Political frustrations

[smatterings]

This may be a bit of a rant; thanks for putting up with me.

First: Obama/Biden will win. This is now clear beyond any real doubt, unless we see a very widespread incidence of the "young people don't vote phenomenon".

I think an Obama win is a good thing for the following reasons:
1. Obama is black. I'm excited about having a black president. One glass

Comments

[skmdc]

Most of the Republicans I know would sooner eat their own foot than "admit that there are rational worldviews on both sides of many of these issues

[smatterings]

You may be right, but it seems to me that it all changed with Bush. I think that Bush is absolutely despicable, truly an idiot, and the old guard Neocons around him (Ashcroft, Cheney, Rumsfeld) really are the closest thing to "evil" in the political arena. But it's like we all just got so _used_ to Repubs being just plain _evil_ (as opposed to "wrong" in a political sense) that we forgot that it's this particular _group_ of them that's so bad. We didn't hear this about Reagan, or Bush Sr

[humanistj]

Not all Republicans are ignorant racists. It's just that all ignorant racists are Republicans

[weaselblighter]

I understand your point, and agree to some degree. However, I do not think it is fair to complain about Republicans being stereotyped based on the Bush administration, and then throw in this line:

"It seems that the default position of all libs now is the following: ..."

Is that how "all libs" feel? I would identify my political views as strongly liberal, and I have never asserted nor suggested any of the points you list thereafter.

No matter how frustrated we get, the courtesy goes both ways.

[smatterings]

You're absolutely right. I should have couched it in terms of my personal experiences. I did say "seems" as in "seems, based on what I encounter," but please accept my apology for slighting libs in general.