Illegal Smile
Well-Known Member
I like the way you are looking at candidates critically. My approach is normally to oppose the GOP. I'm a hopeless liberal. I want corporations to follow the law, not lead it. I want progressive agendas and personal liberty for everyone including gays and racial minorities. I want wars to end and weed to be legal. Definitely what most conservatives would call head-up-my-ass. I was overjoyed that the Iraq war ended. I applaud that gay people can serve openly. As an ex-infantryman, I would not care if the guy I shared a fox-hole with was gay. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
You may not be able to tell that things are better for you, but the man took office with two wars going on, the biggest deficit in history (which admittedly he increased). Things should CERTAINLY have gotten worse for all of us. Awesome defense I know, saying things would have sucked way worse. It seems you want facts and not opinions, so explicate the criticism that my post receives with that eye and see how much of it is BS. Most of the anti-Obama rhetoric I hear is devoid of facts. It only appeals to conservative passions, not objective logic. Some Obama complaints are quite valid though, NDAA comes to mind.
Despite that you have repeatedly said you think it is ludicrous to even care about cannabis prohibition as an issue in a US presidential election, there is also much to consider in that debate. This IS a grower's forum anyway right? When I say 'we' or 'us' referring a group with political interests that includes me, I am referring to growers. Obama has done more for us than anyone has since the drug war started. I know I will have to defend that statement and I am prepared to. It is undeniable that the recent progress in this fight did not begin while the previous president was in office. The recent crackdown on dispensaries is seen as Obama's betrayal by some but I am also prepared to defend Obama there if you are interested. It is legal to grow cannabis plants in about a third of the country.
Obama is not my first choice at all. If the race narrows down to Obama vs Romney, I will vote against Romney. Obama gives us some personal liberty with one hand while with the other hand he signs NDAA and that scares me but it is only logical I would be even more afraid if he would have signed NDAA after limiting our liberty. Don't be so hasty to say Obama = Romney.
Yeah, that's it! I'm better off but just don't know it. What a classic nanny-state thing to say.