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Why Obama doesn’t deserve to win
Globe and Mail [Canada], by Margaret Wente

Original Article

Posted By:ketchuplover, 11/4/2012 1:58:00 AM

If Barack Obama loses the election, my friend Jim will be one reason why. Four years ago, Jim voted enthusiastically for hope and change. This year, he’s voting for Mitt Romney. “I like Romney,” he says. “When folks saw and listened to him right next to Obama, he looked and spoke more like a president than Obama did.” (Snip) But President Obama isn’t the postpartisan, centrist bridge-builder he told us he would be. “Obama is, in fact, a lefty, and given a free hand we really would become a debt-laden, sinking, entitlement-heavy, socialist basket case,” Jim says.

Comments:
We need more Jims, less Margarets.

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: PChristopher, 11/4/2012 3:26:54 AM     (No. 8986350)

I'm more than a bit tired of people saying that he got dealt a bad hand. He knew what he was walking into; if he didn't like the cards, he should've stayed away from the table. He walked into this to purposely make it worse. There is no punishment so bad that Obama doesn't deserve it.


Reply 2 - Posted by: FunOne, 11/4/2012 5:00:02 AM     (No. 8986406)

It concerns me that people like Jim vote.

Anyone who bought into the warm, fuzzy "Hope and Change" line is not one to value that of substance.

Although, I will allow him and those like him to be smarter today than they were four years ago.


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: eoddad, 11/4/2012 7:06:33 AM     (No. 8986525)

Canadians are usually wrong and this article is NO exception. So author says neither candidate should win. Yea right. Keep looking down your nose as America provides your security.


Reply 4 - Posted by: artman1746, 11/4/2012 8:53:51 AM     (No. 8986731)

One of the best things we could do to save the country today is prevent all 2008 Obama voters from ever voting again. Idiots like Jim and the rest of the Obama voters who based their votes on what Obama "looked like" will use their same dumb qualifications for the highest office in the land in future voting.

Democrats pursue the stupid vote because they are the only ones that will swallow their lies.


Reply 5 - Posted by: Stopstoreload, 11/4/2012 9:45:40 AM     (No. 8986834)

How could you have voted for a person with no business experience, no executive experience and almost no legislative experience?

Additionally if you had a few bucks, he openly promised to take some of them and give them to someone else.


Reply 6 - Posted by: Lucky4, 11/4/2012 11:17:55 AM     (No. 8987070)

I notice now many lefies have fallen into the, neither side is good. There is no difference etc..
This is how they make themselves feel better I think.



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