It looks like we’re going to have six more months of the Obama campaign trying to prove that their candidate has conservative values and believes in conservative ideas.

But doesn’t he already?

Oh, re: last sentence. Yes, we are.

I know, carguy, the only thing we, the (little) people are allowed to have any say over is the bright and shiny distraction issues of the social/cultural wars. Like abortion, contraception (or women’s rights), Gay Rights (marriage equality), or how much we need to limit sex on TV compared to what the appropriate level of violence should be.

There is no conversation on the real issues that effect our pocketbooks, unless it’s both sides of the uni-party screaming “lower taxes”. And the folks who actually go too far in pointing this out (Edwards, Spitzer, Kucinich, Grayson) are marginalized, sometimes permanently, regardless if they were actually sincere or not in their anti-corporate populism.

Where Obama honest, instead of a duplicitous neo-lib piece of shit that makes George W. Bush look like a cherry-tree-chopping young Washington by comparison, his campaign slogan in 2008 would have been:

“Yes, We Can… Screw You Over”, because they have, are, and will continue to do so.

This is actually good news for the long run. Germany and France in lockstep under the Sarkozy/Merckel partnership spelled years of economic ruin for Europe’s middle class with their forced austerity. If Greece elects an anti-austerity government the handwriting may finally be on the wall in Brussels – that the only way to keep the Euro intact is through a growth strategy for all, and if not, then the Euro will fall apart because the ECB is unsustainable without corresponding political unionization – which will never happen. In any event, if France continues on this path maybe Europe’s middle class is saved.

Soooo, let me see if I have this right: A Democratic SEC and DOJ decide that after three years of investigating financial shenanigans on Wall Street that were so obviously fraudulent, even folks who couldn’t follow “the Sting” understood to be criminal, failed to find any evidence of any wrongdoing.

And we’re supposed to vote for Obama because, the other asshole is from Wall Street and he would be even more evil. How exactly is Romney going to be worse when it comes to regulating Wall Street? Is he actually going to pass a law that forces us to tithe to approved investment banks, like Obama’s mandate will force us to subsidize insurance companies? Or will he just start sacrificing virgins on the trading floor?

Our only hope is a divided government. We are so truly fucked.

For all of us who passed MacroEconomics in college and understand how Keynesian deficit spending will lead to more jobs and a real economic recovery, the answer’s staring us in the face.

We need to elect a fucking Republican.

Arizona: Proof positive that truth (or consequences) is stranger than fiction.

I’m sure plenty of women have left over the church’s moronic views on contraception.

I left it in high school over this very issue, and I didn’t even need to have a vagina. The Church has been an equal opportunity offender for a long time. What I just don’t understand is why my mom and women like her still support this pathetic and morally bankrupt institution to this day. It and all the other fundie sects (C of C, Pentecostal, Southern Baptist, Mormon, 7th Day, etc.) which place a premium on literal interpretation of the Bible seem to have lost their fucking minds about what’s in the New Testament. They are the exact opposite in practice of what Christ was preaching about.

The drone program isn’t a secret. Our names on a list of “targets” to be hit is.

When you consider that the average age of American nuns is in their 70′s, I’d say a good number of them already have.

Church leadership since John Paul II has been the most reactionary and repressive since the Inquisition. After the Vatican II reforms under John XXIII which liberalized many church practices and doctrine, the conservatives have been waiting for an opportunity to roll them back. When John Paul II entered the scene they got their wish. Under Ratzinger’s Prefecture of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith liberals were purged and in some cases excommunicated from the Jesuits, Benedictines, and other orders. Emphasis was given to promoting hardcore reactionaries to power – as long as they firmly sided against all women’s rights issues, particularly abortion and contraception. Everything else was secondary, including protecting innocent children from sexual predator priests. This continues after JPII’s death, because Cardinal Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI.

Their is no place for the Catholic Church in a modern society or culture. That the government gives them and other religious institutions money for administering social programs is the sickest joke of all.

I no longer care if Obama “gets it” or not. I don’t even care what his real motives are either. I only know that Obama hasn’t represented me, or people like me, since he took office. It’s always been one lame-ass pathetic excuse after another, and I don’t care what they are anymore. I can’t vote for that spoiled rich bully either, but Big Zero has done nothing to earn, and everything to lose my vote in November.

NOTA… not bad. Better than anything I’ve ever thought up.

I think I’ve actually evolved my position regarding the election. Before I couldn’t care less whether Mittens or Big Zero wins in Nov. But knowing that one of the Mittster’s kids is named Tagg (probably from a character in an Ayn Rand novel), wow, that’s just pure comedy gold.

Think of it, with the un-hippest Daddy Warbucks in the White House ever desperately trying to prove he’s cool to the rest of the country Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert will never run out of material. And who knows, maybe even Bill Maher might be funny again.

Agreed.

Should Obama win in 2012, not only will the New Deal be killed off, but the Democratic Party will have completed its evolution into the “saner” version of the Republicans. An Obama victory means that real Liberals and Progressives will have no choice but to find a form a third party which represents the middle and working classes.

Just think, this legislative pile of pink slime is the signature accomplishment of the Obama presidency.

But don’t you know Tam, that during Obama’s second term he’s going to be so much more different and super-duper Progessivey? At least that’s what all the ‘bots from Daily Kos believe after he came out in favor of same sex marriage equality – if the state you live in doesn’t ban it first, of course. The ACA was a George W Bushism proved true – something about the “soft bigotry of lowered expectations”, once the Public Option was auctioned off to the highest bidding health insurance lobbyist.

Everything about Obama and his Reagan-loving, neo-liberal, centrist, lesser of two evils, civil liberty shredding, goat-fucking train wreck of an administration makes me want to vomit in my mouth. After Bush, I swore to never vote for a Republican. I may have to make the same pledge with regard to Democrats after Obama.