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Originally Posted by rashi
Originally Posted by Essential1
Originally Posted by Bandit Country
Funny how these scumbag politicians agree on 90% of issues when it comes to.stripping away our civil liberties. With that in mind, I'm a "republican" because of cap and trade and gun rights. That's what it comes down to for my vote.
You do know Cap and Trade is a republican proposal in the 1980s & 1990s right? They were the ones who pushed it not the Democratic Party.
The paradigm of the politicians has moved right. Center Left by today's standards, was center right by 1994s standards..
I.e. Center Left of 1964 wouldn't be called a communist, they'd be run out of office "as a communist" in 2012...
And we could have a debate on gun rights for days, but the majority of Democrats are not trying to vanquish your Second Amendment to be honest, they won't even dance anywhere near that subject.... That is another example of the changing paradigm in DC. Soft gun laws are equated with Repealing the Second Amendment today.
Lets talk Civil Rights.
Bush signs PATRIOT ACT. Obama re-authorizes it. Bush tortures and indefinitely imprisons "enemies". Obama keeps GITMO open, on top of opening secret CIA gulags all over Europe. Obama signs NDAA in the middle of the night, AFTER the fact he promised to VETO. LIED. LIED. LIED. LIED. LIED. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned, tortured, being forced to be imprisoned naked, and these "compassionate liberals" remain SILENT. NOT. A. WORD.
HYPOCRITES. OBAMA = BUSH ON STEROIDS
I completely agree. Obama has been disappointing on a number of fronts for not being nearly progressive enough.
I'm glad we can agree on something...
But "Bush on steroids?"