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The problem with Barack is that he is not nearly socialist enough. He should have gone Lenin on Romney's ass, then we have something to talk about.
Until then people can stuff it with their socialism hatred.
In fact, my father who never paid any attention to politics and just started now is leaning towards Romney because he thought Obama wasn't assertive enough (sigh)...and because he is angry that Obama (or the entire US government, really) gave so much money to the big banks, who promptly stashed the cash, when people like him -- us -- suffered.
I'm trying to convince him that the latter objection is going to be much, much worse under a proper Republican government, that the pressure of ridiculous health insurance we face everyday is part of what's going on, and that it's really to our family's economic disadvantage if the robber baron activity goes any further. He is not inherently anti-government, moreover he favors Obama's foreign policy (as immigrants, i.e. part of the rest of the world, we knew full well how hated Bush was by everybody not on the F'YEAH AMURIKA high), it's just that he started paying attention to this year's election politics right *at* the moment that Mr. Romney did his most dramatic chameleon shifting yet and President Obama is at his worst for some reason.
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