That didn't last long.Follow

The far left is ******** that Obama is continuing Bush policies, so they might as well just have another Bush.

Compare Obama to Palin, however, and they shut up fast.

Obama's been in office for less than a year. It takes time to fix these problems. I mean, look at how long it took Bush to fix Iraq.

Eh, Ben Smith is usually pretty good. So is PPP for the most part. Of course, neither PPP nor Ben Smith is trying to make the point ThiefX is.

It's virtually guaranteed -- hell, strike "virtually" -- that the Democrats will lose seats in November. They picked up all the low hanging fruit in 2006 and then used the wave of Obama support to grab other seats in red districts in 2008. There's a reason why the Blue Dog coalition in the House is as large as it is: Democrats have picked up a significant number of "red" seats using centrist candidates. There just aren't any more spots left for them to make inroads until there's some demographic changes (age, race, education, whatever).

The only question is "how bad will it be". The point Smith was extrapolating form PPP's data is that the "Bush was bad" tagline isn't likely to be very effective. To be honest, the results themselves aren't very surprising, I bet they break down pretty solidly along partisan lines. There's also no threat to saying "Man, I wish we had Bush back!" if you're a Republican who wants to insult Obama since, whether you honestly want it or not, Bush ain't coming back.

If you read the PPP report, it says that 35% of (self reported) McCain voters and 5% of Obama voters think Obama should be impeached

Edited, Dec 10th 2009 1:02pm by Jophiel

According to the PPP data, of the 44% who said "Bush", 85% were McCain voters, 4% were Obama voters, and the rest voted for "Someone Else/Can't Remember" (6% of total respondents were "unsure").

If you can't remember who you voted for, you have bigger issues that if you want Bush back. However this poll hardly reflects some frantic scrambling away from "Liberalism" but rather how butthurt McCain voters can be.

Edited, Dec 10th 2009 1:13pm by Jophiel

"God I wish. Most of the professors are too big of pussies to teach socialism"

That's because socialism by itself, is wrong. Too bad they wouldn't see this and treat captialism the same. They should only be teaching a healthy blend.

Heh... I notice ThiefX's participation in this thread came to an abrupt end.

Countdown until he or Varrus is here saying "You just keep telling yourself it's going to be okay because you really know... DOOM!!!!"

Could be. I sort of doubt that's the case here, though.

That is inaccurate.

Not if you work fo a tobbacco company, armaments manufacturer, McDonalds etc etc.

And for the record, I know lots of people who don't have 'jobs' but contribute more to society in one week than ******* like thiefX contribute in their whole lives.

1) It's not
2) They do
3) They do

What part of "self-doubting idealistic and unpractical crazy-dude" don't you get about me?



One semester til some BA's, if all goes accordingly!

Then hopefully a sweet indentured servitude gig.



Edited, Dec 10th 2009 4:42pm by Pensive

Didn't feel like reading the rest of thread before replying?