Those are the reasons I'd want Obama!! If elected, he'll actually believe his own platitudes, and waste at least his first year pushing for them. The GOP minority would have a FAR easier time opposing those bills in Congress, than opposing the less-obviously-far-Left bills that would be proposed and supported by Hillary and McCain. The mushy Dems, the non-Pelosi types, would be much more likely to be swayed by floods of phone calls and Limbaugh's spotlight, as they were in 1992-4 with HillaryCare, etc. Once the nation sees what a dangerous loon he is, we can have a Conservative Revolution (note: not a Republican Revolution as in 1994) in 2010, and get Congress back. Then he can propose all the inane bumper-sticker mentality ideas he wants. He won't get many significant ones passed, and, God willing, the GOP will get behind an actual Reaganesque limited-govermnent advocate in 2012.
Yes, I would much rather have an inexperienced socialist than a professional socialist any day.
Besides, whose face would you rather look at in the papers every day for the next 8 years? Do I even need to mention voice?
With a majority congress, he can do alot of damage to defense funding, far worse than Hillary. The President and whatever nincompoops he appoints to State will be the ones talking to other world leaders, and cooking up Lord knows what.
Don’t underestimate the damage he can do, and don’t overestimate the publics ability to see through him.
opposing bills? don’t you understand?
Just his mere arrival to the WH will embolden every terrorist group and make the world a much more dangerous place. They will cheer with glee that one of their own is in charge.
So, we have to be thrown to (almost) death first before things (hopefully) gets better? I don’t share that view. I prefer to avoid hit-the-bottom scenario. It’s just too risky, especially with SCOTUS is at stake and we’re at war against Islamofacist.
See, I think that's the problem. I haven't seen anything from our minority Congress yet that would make me think they would put any effort at all into blocking leftist bills. They are too busy trying to appear "bi-partisan" and "get along" with everyone. Even when they had the upper hand, they didn't know how to win.
I don't trust them to use procedural rules, filibusters, etc., to block the crap that would be coming our way. They have decided they are "above" all that and we would still lose. I haven't seen any truly effective leadership in the Republican party in years, and I doubt that Obama winning would suddenly change that.