re: Democratic party played by Obama?

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His left has a strong federal government that actually prefers the NSA and other spying techniques so he can keep us safe from ourselves

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Safe from ourselves? Meaning that the American people aren't to be trusted and an all seeing government must monitor and control their actions and thoughts?

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He also, as has been spouted on this board till the cows come home, is a big advocate for taxation and government welfare type programs. People often refer to this as income redistribution.

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Before it can be re distributed, it must be confiscated even if through illegal means.

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And he is shortsighted.

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You are being way too kind.

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That all being said, I think the republicans have drifted further over to the right than before as well. Hell, we have political candidates saying that the earth could be 6k years old and that ID should be taught in the school. We have moronic candidates who say that women get pregnant when raped because they want to get pregnant.

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All of whom command a very tiny slice of the Republican constituency but are useful to the left as a scare tactic.

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I think both sides have drifted further apart, perhaps because the moderates of each party often do not get involved in the primaries and thus you have the really political people getting involved driving the candidates further and further from the middle.

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Can't disagree with that.