Reply #86: The point is that folks here are looking for a leader to vote for that is not Obama......

[FrenchieCat]

why should those who support Barack Obama have to STFU about how they feel about that?

Doesn't stop anyone from doing what they want....especially if they are passionate about it.

I think that any community has the right to speak out in what the believe they are observing.
Here we hear endlessly how Gays won't support the president because he has yet to get
DADT repealed. We are also hearing from the Democratic Socialists who think Obama
is just like a Republican. So this is just more of that, but just coming from a different
place.

Guess if we are "supposed" to be Liberals, we will do what Liberals do; have an open mind,
and at some point decide if we want to bring the Democratic party down, and start over again,
or if we want to continue with the progress that has been made to date.

What I will say is that Obama told each and everyone of us what he was about, and so
surprise or disappointment are not really good excuses as claimed by folks currently sniffing
in other political corners.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=258x10881

If the GOP win due to this, well, folks will just have to bite the bullet...but at least then
we will be united again in complaining about EVERYTHING ALL OF THE TIME, without a single chance of anything getting better....and of course, this time, Republicans will make sure they keep the power forever, so goodbye Internet!

Once their bed is made, everyone will have to lay in it, and most likely go to sleep till
revolution time, whenever that will be! Yeah!

I will say this, African-American are pretty used to doing without.......
That pretty much what we've always done for some time.

And by the same token, I'm sure that Green/Naderites/Socialist/Arnachist are used to it as well.

so it looks like things are even, and what folks in the Democratic party are interested less
about the well being of individuals who can't fend for themselves (as they claim is their priority),
and more about retribution, revenge, and victimhood on all sides (which is a trait shared with Republican!) That's a pretty sorry type of a party to have, and it's shown its ass quite clearly for the past two years.

Sometimes when folks believe they should get everything, they end up with less than nothing.
As long as they can live with it, so it goes.

I'm sure that's this kind of thinking got us Reagan instead of Carter,
and Bush instead of Gore. We think things will change drastically only if......
It's plain to me that voting (or not) in a way only to teach others a lesson simply never
amounts to anything gained....other than a perverted satisfaction that has little to do with policy, and everything to do with a true lack of caring about our society in general for whatever the reason.

The thing about many Black folks, is that those new voters have not been "into" politics long, so for them, they can take it or leave it much easier than those who have followed politics closely for along time......so it's easier for me to look in disgust at those who understand politics well enough, and yet still prefer the satisfaction of the big pay back.