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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
I never saw you as being libertarian. What I've noticed is that you bash Conservatives pretty hard and I began to notice you didn't do that with Liberals. The reason this always stands out to me is because you are clearly a very intelligent and articulate person that I wouldn't expect to be very biased towards either side. Doesn't surprise me that you identify as a Libertarian.
His ratings have been pretty poor for a long time. They are certainly not at their lowest right now. So of course many factors influence ratings at once, but I personally don't believe that conservatives bashing a liberal have much to do with it. His problems did not start with these recent polls. He has been weak and had a low approval rating for a long time now.
Sure, its many things at once that affect his popularity.
Personally, i haven't watched the news in maybe over a year. Not CNN, FOX, MSNBC, BBC... not anything. Its too depressing. Only on rare occasion do i open msnbc.com or cnn.com just to skim the headlines and make sure a nuke didn't get dropped somewhere... I just felt like being an ass ;)
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To me the conservatives are sell out pieces of garbage who want to push their views and their way of life on everyone. I also see them as putting the country up for sale to the highest bidder. I bash them because of this.
I see the liberals as spineless cowards. They rarely ever take a stand. All you have to do is look at the first two years Obama was in office. They had everything they could dream of and yet they still gave in to the republicans. I also think they made stupid decisions. The first thing they should have done is put all their energy in to getting the economy working again. I understand there is a limited amount they can do, but there are a lot of steps they could take. Instead they focused all their energy on passing a healthcare bill that likely will eventually get repealed and if not may end up never actually being what they hoped it would be.
Both sides are pretty much made up of the same groups who waste money, increase the size of the government and want to tell me how to live my life. They just do it in slightly different ways. I will admit that that I am a little easier at times on the liberals. This is because at least most of them are honest about what they are. They say they want to tax and spend and admit that they want to increase government influence in some areas. The republicans sell the pipe dream of less spending, less government and more personal freedom, but time and again they prove to do just the opposite.
In the end I don't have a lot of patience for either side. If everyone who claimed to "pick the lesser of two evils" or just didn't vote because they don't think it is worth it actually voted for a 3rd party candidate we would have a legit 3rd party in this country. But that would require people to turn off American Idol and actually pay attention which likely isn't going to happen soon.
As for Obamas ratings. . . like you say they have been bad for a while. He has hovered in the mid 40's for a couple of years now. I actually don't think his approval rating will matter much when the election comes around. He will push the positive things he has done and if the economy continues to improve that will be a be plus for him and the republican will have to convince people, mostly the independents, that he can do a better job. That will not be an easy task.