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In reply to the discussion: K&R if you like Obama! [View all]saras
(6,670 posts)He's a politician. I have no expectation of ever liking him, or any other politician, and don't see why that has anything whatsoever to do with who I think might be an effective leader, what their values are, what their preferred techniques for achieving those values are, or hos competent and skilled at those techniques they are.
I don't like how he takes the corporate position on nearly every large-scale economic issue, he refuses to prosecute upper-class criminals, his views on security and privacy are fully fascist, and I especially don't like how so many Obamabots argue that race and gender issues are somehow more important, as if a sudden influx of gays and minorities into the 1% would change the values of the 1% and magically fix global warming
Is he better than a condom inflated with Santorum? Sure thing. He's a competent president, no matter how much I like or dislike him. The republicans haven't offered anyone competent since Richard Nixon. And they're worse than they're ever been.
But I'd rather live in a country governed by Santorum than a country full of mindless cheerleaders. Because a country governed by him can always throw him out. A country full of believers has no such hope.