POLL: Is Barack Obama a Republican?

[jayzds]

As someone who is directly and positively impacted by Obama's health care plan, all I can say is that you're wrong. My life is indisputably better because Obama was elected and McCain was not, and I have a number of friends who are in the same boat.QUOTE]


I am curious on how your life is better because of Obama?
I have not noticed any improvement in the last two years from what I experienced and clients I deal with.

 

[Scotteq]

You're right, I can see the compromise there. Democrats compromised on the tax cut extensions, and Republicans compromised their stance on cutting the deficit. Yay compromise.

Thank you

They can do this because they both have bigger pictures and larger plans. So a little horse trading (you guys win yours, and we win ours) gets the job done.


...and before we get into some stupid argument: Please understand that I consider both Dems and Repubs to be not unlike two wolves (a red and a blue one, 'natch) fighting over which lamb is for supper...




(..that's a compromise position, BTW...

 

[fskimospy]

I am curious on how your life is better because of Obama?
I have not noticed any improvement in the last two years from what I experienced and clients I deal with.

I should clarify, my life will be indisputably better when it goes into effect. I had cancer when I was 28 and so I'm denied private insurance due to a pre-existing condition. I now have to base my decisions for my career and my life on being sure that I don't allow my health insurance to lapse. Trust me, this sucks.

I think in general people have a strange idea that federal legislation will make a big difference in their lives. It generally won't. This is why I always vote in local elections, because while it might sound stupid, the idiots on your local city council have a lot more impact on your life than Obama does.

 

[trenchfoot]

Would the repubs bargain for the unemployed the way Obama did? Hell no. He practically gave the store away just so the unemployed would get an extension on their payouts along with a few other scraps favorable to the middle class and the poor.

He got what he could from his fractured party and a very unified opposition. Sure, one could say he's weak in the sense that he couldn't unify and get his party behind him, but he is definetely not a DINO.

Frankly, I'm pissed at him for the image he's making for himself, but he's substance-minded and a realist which precludes him from doing the song and dance the repubs do so well.

More than anything else, the large block of corporate-owned DINO blue dogs in the Dem party made certain that he would not be able to mount an offensive anything near the likes of what the repubs had come to the fray with, let alone how independently minded the Dems as a whole are.

IMO, given the cards he got dealt and the weak backing he had to put up with, he did what he could. No more, no less.

Obama a repub? No way.

 

[IGBT]

he's a secular regressive.

 

[Siddhartha]

The Tea Partiers and et were saying he is a Muslim, Nigerian, Pinko, Socialist, Commie, etc.