A leftist joke I think!
You hardly needed to be a leftist to have problems with the Bush years! And you don't have to be a right winger to not be happy with the current administration, either.
That is true
I find it interesting that people on the right will say that "w" screwed up and tell you how they feel about his policies and mistakes, but lefties only seem to make fun of his "intelligence" and attack him on apersonal level. But Red, if you wanna turn it around and blame me that you outed yourself its ok!
I sure have seen plenty of hating on Obama for personal reasons as well, including lots of attacks on his intelligence. This thread is actually attacking his intelligence.
Outed? for what, not toeing the latest right-wing line? Fine, consider myself outed. I'm hardly a leftist, and certainly not a right-winger, either. All of this labeling and purging of the impure gets pretty tiresome from both "sides".
I like diesel engines, guns and red meat. I also like green tea and sushi, and know which fork to use for salad. I enjoy spending a day in the big city, hanging out at bookstores and buying organic produce. I fish and hunt, work on machinery, and own and operate a portable sawmill. I plant a few fruit trees every year on my land. I cut down alder trees for firewood and growing shiitake mushrooms. I build kayaks and lead kayaking eco-tours. I'm also in the middle of building myself a new gun for elk hunting next year. I have a forge and and anvil and know how to use them. I've logged with horses and raced stock cars. I'm pro gun AND pro choice. I vote for (or sometimes against) the candidate, not the party.
I hated Bush and Cheney, both for their abominable personalities, AND their terrible policies, including lying this country into a war that has been going on without an end in sight for almost 9 years now, burning up a million dollars of borrowed money every FIVE MINUTES. I hated their abrogation of the Constitution and their sleazy way of getting things done. So far, I am pretty disgusted with the Obama administration, too. I actually voted in the democratic primary, for the first time ever, as a way of making sure that Hillary did not get the nomination, primarily to keep her stupid insurance mandate from becoming part of any health care reform that might be in the offing if a dem won in November. So Obama goes and gives her a job and then incorporates the dang mandate anyway! The health care thing has been so badly handled, with bad policy and sleazy backroom dealing that I think the whole thing should be scrapped and started over on. The bank bailout was a disgusting sham of giant proportions, but I notice that very little gets said about it on these threads, maybe because it was put in motion by a republican administration, after the collapse happened on their watch, and no one wants to draw too much attention to that fact? I hate the fact that this country is in debt, primarily to China, on a scale that's never been seen before, but that did not all happen in the last twelve months. All this "socialism" that people are so bent about has been going on for years, decades even, and has been steadily expanded and pushed through by pretty much every administration, regardless of party. Until Obama came along, Bush held the record for biggest government growing. It looks like Obama is going to beat that with both hands tied behind his back, though.
What I've noticed about BOTH major parties is that they are each totally devoid of principles except the same one that they share: the desire to obtain and keep power. Nothing else matters and they will both do anything at all to further this one guiding principle. There's almost nothing in the way of doing business that the dems are doing now, that the repubs haven't done before, and won't do again when they are in power again. There is no solution to this problem, working with the two party scheme we are currently stuck with. Throwing out the dems and sticking repubs in there will not really change the underlying problems, just the tone and appearance.
I don't think Obama walks on water, and I don't think he is the devil incarnate, either. What I have noticed is that policy wise, he's changed very little about the trajectory that Bush was on. Still at war on two fronts, still running Guantanamo, still bailing out banks, still expanding the scope of government.
So I've got no use for the labels "leftist" or "right winger", or any of the associated divisiveness that comes from that. If I need to be a card-carrying, Republican, teabagging Palin groupie in order to post here, I guess I'd best be on my way...!
Sorry for the rant, I'm just mighty sick of people thinking that they can label and purge someone based on one or two statements on an internet forum. Bush couldn't speak his way out of a paper bag, and that's a fact. It's not a leftist fact, just a plain, ordinary non-partisan fact.
