obama 2012 (?????)

[cacophony]

Originally Posted by Strangelet

will you vote for obama (hypothetically even) ?
do you think he will win?
do you think he deserves to win?

how can these questions be answered only 2 years into his 4 year term? a better question is if he were up for reelection NOW, would you vote for him blahblahblah.

i think he'd win. "deserve" to win is too loaded to answer, and seeing as there are no republican candidates who have appealed to me recently i'd probably vote for him again.

which is not to imply i was over the moon thrilled with my options during the last election. my vote was mostly based on my approval of joe biden. and following the election i've been mostly disappointed with obama's unwillingness to repeal or revise important civil rights violations and information restrictions enacted during the bush admin. he's prioritized things like don't ask don't tell, and while i feel that's an important issue it's not half or even a quarter as important as most of the pressing issues of today. so i feel like he's taking these easy wins on the smaller issues and refusing to deal with the big issues that affect our fundamental freedoms. which means the vast majority of his policymaking has been maintaining the status quo.

still, in an election it's a matter of who the alternate choice is. i haven't seen anyone i'd prefer at this point. which is unfortunate.

i just wish obama was more obamaish and less bushish.