My response to right wing co-worker's comments on facebook [View All]

He posted that "Obama is the most unamerican president in our history. BY FAR!"

Here is what I wrote:

The most un-American President in our history? Really? Elected by the most popular votes (66,862,039) of any president ever in the history of our country with a larger electoral victory(365-173) than Bush had in either election? Come on Mike. Just because you don't like the outcome of the election doesn't mean it was un-American. Barack Obama, like it or not, was elected in a democratic process prescribed by our Constitution. The majority of Americans apparently liked the platforms President Obama ran on thus he was elected. That means he gets to now carry out those platforms if he can and, yes, he can use political arm twisting to do so (Just as every other President has done before him). When Bush won by many less popular and electoral votes he said, "I have political capital and I'm gonna spend it." And he did.

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0781450.html - historical election data.

You asked to explain how the repubs got their asses handed to them. Here is a brief (but not all inclusive list):... See More

President Obama beat the republican candidate soundly (whoopin' 1). President Obama thrashed the republicans at their Q&A on healthcare summit (whoopin' 2). He got the health insurance bill passed against a sea of lies and rhetoric put forth by the tea party, republicans, and it's media wing Fox News (whoopin' 3). There will be many more legislative victories by this president and this Congress as long as the republicans remain stuck in their rhetorical delusional irrational frenzy they have worked themselves and decent patriotic people like you into.

David Frum, GWB speechwriter and bona fide conservative said in a recent article that the intransitive stance the republicans have taken by tying themselves closely to the radical elements of the Tea Party movement is going to cost them dearly in the forthcoming elections. He correctly points out that this health care bill, far from being socialism or communism, closely resembles the legislation pushed by Republican favorite Mitt Romney in Massachusetts and the original republican counter plan to Bill Clinton's healthcare proposal in the 1990's created by radical socialists Robert Dole and The Heritage Foundation.

http://www.frumforum.com/waterloo