The Blue Board

Excellent post.

Huh? I don't want to implement austerity measures, but I do take exception to people trying to say Obama tried them. He never got anywhere close to real austerity, just did enough so he could say he tried and the sheeple would believe him.

We are technically not in the recession anymore, but you guys act like we are in a period of great prosperity or even on the brink of it. We haven't escaped the event horizon of the recession yet, and IYAM we are far more likely to fall back into it than truly come out of the recession. Where are the jobs? Unemployment figures are down because people stopped looking for work, not because they found it. Stock market gains are the big companies, not the average American becoming more prosperous.

I swear, you guys cannot see the forest for the trees.

I actually agree with all of this, but my question is, how would you propose to make this better? I object to a lot of Obama's policies and actions, but one of the main reasons I'm going to vote for him is because Romney won't do anything but push more and more wealth into the hands of corporations and the super-wealthy. Unfortunately, it's definitely a choice of the lesser of two evils when it comes to financial policy, but Romney's track record at Bain indicates nothing but contempt for anyone whose net worth isn't at least in the tens of millions of dollars.

Summary of most of the political/Obama discussion on this site:

It was Obama's decision to attack the compound. You bet your a$$ that if Osama got away, conservatives would blame it on him.

Not to mention the fact that if Osama's not in the compound for some reason, we just created an international incident by sending armed troops into a private Pakistani home for no good reason. The only scenario where this turns into a win for Obama is if everything goes right and we get Osama.

I love how people are so willing to dismiss Obama's role in this, while neglecting the fact that Bush had Osama in the crosshairs multiple times and never pulled the trigger authorizing a raid with ground troops.

Oh, I guess the director of the CIA must have been lying when he said Obama made a "gutsy decision" to proceed with the raid.

The thread started off mocking the influx of political threads into tBB recently, but it just devolved, as most political threads on this board tend to do.

Speaking only for myself, the main reason I continue to posts in threads like this is because I can't stand misinformation being spread around. I have no problem with opinions, but when factual information is just flat-out wrong, I feel an obligation to correct it and post the actual facts of a given issue.