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In reply to the discussion: Are those who defend President Obama's every single move, sincere? [View all]calimary
(81,220 posts)Glad you're here. Glad you posted this. It echoes my feelings exactly!!! Look, President Obama isn't perfect. I think that's WELL-ESTABLISHED by now, from any corner of the observing world. And he's shackled and hamstrung by enemies and idiots whose only reason for being is to keep him from carrying out his ideas (ideas which are many of our own, here, too).
Consider the alternative. Just imagine how things would be now - if it were President romney. Who would a President mccain have appointed to the Supreme Court when the vacancies came up in which we gained Sotomayor and Kagan? THEY wouldn't have had a prayer with him. We'd probably have another alito or thomas or scalia.
Affordable Care Act? Not if there was a President romney! It'd be GONE. Anything the knuckle-dragger majority House of Reps, including doing away with Roe v Wade and all remaining voting rights - would have sailed straight through and would have been signed into law by now, instead of us having a stop-gap in the White House who will veto such abominations if they ever get as far as his desk.
CONSIDER THE ALTERNATIVE.
And while so many are dumping on Obama and explaining the many ways rand paul is palatable, just stop and think what kind of regime we'd have if rand paul were President. DEAR GOD SPARE US!!!! President Obama isn't the best. And he isn't the best that we deserve. But he's LIGHTYEARS better than what the other guys have. And the problems AREN'T ALL WITH HIM. Give him a Congress that isn't dead-set against his every attempt even to breathe - and you'd probably find his presidency a lot more satisfying. I know I certainly would.