Derelict_Drvr
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I would agree but add that on the other hand conservatives wishing for Obama to fail shouldn't be surprised as liberals act in same manner they themselves did 8 year ago. How many conservatives did we hear 8 years ago insisting that Obama was their President? I don't put down either group when it comes to the issues. Where it gets ugly is the fake news both generate and real ugly when there is almost a sense of glee within these people when incidents of tragedy occur that they use to run down the President.
The Democrats have learned a great deal in the last eight years in terms of how a minority party should act. Oppose EVERY initiative from the other party. Compromise is failure. Use the press to pound home the failures of the President and never let up. Make the President a one term President. Healthcare is a third rail of politics. Whatever the other side proposes in terms of healthcare...link it to death and suffering. Saying NO is a powerful tool. It is easy to find fault....much harder to govern. Filibuster everything
Why should Democrats do anything more than Republicans offered as the minority?
You go on and on about how Republicans were so mean to Obama and conviently have selective memory on how the Left reacted to "W".
Every Democrat I know said "Bush is NOT my President", while I never heard a Republican say Obama is not my President. What most felt was not hate (like Democrats appear to feel for anyone on the right), but fear over what Obama would do to America with his beliefs, associations, and his thinly veiled Socialist leanings, whereas Conservatives believe in the Constitution as written and in the traditional values of America, which are kiberty, limited government, independence, self-determination, responsibility for ones own actions, and the right to keep the fruits of our labor. Not the Socialist, cradle-to-grave, one size fits all, nanny state the Left seems to yearn for.
We believed Obama when he said that he would "Fundamentally change America", and for the above stated reasons we feared what he would ultimately do. That is the reason most on the Right tried to obstruct and limit what he would do, and even with that he nearly succeeded.
It seems that since the election of 1999, and Florida, the animosity of one party towards the other has snowballed. It's far time to step back, take a deep breath, and to focus on America, its people, and work on keeping our country on its original path and preserve the fundamental reasons we exist in the first place. We need to focus on a government OF people, BY the people, and FOR the people. It's imperative we dictate terms to the government and not permit government to dictate to us.
We are a country of laws, and those laws pertain to both the government and the people. We must be vigilant of the government making arbitrary laws, while at the same time being vigilant of citizens arbitrarily breaking just laws. Time to identify as Americans first, political party members second, to make/keep America free, prosperous, and a "Shining City On The Hill".