I'm not a fan of Obama, in case you couldn't tell. Don't like the man. But I do have to thank him. Thank him for giving me back my passion for politics. I remember writing these three posts
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And I was sick of politics at that time. Sick of the games and the crap. Just everything. I'd become apathetic. Just gave up. Wrong move. Because in doing so I didn't notice what our government was doing to us. And here we are, three years later and I'm a different person. A better person. So I want to thank President Obama for giving me my love of politics back. It's helped me to take my head out of the sand and open my eyes. The way I should have been all along. I did get two things wrong though. Rudy didn't have to run as a third party candidate and Republicans weren't moving more to the Right, they were moving more to the Left.
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Hang in there. I am with you. I had the same reaction. I was just disconnected for so long. I was tired of fighting. The Obama nightmare has awakened a lot of Americans that either stopped caring or never paid attention before. If the end result is a return to our First Principles and limited govt, then maybe suffering through an Obama presidency will be worth it.
If both of you were concerned with limited government then why didn’t you “wake up” during the Bush administration? Government spending that turned a surplus into a deficit during his first administration, Medicare part D that enacted a new entitlement program without paying for it, No Child Left Behind that federalized K-12 education, the government bailouts to the financial industry, etc.
Silke, not sure if you noticed the dates for those posts or not but I wrote those in 2006. If I can remember that far back, Bush was still president. I wish I'd woken up sooner, but party loyalty blinded me. I honestly believed Republicans knew better. It's kind of like people who hammered Bush for doing what he was doing now turning a blind eye to Obama doing the same things because it's for something they want.
Silke: Oh believe me I was pissed at the repubiks when they were destroying our liberty and spending us into oblivion. I may actually trust them less than the dems if only b/c I know what I am getting w/ the dems. I actually disconnected in around 2005 after I realized Bush and the repubiks were not going to do the right thing. They were just playing games and acting more like the dems. Trust me, both political parties are disasters for America. The repubiks are a bullet train to hell and the dems are a rocket ship to hell. They are going to the same place, just one's a little bit faster.
For me it was illegal immigration that began my turn away from the party. Too many Republicans cared too much about winning over the "Latino vote". But it was the AIG bailout that sealed it.
And yet Ronald Reagan granted amnesty to millions of illegal aliens during his Presidency. If this is what turned you away from the GOP why didn't it turn you away from Reagan?
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