I'm an Obama supporter because the alternative is not an option....

[joshcryer]

27. I think you can consider his job excellent if you look at it a specific way.

Of course, this might be dismissed, but as a President Obama has been extremely consistent. This is a man who campaigned as a hawk against the Taliban, had massive liberal support (perhaps wearing rose colored glasses), who went on to actually go after the Taliban, and then gets shit for it from liberals.

In that vein, he's hardly an excellent liberal.

But as a President who campaigned and did what he said he'd do?

Unquestionably.

Being compelled to vote for the lesser of two evils is surely a horrible thing, but it's a necessity when you're a minority and you want other minorities to benefit from the relationship. Many who complain about this dynamic don't appreciate that many minorities in our society have, for a very long time, had to deal with the hand that the society has handed them. Look at payday loan sharks, the poor and downtrodden are not stupid, they know that the 300% interest on a loan is completely unfair and bullshit, but they have to go with it, because a bank or even a credit union is not going to give them the loan that they need to get their light bill paid or whatever. Now, this is actually a more evil, in this case, and it illustrates I think that while we complain about the lesser of evils dynamic, some people don't even have that choice. This is why I believe the "lesser of two evils" is itself intrinsically a privileged position to have.

I have no problem with that because as a "generic white male" as another poster put it (JoePhilly I think), I am privileged. I have no illusions about that. And it is a lesser of two evils vote for me. I've never had to contend with the bigger evil to get along in life.