Quote Originally Posted by PanzerJaeger View Post
This is the second one of your posts today that seems like it is directed toward one of my posts but is just vague enough to make me cautious about responding.
Tbh it is directed towards your posts. I guess I should stop pussy footing around. Here is my problem with what you are saying PJ, you seem to have transitioned from a cautious, principled conservative to a typical team-playing reactionary when I read your latest posts.

I'm not the biggest fan of Obama, and I'm not going to be the one who tries to defend him as the guy you really should be voting for. But you seem to be ignoring what I feel are just the reality of the situation:

A. The economy of the US is not falling, it's not rising at any reasonable rate to anyone's liking but it's not in a downward spiral like under Carter. Tbh, you know as much as I do how little control the president has over the economy, especially when
1. Congress is ultimately in charge of the purse strings, half of it is controlled by GOP.
2. We ain't the only ones with problems. China can't keep projecting super growth forever when it is obvious how shallow and fake a large portion of it is. Add to that the dicking around that Greece, Spain and Italy are doing in the Eurozone and I am at least grateful the world hasn't collapsed at this point given the caliber of politicians these days.

B. The president is in campaign mode and so is Romney. Why bother listening to anything they are saying? What are either of them spewing that isn't charged, hyperbole or spun in some way? Yeah we have problems to tackle and the president is focusing on something you think is stupid. Well in the 1950s everyone sat around the TV to listen to Nixon, not about information regarding US-Soviet relations but whether Nixon is going to give his dog Checkers away.

C. Being principled means not dumbing yourself down for the win. Joining the Rush team in asking Romney to break out the "s-word" (which I take to mean socialism) is just feeding the political game that undermines our liberal democracy. I don't call Romney the 1% and I don't have an Obama bumper sticker either.

I get very anxious when any single presidential election is treated like a life or death situation for the US, our system is stronger than that. The people are more than ready to have a carbon copy of the 2010 midterm elections if second term Obama fails miserably.