Well, for one thing, looking from outside the US it is painfully apparent that American politics is very partisan in nature. That tends to make politics very divisive, and disturbing from the point of view of most of the rest of the Western world - I can't think of many other places where politics is this polarizing. Obama is a perfect example aligned with the far side of one of the two parties, and that makes him a perfect target for the other side, so that's about it.

Frankly, I think the anti-Obama sentiment was a lot worse around election times.

Otherwise, eh, as much as I'm well over on the left side, I don't really approve of Obama and never was particularly optimistic for him. A lot of my American friends were excited for him winning, and I told them to wait a couple of years and see. Now a couple of years later, I'm content to have proven that Obama is both relatively weak in terms of his actual position and capacity to make positive change, while also pushing through a lot of his politics through means that don't exactly make him look good. Honestly, he's proven himself to be what I saw in him all along - a Chicago politician.

I certainly prefer him quite a bit to the Bush administration, but that's about the best I can say for him.

I do hope that the heat stops being aimed so much at his persona - a lot of things leveled against him by conservatives is just populist gobbledygook that only further serves to deepen partisan divisions and distract from real social and economic issues that neither side, so far, has shown any good potential to solve.

Rest assured!!

Take a look at the Beehive beauty shop :sunny:

(from 03:15 to 06:30)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Do0-fWVY9I

Well he's better then having McCain as president thats for sure, and he is definitely better then the very prospect of having that idiot Palin as president.

However... Republicans, Democrats, Liberals, Conservatives, moderates, radicals... they all suck.

Why is it that if one disagrees you are a Democrat or if you aren't a Republican you must be a Democrat. Rather narrow minded.

:yep:

In US presidential elections voters do only 2 things. They vote for the R or the D. Third party votes help one or the other if the state is in play---or do nothing at all otherwise.

I should add that I don't think that the right "hates" Obama nearly as much as the left hates Bush. In many cases the left seems to have been against hints solely to be contrarian. "we were for regime change before we were against it!"

I dislike Obama because I dislike most all his policy goals.

I disagree with Obama's policies. No hate or even dislike involved. I disagreed with Bush on Iraq and some other things. Same lack of animosity.

I notice that a large majority of the people who actively hated Bush were doing so long before he gave them a reason. Same with Obama. It's all politics and one-sided bigotry (and I'm talking political bigotry, no other).

It wasn't Republicans who put up the posters of Bush as Hitler. And that was all that August was referencing. It looked to me like he was speaking to the jackass politics of both sides.

So I'm a Democan or a Repocrat depending on which way I lean at the time?:)

That's what I'm talking about. So it must have been Democrats?

I posted this a long time ago, but I can't come up with anything better, so here it is again:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...ht=republicrat

Who else hated Bush that much? Libertarians?

Maybe the Librarians? :D

SHHHH!!!

How about Joe Blow off the street. What is it, less than 1/3 actually vote. The rest still have opinions.