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Originally Posted by theking
What has he specifically done that the Republicans wanted?
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what joshgirls said is good enough an answer I suppose - my immediate thought was that it's easier to name the few things he did the republicans did not want, like the personal banking and credit card regulations passed the first year. They were riddled with loopholes, and the regulations were written by wall street insiders, but, it was not republican.
If you have some favorite event or decision that you'd like to offer as a refutation of obama's essential republicanism, state it, I'll look at it.
My judgement is not based on one thing but on an ongoing series of capitulations. I can't think of a single time he stood on principle. Everything is political expediency and doing what wall street told him to do.
But, I am not a centrist, or a moderate, or a center-right safety-netter like the majority of democrat voters, I am a radical progressive with specific interests in science, technology, energy, futurism, and competing in the global economy.
For my interests, obama was a disaster, and I hate the fucker. No matter what happens, I will never put a mark next to his name on a ballot again. Nor will I give money to the democratic party, and I give a lot of money to political causes. Fuck them.