Then it's clear you have no idea of what the far left is.
Obama is certainly not far left, not even a leftist and certainly to the right of Eisenhower, Theodore Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Nelson Rockefeller, Barry Goldwater, and many other Republicans. If you like I'd be happy to tell you about the GOP.
Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
You do understand that people are entitled to their opinion don't you.
Also, the OP makes no mention of what the "right thing" is. Us Obama supporters felt like the right thing was to vote for Obama. Why is it that the Romney supporter assumes that the OP was not supportive of Mittens ans some sort of attack on him?
All anyone has done is how their support for Obama, except for you who has attacked everyone that is not a Romney supporter. Way to endear people to your candidate.
There is that persecution complex again.
Then again why would you care what some fuzzy foreigner feels about the US election?
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Don't play coy. The "right thing" was understood from the beginning as reelecting Obama.
That is the prevailing attitude by many here and in many in other places. If you folks didn't assume that all "right thinking" people would feel the same way you would be a lot more tolerable.
There was no "I am voting for Obama because of..." That would invite a discussion, and possibly promote a counter opinion of "I am voting for Romney because of..." A productive discussion might follow.
But for far too many of you there is no justifiable counter opinion. Anyone who thinks otherwise is just beyond the pale.
The attitude you folks convey is getting real old.
But of course you can't see the water in which you swim.
Don't play coy. The "right thing" was understood from the beginning as reelecting Obama.
I figured that's what was really bothering you. It wasn't the content of any of the posts in response to the OP. It was the fact that we posted in response to a biased OP.
It was quite clear from the discussion, that everyone knows that election is close. And other than the initial statement by a non-voter from outside of the US, I didn't notice anybody doing anything other than reporting on how close the election was. I didn't see any trashing whatsoever of anyone for voting for Republicans; just an acknowledgement that about half of the people in a few close states were doing exactly that, and that people in Texas were doing that in large numbers. So your initial criticism was simply off-base.
There was no "I am voting for Obama because of..."
Coyote, as I recall we have had to practically beg you to participate in political discussion about the candidates in other threads. Generally you just drop by to express your displeasure that anyone would vote for Obama; often in fairly tasteless terms. In fact you did exactly that kind of posting here.
But you're right. This particular thread was not an engraved invitation to share reasons to vote for Romney. Big whoop. Nothing stopping you from doing so anyway.
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Coyote writes: Don't play coy. The "right thing" was understood from the beginning as reelecting Obama.
If Romney were taking positions to the left of Obama, I would still be supporting Obama.
In my judgment, Romney suffers from serious character flaws, serioius enough to make him unfit to serve as president. I'm not a mind reader, but I suspect that those perceived character flaws, rather than left/right politics, are what motivated the OP for this thread.
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Then it's clear you have no idea of what the far left is.
In right-wing political discourse, "far left" is a term used to refer to anyone to the left of the Republican Party. This is partly because they don't do nuance, but mainly because they're shameless liars.
Really, you folks need to stop thinking that your opinions are the only ones out there, and the only ones that are correct.
One side is full of homophobics, racists, creationsts, supporting a guy who believes in a ridiculous story about Joseph Smith and golden tablets. That side is fucking wrong no matter what.
There is only one choice, as not so great as that choice may be, in my opinion. BUT with that siad, republican ideologies, or better yet, what they are these days, are just sickening.
Am I right in thinking that if it is a tie it goes to congress or the senate and that the decision will most likely go to Mittens?
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The opening post, "Do the right thing" -- as if there were only one choice. That's not a centrist opinion.
If that's isn't an example of the far left I don't know what is.
Wait, so if a foreign pro-Romney person enjoins the American members of their online community to 'do the right thing' (meaning to vote for Romney) - is that an example of the far left too?
It was "Do the right thing" as in no other choices are permitted among "right thinking" folks.
If 'TARP was the right thing to do' implies there are no other choices among 'right thinking' folks - does that make Romney a member of the far left?
Really, you folks need to stop thinking that your opinions are the only ones out there, and the only ones that are correct. It gets really old after about 45 years or so.
And you should probably have grown used to the fact that those with different opinions to you will think those opinions 'right' much of the time, thus implying those that think otherwise are not 'right thinking'. And that this phenomena isn't limited to the left wing of politics.
I'm pretty certain there are many who will be voting for Romney because they believe it the right thing to do, and who also think that voting for Obama is the wrong thing to do.
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