The reality of the 2012 presidential election

In the last 10 years, America has accumulated an enormous deficit on the back of a retarded texan hillbilly, George W. Bush.

In 2004, the American people were lightheaded when he was elected to a second term. The incumbent advantage here turned into a disastrous 3 trillion dollar deficit by the end of his term.

Obama, the first black president elected in 2008, the democratic rebound in politics, the answer to the countries terrible downturn.

Thank you Obama for all your wonderful contributions.

• refused to roll back taxes on the wealthy
• refused to establish a windfall profits tax on oil companies
• refused to investigate activities carried out by telecom companies
• illegally helped the government tap our phones, and who continued to tap phones without a warrant
• turned his back on Miranda
• refused to investigate any of the Bush Admin. lies, incompetence, corruption or torture
• supported anti-democratic, murderous coup regimes in Central America
• refused to restore Habeas Corpus
• left Guantanamo open indefinitely and maintain that its inmates had no rights at all
• continued extraordinary rendition and torture
• fought to keep Dick Cheney's remarks to Plame investigators secret
• did nothing of substance to rein in Wall St.
• continued to issue signing statements
• continued to delay investigations of CIA torture and even investigate those who protest that torture
• traded away the Public Option even while saying he was in favor of it
• expanded the war in Afghanistan
• opened "vast expanses" of Atlantic seaboard, Gulf of Mexico and Alaska to oil and natural gas drilling
• put politics before science and minimized the BP oil spill and then claimed that there was practically no oil left and that "the microbes ate it!"
• continually filed briefs in favor of large corporate polluters
• was in favor of whale hunting
• used cluster bombs on civilians in Yemen
• refused to investigate Bush's political firings of US Attorneys
• appointed a bunch of right wing psychopaths to the Commission of Fiscal Responsibility
• tried to balance the budget on the backs of the poor and middle class
• allowed Wall St. Banks, the filthy rich and military corporations to continue plundering our economy
• tried to institute policies which would effectively shut down the internet.

Kudos for this list CCrider

Is this what America wants? No! The people are losing, we're losing really fucking hard.

The GOP and the Tea-Party rave and rant harder than ever. They support everything destroying the middle class and giving to the top class. Then, democrats like Cuomo acknowledging the "reality" of the budget crisis only to keep giving to wealthy.
We can't be tricked like this.

"How far will elected Democrats from the White House on down go in capitulating to the insatiable corporate dominators if their liberal/progressive base continues to signal that they politically have nowhere to go? These voters seem to have few visible breaking points on the dark horizon of over-reaching corporatism.

You have both sides doing the same thing, and I think Ralph Nader presents the reality of the true democratic crisis. Democratic here, being that the people choose, not the corporations.

How is it that polls indicate 81% of Americans agree with higher taxes for millionairies, and both parties continue to present apocalyptic cuts in the name of the budget?


The numbers are there. The bottom 20% sees 200$ a year in additional income. The top 1% sees 6 million a year in just GROWTH.

This is financial insanity.

When you see someone backing Obama, it's not because they want him in office, it's because they think he's better than the GOP. It's because they want to support him because they are also a democrat. But in the reality of it, he's never been on record for any progressive policy, even when he had the perfect senate democratic majority. Those are the facts.

You saw Obama say "No, Ryan, your budget sucks at 33 billion in cuts, i'll give you 38 billion and not a penny more."

Progressives need to have a citizen power like the Tea Party, because you see republicans pushing that agenda. Where do you see democrats being overlooked by the progressive people? YOU DON'T. You see protests of workers in Madison and Ohio and all over the country, but not a single progressive action has been taken.

In order to win, the people are going to have to put progressive politics back into the political system. The only way to win this is to show that we will not support Obama. You can't vote against who you want to win. It's pushing an agenda that's driving this country into the ground. The presidential election of 2012 is already decided. Obama is going to win.

The real answer was seen in the 2000 election. Seeing Nader win probably wouldn't put this country on track, but seeing a country where a majority elects someone like Nader, that's the real answer. Al Gore got less votes and lost because of Nader. You can believe it or you can't. But the truth of the matter is, Al Gore would have been just as bad. None of this is new. We havn't seen a real progressive in decades.



Don't let the guy at 11:20 stare into your soul and steal your progressive dreams. We need to win this. The people need to win this.

We need to focus on the more important duty of recognizing true progressive politicians and putting them into elected office. Work your ass off, because that's the only way we'll win. We can wait for an Abraham Lincoln to emancipate us from this debt, or we can be the change we want to see in society.

And on a day like today, it really brings it home to think about the Civil War and what it tells us about our countries past. We know how a perfect political split violently concludes. And I for one will not be participating. War is the stupidest blunder to ever plague the human race.