Detriment of the country? What would be the benefit of voting for Obama again? Four more years of this? All he has to run on now is juvenile and asinine class warfare. What can he run on? What can he point to as a success? And with democrats overplaying the race card, nobody in the party's got the guts to run against him.
As far as DADT, shall we overlook the fact that he fought tooth and nail, while smearing gays, to keep it?
If you vote for a republican you won't get four more years of 'this', you'll get four years that make 'this' look like a picnic. Things are as bad as they are because Republicans have put a cog in the wheel of democracy by refusing to compromise or even to pass their own ideas when Obama suggests we do that so as to at least do SOMETHING. Every idea on Obama's jobs plan is a Republican idea, they won't even let Obama have it their way, let along his way! And yes, a crippled government is VERY detrimental to the country.
When did Obama smear gays? Can you give me the quote? A link to the speech on YouTube? Anything to back that up?
When it comes to smearing gays, the Republicans are the MASTERS of it - again, if you think Obama was anti gay, WOW, how you'll wish for his stance if the Republicans get in! They are all vowing to re-introduce DADT, and they booed a gay soldier at one of their recent debates.
Yes, Obama is not perfect, yes, he is frankly a disappointment, yes, he has failed to bring America as far forward as we all expected him to, and indeed as he promised he would, but he hasn't brought it backwards. His health reform makes things better, but not right, his Wall St. reform makes things better but not right, and he did not get rid of DADT as quickly as we wanted, but he did get rid of it.
Lets keep some perspective folks - all the republicans, except perhaps Ron Paul, hate our guts and want to push back the rights we have manage to get, and absolutely positively not let us get any more!
A gay person voting republican is like a Jew voting for Hitler - a serious case of stockholm syndrome!
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