Posted on 08/19/2012 7:06:50 PM PDT by grundle
What a depressing choice the American people are being presented with this year. We are at a point in our history where we desperately need a change of direction in the White House, and we are guaranteed that we are not going to get it. The Democrats are running the worst president in American history, and the Republicans are running a guy who is almost a carbon copy of him.
The fact that about half the country is still supporting Barack Obama shows how incredibly stupid and corrupt the American people have become. No American should have ever cast a single vote for Barack Obama for any political office under any circumstances.
Obama should never have even been the assistant superintendent in charge of janitorial supplies, much less the president of the United States.
The truth is that Barack Obama has done such a horrible job that he should immediately resign along with his entire cabinet. But instead of giving us a clear choice, the Republicans nominated the Republican that was running that was most similar to Barack Obama. In fact, I don't think we have ever had two candidates for president that are so similar. Yes, there are a few minor differences between them, but the truth is that we are heading into Obama's second term no matter which one of them gets elected. The mainstream media makes it sound like Obama and Romney are bitter ideological rivals but that is a giant lie. Yeah, they are slinging lots of mud at each other, but they both play for the same team and the losers are going to be the American people.
Republicans are being told that they have "no choice" but to vote for Romney because otherwise they will get another four years of Obama.
This "lesser of two evils" theme comes out every four years. We are told that we "must" vote for a horrible candidate because the other guy is even worse.
Well, millions of Americans are getting sick of this routine. Perhaps that is why it is being projected that as many as 90 million Americans of voting age will not vote this year.
Yes, Barack Obama has been so horrible as president that it is hard to put it into words.
But Mitt Romney would be just like Barack Obama.
Those that are dreaming of a major change in direction if Romney is elected are going to be bitterly, bitterly disappointed.
The following are 40 ways that Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are essentially the same candidate....
1. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both supported TARP.
2. Mitt Romney supported Barack Obama's "economic stimulus" packages.
3. Mitt Romney says that Barack Obama's bailout of the auto industry was actually his idea.
4. Neither candidate supports immediately balancing the federal budget.
5. They both believe in big government and they both have a track record of being big spenders while in office.
6. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both fully support the Federal Reserve.
7. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are both on record as saying that the president should not question the "independence" of the Federal Reserve.
8. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have both said that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke did a good job during the last financial crisis.
9. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both felt that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke deserved to be renominated to a second term.
10. Both candidates oppose a full audit of the Federal Reserve.
11. Both candidates are on record as saying that U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has done a good job.
12. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have both been big promoters of universal health care.
13. Mitt Romney was the one who developed the plan that Obamacare was later based upon.
14. Wall Street absolutely showers both candidates with campaign contributions.
15. Neither candidate wants to eliminate the income tax or the IRS.
16. Both candidates want to keep personal income tax rates at the exact same levels for the vast majority of Americans.
17. Both candidates are "open" to the idea of imposing a Value Added Tax on the American people.
18. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both believe that the TSA is doing a great job.
19. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both supported the NDAA.
20. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both supported the renewal of the USA PATRIOT Act.
21. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both believe that the federal government should be able to indefinitely detain American citizens that are considered to be terrorists.
22. Both candidates believe that American citizens suspected of being terrorists can be killed by the president without a trial.
23. Barack Obama has not closed Guantanamo Bay like he promised to do, and Mitt Romney actually wants to double the number of prisoners held there.
24. Both candidates support the practice of "extraordinary rendition".
25. They both support the job-killing "free trade" agenda of the global elite.
26. They both accuse each other of shipping jobs out of the country and both of them are right.
27. Both candidates are extremely soft on illegal immigration.
28. Neither candidate has any military experience. This is the first time that this has happened in a U.S. election since 1944.
29. Both candidates earned a degree from Harvard University.
30. They both believe in the theory of man-made global warming.
31. Mitt Romney has said that he will support a "cap and trade" carbon tax scheme (like the one Barack Obama wants) as long as the entire globe goes along with it.
32. Both candidates have a very long record of supporting strict gun control measures.
33. Both candidates have been pro-abortion most of their careers. Mitt Romney's "conversion" to the pro-life cause has been questioned by many. In fact, Mitt Romney has made millions on Bain Capital's investment in a company called "Stericycle" that incinerates aborted babies collected from family planning clinics.
34. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both believe that the Boy Scout ban on openly gay troop leaders is wrong.
35. They both believe that a "two state solution" will bring lasting peace between the Palestinians and Israel.
36. Both candidates have a history of nominating extremely liberal judges.
37. Like Barack Obama, Mitt Romney also plans to add "signing statements" to bills when he signs them into law.
38. They both have a horrible record when it comes to job creation.
39. Both candidates believe that the president has the power to take the country to war without getting the approval of the U.S. Congress.
40. Both candidates plan to continue running up more government debt even though the U.S. government is already 16 trillion dollars in debt.
Meaning you’ve never been to Massachusetts.
And exactly how would he go about overturning it?
So who are you voting for?? Alex Jones?
Romney wasn't my 1st, 2nd, or 3rd choice but not voting for him is ensuring another 4 years of Zer0 and very likely the demise of the U.S.
In 4 years of Obama there will be a majority of voters on the Fed. dole.
The socialist agenda will be perpetuated until the Country goes bankrupt. (May not even get to 2016 at the rate we're going)
The author is exactly right. I wrote much the same thing earlier this year.
For at least the last 60 years there hasn’t been a dimes worth of difference between a democrat administration and a republican administration. Over the last 60 years, the republicans have owned the presidency 60% of the time and yet the size of government has grown steadily under democrats and republicans. In fact, some of the most egregious progressive legislation has been signed by republican presidents.
Earlier this year I wrote that the only slight advantage the republicans might have is in the selection of supreme court justices. But I also wrote that the proof would be in the supreme court decision on Obamacare. Well, we all know how that turned out, don’t we.
It’s not about whether Obama is a marxist jackass (he is) or whether Romney is a deceitful RINO (he is). It’s about the obvious fact that they both have the same owners. There just won’t be any significant difference between four more years of Obama or four years of Romney.
If you think otherwise, you’re just fooling yourself.
They are BOTH partners of Soros.
Here’s an interesting take on their virtual interchangeability...
http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2012/08/faust-2012.html
When presented with two equally bad candidates, the goal is to ensure neither one gets a second term. Constant turnover of bad presidents is better than a line of two term bad presidents.
News Flash for you:
Obama the capitalism-hating, liberty-hating, America-hating Marxist must be destroyed!!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2920626/posts
I know how excited that must make you, but if you are really reading that thread,then you should have seen my posts.
Someone brought that thread to my attention at about 12:30. If you have the time to go thru 500 posts, be my guest. I have a life, believe it or not.
Sounds like a personal problem, you didn’t really need to describe to me.
Read whatever threads you want to, you don’t need to ping me to them, and then ping me again to tell me that you aren’t reading them.
Read whatever threads you want to, you don’t need to ping me to them, and then ping me again, and again, to tell me that you aren’t reading them.
Obama is not planning to highlight his cult religion at his party's convention.
I counter your trump and raise you lost souls.
I’m voting third party. I’m voting for Virgil Goode. And yes, I know he’s a former democrat. So what, Romney still is one.
My understanding is that the legislature did not rewrite the law. The legislature let the 180 days go by. And without a law on the books to enforce, Romney violated existing law, put his power of check and balances squarely behind the judiciary instead of the legislative and personally ushered in gay marriage.
Romney did more for gay marriage nationwide as governor of Mass than Obama has done as President.
I don’t think we are going to have to worry about whether Romney will be worse than Obama. Romney is planning to try to portray Mormonism as a strength at the convention.
I hope your steamy bigotry keeps you warm. You are completely out of meaningful things to say but you keep talking. Your efforts will, if successful, re-elect the worst president in history and possibly destroy the republic. find a way to feel good about that
Evaluating a candidate on their beliefs and values and role model potential is hardly “bigotry”.
There’s no point in electing an equally bad candidate just to avoid re-electing a bad one. You are being played. The queers and the liberals have managed to orchestrate this election so that they win with either candidate.
If Romney wins it will be 8 years before the GOP runs someone different. If Obama wins, it will be 4 years.
Evaluating a candidate on their beliefs and values and role model potential is hardly “bigotry”.
There’s no point in electing an equally bad candidate just to avoid re-electing a bad one. You are being played. The queers and the liberals have managed to orchestrate this election so that they win with either candidate.
If Romney wins it will be 8 years before the GOP runs someone different. If Obama wins, it will be 4 years.
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