations and no end is in sight. Not only that, but no tangible gains have been made in the "War On Terror." Yet here it is, 2012, Saddam is dead, Osama is dead, but the war goes on. But we must really WANT President Obama to serve another term, BECAUSE HE IS OUR PRESIDENT AGAIN!
Speaking of soldiers, lest we forget, Mr. Obama himself led a great crusade...a crusade to deny our soldiers fighting overseas the RIGHT TO VOTE! But Mr. Obama was re-elected.
Like I said, the re-election of President Barack Hussein Obama is nothing less than confusing to me. While I am as tired as anyone of the stalemate between the President and Congress, I had strong hope that we would have a new President, one that could work with the present Congress. But more important, I had extremely high hopes most Americans would have by now realized that our President was so wasteful with our tax dollars, so disdainful of the American people, and most of all, so UNPATRIOTIC towards this nation, that they would not even THINK of putting him back in that most powerful office. I was so wrong, and now I am so CONFUSED. I am still stunned that so many supposedly reasonable and supposedly informed Americans chose to reward this tax-squandering, constitution-bashing, murderer with a second term as President of this great (but confusing) nation of ours!
Logically speaking, the incumbent in almost any political office has the edge during elections. From county sheriffs serving five, ten, or more terms in office to senators dying before they retire, election after election shows that the man (or woman) IN OFFICE tends to stay in office, barring some truly outrageous misdeed or some particularly unpalatable misjudgment. Those of us who are "older" remember the day President Richard Nixon spoke to the nation on television with those now famous words, "I am NOT a CROOK!" Only days later he resigned rather than face impeachment and almost certain removal from office. After President Ford's "caretaker" administration, a man named Jimmy Carter was swept into office on a wave of popularity not quite as great as that of Obama, but still a wave. President Carter, however, was disgraced by his handling of the Iran Hostage Crisis in 1979. As a result, Ronald Reagan easily won the 1980 election. Carter served only one term.
In the Congressional elections, many officeholders were re-elected as well, again proving that the incumbent is usually the winner. Unfortunately, since we kept the same president and virtually the same Congress, there is little doubt that we are in for another four years of political deadlock at the national level.
I am confused, though, as to WHY we kept our current leader, President Obama. I get that many Democrats would vote for the Democratic presidential candidate, no matter WHO that person was, simply because the person was a Democrat. Voters in that category comprise a large segment of Obama's support. Another large block of Obama's support comes from Hispanic voters, who tend to vote for the Democratic candidate. Union members, young professionals, and liberals also tend to vote for the Democrat. What I am confused about is that so many people who fall into the above voting categories are also good, decent, law-abiding Americans who believe in the Constitution and the American way of life. I am absolutely BEWILDERED that these people, as intelligent as anyone, I am sure, were willing to re-elect Barack Hussein Obama! I did not particularly like any of the Democratic candidates, but almost any of them were more palatable than President Obama.
President Obama is the most UNPATRIOTIC person ever to hold that office. Although the media went out of its way not to portray this, President Obama was photographed on several occasions with his back turned to the flag as the Star Spangled Banner was played. Neither does Mr. Obama pledge his allegiance to this nation, to the people who elected him, now twice. In other words Mr. Obama has no respect for the very people who placed him in the highest office in the land!
President Obama has no respect for our Constitution, the law of the land. He has instructed the Justice Department to enforce laws differently, depending on who violates the law, and on whom is the victim. He has sanctioned the continued tyrannical authority of the Office of Homeland Security, particularly the Transportation Security Administration. Recently he sanctioned and supported the Attorney General in the failed Operation Fast and Furious, the "sting" operation that resulted in the deaths of at least two federal agents and an unknown number of Mexican police officers. President Obama continues to authorize, and indeed, to direct the use of aerial drones to kill US citizens who are not charged with any crime. This is the ultimate trampling of our Constitution. Yet the majority of American voters WANTED this man to serve ANOTHER term as our President!
President Obama has no respect for the American taxpayer. His administration oversaw the most massive misuse of tax dollars ever, in the bailout of the American banking industry. Bank administrators and CEOs kept their jobs after running their respective banks into the ground. Many of these same people received huge "bonuses" when they were forced to leave the banks. The housing industry collapsed along with the banks, forcing many Americans out of their new homes. President Obama further wasted tax dollars by funding questionable "green businesses" which then "failed." Once again, the executives of these businesses made out like bandits with their huge bonuses, but the tax dollars were lost forever. Again, THIS MAN is the one SO MANY AMERICANS RE-ELECTED?!
President Obama did not keep his promises regarding the "wars" going on in Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama the Candidate decried "Bush's War" and railed on about the lost lives of our young soldiers, not to mention the millions of dollars these wars cost the American people every day! Shortly after assuming the presidency, Mr. Obama informed us that he had reconsidered these matters and that the "War On Terror" must continue, apparently for at least the duration of his first term in office. Four years later we are still fighting in those two nations and no end is in sight. Not only that, but no tangible gains have been made in the "War On Terror." Yet here it is, 2012, Saddam is dead, Osama is dead, but the war goes on. But we must really WANT President Obama to serve another term, BECAUSE HE IS OUR PRESIDENT AGAIN!
Speaking of soldiers, lest we forget, Mr. Obama himself led a great crusade...a crusade to deny our soldiers fighting overseas the RIGHT TO VOTE! But Mr. Obama was re-elected.
Like I said, the re-election of President Barack Hussein Obama is nothing less than confusing to me. While I am as tired as anyone of the stalemate between the President and Congress, I had strong hope that we would have a new President, one that could work with the present Congress. But more important, I had extremely high hopes most Americans would have by now realized that our President was so wasteful with our tax dollars, so disdainful of the American people, and most of all, so UNPATRIOTIC towards this nation, that they would not even THINK of putting him back in that most powerful office. I was so wrong, and now I am so CONFUSED. I am still stunned that so many supposedly reasonable and supposedly informed Americans chose to reward this tax-squandering, constitution-bashing, murderer with a second term as President of this great (but confusing) nation of ours!
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