I don't like any of the Republican candidates for president. On the other hand, I am not very happy with our current president either. Barack Obama, in my opinion, broke his promise to the Florida people when he assured them late in the 2008 campaign that he would support NASA's proposed mission to the moon and later Mars. Instead, a few months after he took office, he thoroughly scrapped it. With Democratic control of Congress for two years, he could have done something to rescue the U.S. Postal Service from its financial problems, caused largely by an unfunded mandate passed by a lame-duck Republican Congress and signed by President Bush in December 2006. But instead he did nothing. He wasted too much time trying to reach compromise agreements with the opposition Republicans who clearly expressed that their primary objective was not to pass responsible legislation, but rather to make Obama's presidency a failure. When revolt broke out in Libya and dictator Gadhafi was hemmed in around Tripoli by advancing rebel forces, Obama kept our naval fleet, stationed just off the coast in the Mediterranean, from taking out the dictator's air force while he hemmed and hawed for two weeks trying to amass an international coalition. The result was thousands of lives lost as Gadhafi regained the upper hand and nearly retook the country; the bloody conflict then dragged on for several needless months. Obama displayed shortsightedness and naivete by trying to pressure Israel into concessions in order to resume peace negotiations with a Palestinian government that had NO EFFECTIVE AUTHORITY to carry out any resulting agreement. And I take issue with our president's extremism on the environment in the face of the urgent national need to develop our own, domestically-produced sources of energy.
There, I said it: I am not a happy camper regarding our president's record. I think the dude-in-chief has screwed up quite a bit, in fact.
But with all that having been said, I still think that Barack Obama is on the right track in general with both our domestic economic policy and with our foreign policy. Some of the problems he has had in office have come from the absolute refusal of the Republicans to even present an appearance of working with him to achieve a reasonable policy.
I don't think I have ever been so dismayed by the deteriorating level of politics within our government. Of those currently running for president on the GOP side (as well as the couple who have recently dropped out), I would say that they are all pathetic, lame jokes, except for the possibility that one of them may actually end up as our next president!
Scary stuff, scary stuff...
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Oh, I am absolutely disappointed with President Obama. He's barely taken baby steps along the path he promised to take us, has done almost none of what I'd hoped he would do, and hasn't come close to living up to the (admittedly unreasonably high) expectations many of us had for him. When I look at his apparent (as opposed to stated) position on things like detention of political prisoners, restriction of free-speech and due process rights, and many other issues, I'm dismayed.
The sad thing is that I'll vote for him again, despite all that, because the alternatives are worse.
At least it looks like the Republicans will likely put forth Mr Romney, who is, while not someone I could vote for, somewhat reasonable. The others in that chariot race range from unacceptable to complete looney-tunes, as I see it.
The problem with Romney is that nobody really knows where he stands on anything anymore or what he will do once he steps into office. So why would anyone support someone like that, unless of course the rest of the field was incredibly inferior?
Well, I think I just answered my own question!
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