Gregg, not baiting. I really would like your take on this.
You pianted the US exactly how I see it and have seen it for my entire life.
So why were you all for fundamentally changing it?
I don't really buy into political slogans, although Obama was a change from Bush. I was more for change in foreign policy compared to Bush. Instead of being a cowboy and disrespecting others I wanted a well spoken president that would open dialogue and not be so arrogant to other nations. INcreases in science (going back to Clinton days) compared to Bush I also wanted. Also didn't want a fundy catering president like Bush at least appeared to be, with only some policies catering to them, like stupid abstinence only education, which is a joke.
Oh, I liked McCain, until he started backtracking to get the fundamentalist vote, and any thoughts of potentially voting for him were out the window when he did this, and especially when he picked Palin as VP. His entire campaign reeked of dirty GOP political tactics and mudslinging. I was glad when he one the primaries cause I think he would of been a respectable president (if he kept to his moderate self like he was as a senator)
Healthcare needed to be fixed, I really have no idea whether the current reform will. I sort of agreed with the Bush bank bailouts since a crumbling banking system would of really sent us into a spiral. Wasn't too thrilled at first with Obama's stimulus and then hearing about some of the trips and shit companies that got money were going on, but it seems to have done some good, and maybe it could stave off a full on depression, which I think is what the point was. But economics doesn't make much sense to me, never my strong area, and IMO is very complex, so who really knows.
I may defend the stimulus only because can't stand listening to all the lies and slippery slope arguments you often here from many conservatives, when nobody has a crystal ball, let alone the expertise to accurately forecast the effects. ANd it seems many weren't even giving it a chance to see if it worked. And then the outrage over spending, yet no problem fighting two expensive wars. And when people questioned it, they were labeled as terrorist sympathizers or unpatriotic. Now that a dem in power, especially a black man (can't deny there are still racists in this country) there is all the violence rhetoric and anti-government rhetoric, when the left did it, they were unpatriotic.
There may be plenty of good conservatives out there, but far too many resort to these bullshit, intellectually dishonest tactics.
OK, that was too long, went off on a tangent, sorry.