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aquart

(69,014 posts)
Tue Mar 27, 2012, 06:40 PM Mar 2012

"I'm not voting for Obama. He didn't do enough."

Some poor fool said this to my mom in the supermarket today.

So she said (no idea why) "I'm voting for Santorum." (Never, not ever.)

He said, "Well, I think I'm voting for Romney."

"Romney! Who wants to put women back at the sink!? We fought for everything we wanted and we're still fighting. I'm ninety and I've learned a few things. Pity you haven't."

"You're ninety?" (Her favorite question.)

"You're acting like a spoiled little boy. You didn't get every toy you wanted so now you have a tantrum? At the self-service checkout, no less? You know that is costing someone a job?"

"Well..."

"That's what Romney is good at: firing people!"

That's as much as I could reconstruct. Mom had a great day and is having a nap now.

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"I'm not voting for Obama. He didn't do enough." (Original Post) aquart Mar 2012 OP
Allow me to finish his quote: Jamaal510 Mar 2012 #1
Funny DonCoquixote Mar 2012 #2
"he didn't do enough" at least implies he did something Papagoose Mar 2012 #3
Not in their "reality" anyway. Proud Liberal Dem Mar 2012 #12
He could never "do enough" to please these people. louis-t Mar 2012 #4
He didn't 'do enough' of what *I* wanted him to do LastLiberal in PalmSprings Mar 2012 #5
"Whaaaaaaaaaaaaa! I wanted him to wave a magic wand!" fightforfreedom123 Mar 2012 #6
The loser was probably never an Obama supporter anyway!! Obamacare Mar 2012 #7
It was a guy. aquart Mar 2012 #10
ahhh crap Broderick Mar 2012 #8
Au contraire...He did SO much! lemuriancandidate Mar 2012 #9
Voting for Republican candidates Proud Liberal Dem Mar 2012 #11

Jamaal510

(10,893 posts)
1. Allow me to finish his quote:
Tue Mar 27, 2012, 07:12 PM
Mar 2012

"I'm not voting for Obama. He didn't do enough...so instead, I plan on voting for a guy who will do even less and plans to pull a Reverse-Robin hood on the working class."

Papagoose

(428 posts)
3. "he didn't do enough" at least implies he did something
Tue Mar 27, 2012, 07:38 PM
Mar 2012

I work in an office full of people who insist the President has accomplished NOTHING.

louis-t

(23,292 posts)
4. He could never "do enough" to please these people.
Tue Mar 27, 2012, 07:45 PM
Mar 2012

And no amount of proof of his birthplace will EVER be enough for these morons.

5. He didn't 'do enough' of what *I* wanted him to do
Tue Mar 27, 2012, 08:38 PM
Mar 2012

Like:

Privatize Medicare and Social Security (except for the parts the government should keep their hands off of, of course)
Go back to the Constitution (even though I don't know what that means)
Bomb Iran
Never leave Iraq
Never leave Afghanistan
Kick the homosexuals out of the military
Drill, baby, drill!
Kick Mexicans out of our country
Kick Muslims out of our country
Kick non-Christians out of our country
Appoint Scalia-clones to the Supreme Court
Appoint Scalia-clones to the Federal courts
Eliminate the national debt by eliminating entitlements
Eliminate the national debt by selling public lands at fire-sale prices
Eliminate all taxes on "job creators" (i.e., the top 1%)
Eliminate the EPA
Eliminate the Department of Education
Eliminate OSHA
Eliminate the minimum wage
Get rid of public education
Make people quit annoying me with their noisy protests

and most of all, he didn't do enough of what I wanted him to do because:

He's a black Muslim who is living in our White House, and he won't move out.

 

Obamacare

(277 posts)
7. The loser was probably never an Obama supporter anyway!!
Wed Mar 28, 2012, 01:58 AM
Mar 2012

Thank God most women voters don't think the way she does!!

Broderick

(4,578 posts)
8. ahhh crap
Wed Mar 28, 2012, 02:42 AM
Mar 2012

I never have anyone talk to me in the supermarket. Except a cashier here and there. Mainly they just ask how I am doing in a way not expecting an answer (polite gesture I guess), or are you paying with debit, credit or cash? I have been asked do you have your MVP card, but usually I avoid that question by handing that in advance as they scan my goods. Sigh. Maybe it's that fierce frown, the squint in my eyes, or the rumpled clothing below my unshaven face. Maybe it's the lack of socks in hot weather. Who knows. But seriously, I have never had any political conversation in a supermarket ever. NOW, I can say, I have had political conversation in a meat market so to speak. That's a wholly different thing though.

Proud Liberal Dem

(24,412 posts)
11. Voting for Republican candidates
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 11:52 AM
Mar 2012

is pointless IMHO.

Anybody genuinely upset that President Obama didn't "do enough" really hasn't been paying attention and, to the extent that he's failed to get one thing or another done, they might want to check out exactly what has been going on in the Senate (and since 2011 the House).

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