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.
Besides, it’s not like I ever advocated for Romney to play up his weird cult religion. The brilliant GOP candidate came up with that strategy all on his own. Just a taste of what you can expect for 4 years if Romney wins.
Your choice this time is between Mao and Hubert
Humphrey. Take your choice. If you can’t see the difference, that’s a defect in you.
Which one is Humphrey?
The patriot
The patriot? I’d vote for Mel Gibson over either of those other two, but he’s not running.
If I were to decide my vote on the basis of theology, I’m not sure the theology of Rev. James Wright would be superior to the theology of Brigham Young. That’s your call.
My call is to vote for neither.
I’ve never seen Mormons fly a plane into a building. I’ve never been wronged or threatened by Mormons. No Mormon ever asked me to accommodate them unreasonably and the few times I’ve been to SLC I’ve found it to be a neat, clean safe city.
I’ve been wronged by Mormons. I don’t think they are any better than anyone else. But they do smile when they are stabbing you in the back.
Mormons had a history of violence. The U.S. had to send the Calvary to Utah to protect wagon trains from the Mormons. They no longer have violence emanating from the top levels, but the state of Utah ranks average on violent crimes.
And the leading candidate for President is the father of Obamacare and the father of Gay Marriage. Etch-a-sketch is a democrat running as a Republican. So you have been wronged by Mormons, you just didn’t connect the dots.
Oh, please. Have you never read the history of Europe? If you took out Religious wars there would be almost no story to tell. If it weren’t for religious persecution the pilgrims wouldn’t have come here. The history of conventional Christianity contains lots more violence than the history of Mormonism.
Christianity is 2000 years old. If you know the history of Europe, you know the crusades were started by Islam, not Christians.
Mormonism is less than 200 years old. A much higher percent of Mormon history is filled with violence than Christian history. List of Mormon wars and massacres
I didn’t mention the crusades because they were minor compared the religious wars just between “Christian” nations. Add the Inquisition and the other niceties like the pogroms against the Jews and the Mormons come off pretty well by comparison. Recognize too that much of the fighting, even arguably the Mountain Meadow Massacre, was at least in part defensive; a lot of “Christians” were intent in exterminating them.
Again 2000 years of history and most of the western world. The Inquisition was 1 country, and was initiated by the state, the RC church actually intervened to limit the abuses. When you look at Christianity vs Mormonism with the perspective of time and territory, Mormonism has a terrible history.
But what is relevant in this election is that Mr. Etch-a-sketch fathered Obamacare, taxed gun owners, and fathered gay marriage. His father said that we should listen to Alinsky. The family of this person, you seem to think is a patriot, fled America so they could practice polygamy.
I’m not voting for him. I think he was brought to us by the same powers that brought us Obama. This election is rigged. The socialists are going to win no matter which candidate wins.
I’m going to vote third party, in hopes that a third party gets enough momentum to make a real difference in future elections.
Again defensive vs. offensive. Again the centuries long efforts to suppress and even exterminate the Jews all over Christian Europe. Yes the Christian history spans 2000 years vs. 200 for Mormons but the last half of that for the Mormons has been essentially peaceful; it’s not possible to find 1000 years of peace in Christian Europe. It would be difficult to find 100 all together.
Vote as you like. If it doesn’t bother you to take your ball and go home, it certainly doesn’t bother me
You’re arguments are no longer relevant to this thread. And you are clearly antagonistic to Christianity. You’re view of World History is warped.
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