Ah, but WHY did you vote for him? If the press had painted him with the same brush they painted Sara Palin, would you have voted for him?
Please recall the savage atmosphere of the 2008 campaign. Mr. Obama was the target of many personal attacks in the media and Internet, some real, some imagined. No one accused Ms. Palin being a socialist, or a communist, or a terrorist sympathizer, or a Muslim, or having her citizenship questioned, nor was the common fist-bump gesture ever mistake by a major network to be some sort of terrorist gesture. Ms. Palin, by contrast, seems to have been mainly the victim of accusations regarding her intelligence. I submit to you that not only were the personal attacks greater against Mr. Obama, but Mr. Obama was better equipped to deal with them. Ms. Palin's stated reason for stepping down from the office of Governor of Alaska, you may recall, was harassment. The fact that Mr. Obama has experienced far greater harassment and has not resigned proves only that he is much stronger in dealing with criticism than Ms. Palin, who seems to be unduly sensitive in that area.
What does the press have to do with it? I agreed with his ideals. I actually agreed with McCain to some degree back in 2000. Would it make you feel better if you thought I'd been hoodwinked by the media to vote for Obama?
You're apparently forgetting about all the attacks having to deal with her religious affiliation and beliefs or the ones made about her children. People on the left made Palin out to be every bit as horrible a person as people on the right did to Obama. In fact, the Democrats were so busy making Palin their boogyman that they eased up on McCain. Actually it had to do with her abuse of power in getting a state trooper fired. Neither of them are particularly good at dealing with it. Obama will go on making stern speeches in order to wag his finger at critics, and Palin is pretty much following suit.
1. Ms. Palin resigned due in part to personal criticism and ethics probes. So in that we are both correct. 2. Mr. Obama also experienced considerable attacks due to his religious affiliation, rather more than Ms. Palin. I also do not know of Ms. Palin being called a racist. 3. Mr. Obama has also not only been charged with ethics violations, but of violating the Constitution itself. Yet he is still in office and shows no inclination at all to resign. Logically, that demonstrates that that he is better able to deal with personal attacks and ethics probes than Ms. Palin, is it not?
If the past ten years have proven anything, it's that both parties have become so polarized and politically extreme that any candidate they produce and support should be immediately disqualified.
No, it proves that Palin has the common sense to not piss away taxpayer dollars on friviolous suits that she was being bombarded with. She just took her ball and went home and I say bully for her. Unfortunately, Barry won't, he'll just keep pissing our money away hand over fist. On that I will agree him the better of the two.
