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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-28-09 08:13 AM
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Poll question: will you be supporting someone other than Obama in the
2012 primaries and general election?
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-28-09 08:16 AM
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1. Who is running?
It's a bit early.
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-28-09 08:20 AM
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2. well, seeing as so many people here seem to have come to a conclusion
about Obama one way or another, it's interesting to see what the answers will be.
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Political Heretic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-28-09 09:33 AM
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14. I don't accept your premise.
I think a lot of people have been accused of coming to a conclusion simply because they've dared to question or criticize.

What is ridiculous grade school like either/or thinking. We've got to get more adult about this. I both support Obama and some criticism to make as well.... OMG you can do both?!? NO WAI!
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-28-09 09:49 AM
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20. sorry, the answers in this thread alone confirm what I'm suggesting
there are quite a few people here who don't support Obama. Some of them never did. Some have decided that they can't support him since his inauguration. Of course, they're the minority, but they're quite a vocal one. And I criticize Obama regularly, and yet support him. There's a whole host of issues- and not insignificant ones- where I part company with him. I'm not talking about the folks that criticize him and support him.
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Political Heretic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-28-09 07:14 PM
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23. The answers in this thread? The poll overwhelmingly shows the opposite.... ?
:shrug:
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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-28-09 08:20 AM
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3. You bet. 60 days and no utopia yet.
Come on.................
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Laf.La.Dem. Donating Member (924 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-28-09 08:24 AM
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4. 60 days and only 1400 days to go
A lot can happen in 1400 days - way too early:freak:
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lamp_shade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-28-09 08:40 AM
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5. Ofercrissake
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-28-09 08:51 AM
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6. Do you think we could see how Obama does first?
This is just joining the Limbaugh fail band wagon.
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Warren Stupidity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-28-09 08:59 AM
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7. No.
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sendero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-28-09 10:24 AM
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21. By deciding to bail out Wall Street...
... instead of America, he's already well on the road to failure.

I actually thought Obama would be different, my bad. He is apparently as bought and sold as the next pol.
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-28-09 09:21 AM
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8. I'm real happy with the new guy. Didn't care for the old guy at all.
Obama carried North Carolina and Indiana, for example. Two real red states. Very impressive.

I expect to be pleased with his presidency by the time primary season rolls around in late 2011 and don't expect any in-party challenges to his leadership.

Strongly backing Obama and fully expect him to win a second term.

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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-28-09 09:27 AM
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9. at the rate hes going now with his war mongering friends
I am edging away from voting for him again. his escalation in Afghanistan and continuation of mercenaries there using tax payers dollars and his admin's sucking up to wall street have left me cold. so far I see too much continuation of corporate policy deciding usa 's fate. I will wait and see, but its looking like hes heading to centerrightville. I saw Clinton do that, and didnt like it back then either. if it continues on this path, yeah, I will vote independent just to live with myself.
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lamp_shade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-28-09 09:30 AM
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10. Hey... maybe Kucinich will challenge him.
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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-28-09 09:32 AM
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12. Thats the man I look up to
you betcha. Kucinich has, so far, spoken the language of a hero.
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lamp_shade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-28-09 09:40 AM
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18. Now how did I know that?
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-28-09 09:32 AM
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13. oh, I think that's pretty predictable.
as is the result of such a challenge.
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-28-09 07:19 PM
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25. WTF is he trying to do. Be LBJ but instead of the Great Society he'll give the bankers all the ....
money and then tighten our belts with "entitlement reform"?
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Political Heretic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-28-09 09:31 AM
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11. Way too soon.
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-28-09 09:37 AM
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15. I'll vote for the most progressive, anti-war, candidate on the ballot.
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-28-09 09:38 AM
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16. I take it you mean that for the general election
as well as the primary.
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-28-09 09:39 AM
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17. Of course.
"I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all." --Thomas Jefferson to Francis Hopkinson, 1789.

"Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,...to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or moral man." --Thomas Jefferson to William Branch Giles, 1795.

“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost." --John Quincy Adams
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-28-09 09:46 AM
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19. You need Ron Paul as an option in this poll
That is, if you're seeking a true measure of teh crazy currently infesting DU right now.
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Kansas Wyatt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-28-09 10:54 AM
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22. President Obama & the Democratic Party have ONE chance.
The American People are watching closely. Continuing to favor Corporate America over 'We The People' will turn the Democratic Party into what the Republican Party has become... A Party of radical extremists and special interest groups. 'We The People' are only "subjects" to Corporate America, and they will never do what is best for us. The merger between Corporate America and the Government has been a total failure, and the American People want their government back.

President Obama, you've been thrown the ball. Now is the time to put up or shut up. You have one shot for 'We The People,' and passing it off to Corporate America, who has money riding on a loss, will not win the game.

The American People are watching and waiting Mr. President. This is the moment you've practiced and waited for your entire life.

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Warren DeMontague Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-28-09 07:16 PM
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24. I voted "too early", but I have trouble envisioning a scenario where I don't support the guy.
Doesn't mean it couldn't happen, but...
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Mike 03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-28-09 07:20 PM
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26. Honesty forces me to vote for "too early," but my heart tells me that I will be very content with
Obama and almost surely will support him if he chooses to run again.

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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-28-09 07:20 PM
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27. This question is sofa king stupid. What are we - 80 days into a 4 year term?
:rofl:
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CatholicEdHead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-28-09 07:23 PM
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28. Considering the mess the GOP Primary will give us
Palin/Jindal anyone? It should be an easy choice to stay with Obama/Biden in 2012 barring any major events or a total collapse. There is a good faith effort being made to turn things around and it is way early, remember W had 8 years to screw us up.
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ulysses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-28-09 07:24 PM
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29. hasn't even come to thinking about it.
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MadMaddie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-28-09 07:27 PM
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30. I am sorry but why is this a question now after 3 months?
I think it's time for many of the critics to apply for jobs in WA and start helping to fix the problems that exist.

There are many qualified people here at DU who can make an impact.

I think there are many right wing hacks on DU right now and they are stirring up divisiveness and will never ever have anything good to say about this administration. We figured out who they were in the past and we should do the same now....
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-28-09 07:28 PM
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31. IMPEACHMENT NOW! We can't wait until 2012! 60 days in!!!
Loud noises!!
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