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The Best Reason to Vote Against Obama: Self-Defense

Laura359 Wrote: May 03, 2012 9:28 AM
Really? Well, let's see - "I'm old enough now that MY interest and defense is offered solely in support of MY children, grandchildren, etc." Don't the words "I" and "my" reflect self-interest equally? If you didn't have any offspring, and you weren't an American, would you feel the same way? Of course you are looking out for what's best for yourself. What's wrong with that?

When a U.S. Senator and a sitting governor from your own party won’t say if they support the reelection bid of the incumbent president from their party, well, that’s a political party that is verging into Jimmy Carter territory.

Party-wise that is.

Carter faced an insurgent bid from Hubert Humphrey progressives in his own party while vying for a second term as president. The result was a nasty primary contest that spilled into the Democrat National Convention in 1980.

And while the roles this time are reversed with incumbent Obama playing the part of insurgent progressive against the rest of us,...

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