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Endorsed both Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown before the facts of the case were in. Literally race-baited horseshit at every opportunity to distract from his major failures such as unemployment and GDP. Thank you president Al Sharpton.
His primary crime was being black, smart, and liberal
there is obviously a backlash against this
I don't dislike him because he was black. The only thing that bothered me about him being black was that everybody else cared that he was.
I hated that he got elected, in part, on an anti-war message and proceeded to expand it. You could argue that it was necessary, particularly the surge in Afganistan. I tend to side with Ron Paul on the middle east and feel we need to let them do their own thing. I feel like they're a people that need to be ruled, and not democratically. Similar to Russia, which needs to have a strong leader that rules with an iron fist to be their best.
I didn't like the expansion of state welfare. I'm not wholly opposed to it, but I feel it needs to apply to everybody at this point. Expanding the scope just makes those who don't fall under it resentful. I don't want to go into this further now, though.
The government has more reach now than it ever did. The big one is the Patriot Act. He had multiple opportunities to put an end to it, but he didn't. It's only expanded in his time in office. The other thing stuck in my craw, going with the previous paragraph, was mandating healthcare. It was already effectively required, but he allowed it to be a penalized offense. WIth everybody suddenly needing healthcare, the market exploded and costs went with it. Personally, I went from paying under $200/mo to over $600/mo and my coverage and costs get worse and worse every year.
The more he did, the more it seemed we felt it. This is a far different country now than it was when he took office, and I don't believe it was for the better.
I was not particularly a fan of the adulation
yet the "sabotage him at all costs" mentality disturbed me as well
He's not saying anything unreasonable here, but he's leaning on the idea that we're too dumb to handle the information. I think I can take it.
If you consider a lot of the traffic on Facebook . . . .
a lot of people accept obvious troll posts as if it were serious truth
This is not an insignificant number of people
Says the man that most people I know (Regardless of their views) say divided america.
I don't really plan to post or get into politics on this site, but the hypocrisy of this guy always bothers me. Though to be fair, peoples dislike for him has probably brought people together