Originally Posted by Rhode Kamelot
I support Bush, so a lot of those arguments don't really work on me. The reason Obama scares me is because he wants to drastically change so many things, and he has radical plans for the country that are not good ideas at all. And sarcasm? Waving a communist flag around is not sarcastic. It's not appropriate under any circumstances.
As if what Bush did
wasn't radical? I can't think of anything Obama wants to do that's so radical...are you talking about health care? It sounded like a pretty decent compromise on the matter to me... There's really no reason to get so worked up about it anyways. The country constantly goes back and forth between the parties. What you're worried about happening now might be undone someday in the future (which is why our country isn't very productive.)
If you can't take the joke then the joke was probably aimed at you to begin with. It's the other side's fault for labeling him a communist.
I am annoyed at the emphasis people are carrying on tax cuts, as well. The current deficit in the country will not be fixed by collecting less money. Taxes need to remain the same or go up if we want to get anything done on our national deficit, and nobody seems to understand that. McCain isn't the best candidate we could have had as a party, but Sarah Palin is the woman I support for better or worse. She's very intelligent, and the only reason that didn't come across in the campaign is because the party did not allow her to shine and do her own thing. If you look at any of her interviews now that she is back in Alaska, you can see how smart she is, and what a good leader she is and has been to her state.
No president has EVER won without saying they would cut taxes, so you can only take the promise of "tax cuts" with a grain of salt.
I don't find banning books and making women pay for their rape kits a sure sign of "good leadership" but that's just my personal opinion. The sick thing is that the media hid from the public until AFTER the election the fact that Sarah Palin did not know the basics of civics in this country and that she had a hard time understanding that Africa is a continent and not a country (and no, I'm not making this up. This was on like all the news stations, except for FOX, clearly.) She might be smart, I wouldn't know, but does she understand how the country works? I think that's important for the vice president to know.
As for Obama's plans? 100 hours of community service for all college students is one of his ideas for bettering this country (which he doesn't support), and that makes no sense whatsoever. Service is something you need to be willing to do, otherwise it's work. I'd cite more specific examples, but his agenda ~*~magically~*~ disappeared from Change.gov last week.
Oh whatever. Community service is already practically required for everyone anyway. I can understand being against it in principle, but is it really such a bad thing to be forced to do a good thing? It's not like something like that would pass through Congress or anything anyways.