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Voter #63:

I do believe that any extreme is bad. Obama, in my opinion, will utilize ideas from both sides of the aisle.

Obama has the mask of a moderate; but is he truly such? He seems to have a history of gravitating toward those with extremist views. What in his public history indicates that he has ever “utilized ideas from both sides of the aisle”? His one or two examples of bipartisanship are shaky and based on fuzzy logic. Contrast that with McCain, who has a long paper trail of bipartisanship, often to the consternation of conservative Republicans. Obama’s voting “present” is not “coming to the center”. With his very, very, very liberal voting record, his idea of unity is this:

“I want everyone to unite — behind my values. I want everyone who disagrees with me to change the way they think so that we can all be united. I myself have no plans to change my positions on any important issues in order to achieve this unity. So in order to achieve it, I assume that all of you who differ with me will change your views and values and embrace mine.”

I don’t know who it was, but a conservative guest on a radio station described his meetings with Obama and said Obama seemed completely uninterested in his conservative ideas, despite Obama’s rhetoric about “coming together”. I think Obama’s already made up his mind that conservative ideas are wrong ideas, and would only feign interest, for appearance’s sake. I could be wrong, but where’s the evidence to speak to the contrary (I can think of one example you might bring up)?

We do need new, fresh ideas.

Does this include throwing the baby out with the bath water?

The changes Obama seems to advocate for would be hard to the left; and with Reid and Pelosi at his sides, they may do some irreparable harm.

Obama is the one of the two with those ideas, in my opinion.

Change is one thing; radical shift is quite another.

I also believe after he has been in office a little while, when people see he isn’t that bad, he will be able to bring our country back together.

Perhaps. And if he is “that bad”, then what?

In the last 8 years we have been terribly divided. Bush had an opportunity to unite us after 911,

I lay most of the blame squarely at the feet of those on your side. They have been completely deranged and out of bounds.

instead he says “keep shopping”.

Do you not understand the thought behind why he put that forth to the American public, at the time that he did? I know McCain pushes this criticism too, but it’s one of those hindsight critiques that forgets the state we were in at the time. In afterthought, yes, it would have probably been better to ask Americans to sacrifice more, and be involved more directly in the war we find ourselves in. But at the time, we needed to feel confident in ourselves and our way of life, to send a message to the terrorists that they did not take away our freedoms and cause us to cower in fear; it’s why when American airlines were back up in the skies, we were all encouraged to show our patriotism and fly as frequently as we could; it sent a message to those who attacked us, and it helped the economy and airlines that were struggling.

Had it been someone else, they would have seized the opportunity to unite us as a country.

The only options to possibly have done that would be Gore, or 4 years later, Kerry. How the devil would those two have “united us”, let alone create the tools (Patriot Act, NSA Surveillance, etc.) needed to protect us from the next terrorist attack?

The terrorists have suceeded in dividing us. Bush let it happen. Divide and conquer.

You can credit the terrorists if you’d like; they definitely deserve some of it. But don’t you dare lay this at the feet of President Bush. He has been at the center, reaching across party lines; it’s the Democrats who have spat at him, lied, distorted, maligned in hopes of regaining political power. When Pelosi and Democrats won House and Senate seats in 2006, how was Bush divisive? He was nothing short of gracious toward Pelosi. And how has Pelosi behaved? Nothing short of divisive. Just look at her recent speech in wake of the debate over the Rescue Bill, and how she politicized it, while denying all culpability when Democrats have had their fingerprints all over this economic mess.

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forget it i give up, what I am trying to say is your entire post proves my point.

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I didn’t do it right

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Aye Chihuahua:

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@voter:

The only person I have said was disrespectful in anyway shape or form was AYE, if you look back to all of his posts to me they have been nothing but antagonistic.

Oy! Here we go with the victimhood again.

I have called you out repeatedly on the false accusations. Not once have you responded with anything to support your claims.

Not once.

You claim that I have been “antagonistic”.

You claim that I have been “hateful”.

You’ve presented no proof. No evidence.

Not one single copy/paste, which is so simple even someone in their computer “infancy” can do it.

Zero. Zilch. Nada.

So, now that I’ve got that out of the way, let me say this to you:

You, madame, are a bald faced liar.

I’ve been temperate. I’ve been kind. I’ve challenged you to think, to research, to expand your mind beyond the 10 second sound bytes and snippets that you have picked up from the Internet.

I’ve encouraged you to dig yourself out of the sad, pathetic intellectual state in which you currently find yourself.

Instead of helping yourself out of the gutter, you respond with loads of poor, pitiful me victocrat mentality.

That’s OK though.

It is now a goal of mine to peg you to the wall each and every time you force out another piece of your inane, vapid dog squeeze and you can rest assured I always accomplish my goals.

You’re a mental midget amongst giants here. Post cautiously lest ye get squashed.

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