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Talking of Marxist paradise, my local House district 7, is currently returning 81% for the democrat, take that Texas dwellers. Anyone beat me for the true Marxist paradise?

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A little legal ghanja sure does go to the head quickly. :rolleyes:

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If only I was 21 and old enough to buy it.

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Texas Democrat here. The true Marxist paradise is at my house tonight, bring a bottle of booze (from each according to his ability, yadda yadda...) :thumbsup:

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Ted's just happy he's earnt enough money, to own some land to shoot Whitetail deer on with a bow. Although he's a bit pissed off he can't do it on a Sunday. Yeehaw.

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What, exactly, is so wonderful about Obama? You do realize that he has changed nothing whatsoever about GW's foreign policy towards the middle east? That he has changed nothing about GW's extremely questionable legal framework for dealing with terrorism including the Patriot Act? That he has radically expanded drone usage and state-sponsored assasinations? That he has not even come close to closing Guantanamo, a key campaign promise? That his key legislative "accomplishment", his healthcare act, is an incomprehensible, unsustainable mess and nothing but a sop for the insurance companies? That he essentially gave GM to the UAW, the very same people who were directly responsible for its problems? That he has set the US government on a course for fiscal ruin in the short term? That he has put in place the CFPB, the single most anti-democratic and unmanageable bureaucracy in American history? That he has reneged on all of his "reach across the aisle" campaign rhetoric and is just as much a partisan and party-line guy as GW ever was if not more so? That his "reset" policy towards Russia has done nothing but push that country towards an evermore dictatorial kleptocracy? That he has done nothing to prevent Iran from getting an atomic bomb? That he has allowed an American ambassador to be killed and done absolutely nothing, despite this being one of the few clearly defined acts of war? That he has carefully sidestepped any "tricky" dealings with China, allowing it to run roughshod over its Asian neighbors? That his vaunted "stimulus" package was a giant, ineffectual pork barrel waste that has never been audited or even assessed? That he went strangely silent on campaign finance reform when his own coffers started to overflow?

I didn't like Romney either, but I don't get the swooning over Obama. In my opinion, he's a cynical product of Chicago machine politics. I'm shocked at people's willingness to buy his bullshit.

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Not keen then?

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Less than thrilled, I would say.

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I'm shocked at the inability of the Republican party to field a candidate that could beat him, given that he's as bad as all that.

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Should have been a breeze.

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Exactly. I could have been swayed away from Obama, if the Repubs had actually put out a candidate I could vote for.

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This I totally agree with. Can we please get a viable social liberal, fiscal conservative on the ballot? Please?

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I have seen very little swooning. A lot of the devil you know and the least of two evils - but support for Obamacare, has given him a level of respectability.

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Goodbye, America. It was fun while it lasted.

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It's the stubborn inability to vote for any other candidate than one with an R or a D after their name. Candidates to suit alternative views are out there -- it's just that nobody votes for them despite the fact that many of the electors' views would more closely match with these candidates.