I think that many people are wayyyy too stuck on the labels in politics ... instead of looking at individual issues ... I know people that both hate and love the president that would actually agree with each other on almost every single issue ... but they’re stuck on the label of democrat or republican ... I am neither ... because I balance each issue and politician as they stand alone ... I also am over the name calling, stone throwing, and bullying based on the labels ... if you want to criticize the other side use hard facts ... not rumors .. and not just some derogatory statement ... remember that these people were elected to office ... so the majority of the people wanted them there ... I also find it interesting how people don't understand how the three branches of our government work and blame one branch when another is to blame ... or really all of them ... because it's designed to have checks and balances ... and it does ... I guess all and all I am proud to be an American (especially today) ... and proud of our abilities to be free and make choices ... and that is what we should do ... not just say ... oh he's good or bad based on his political party or some rumor we heard ... we have a right in this country to think for ourselves ... and to vote on that ... to follow any political party blindly is really quite idiotic … regardless of which party you affiliate yourself with …. If you want to call the president (whether Bush or Obama or whatever president present, past or future it happens to be) an idiot or stupid or unpatriotic … be able to back it up … but actually … in a more intelligent manner … why don’t you start with your back up … and not lower yourself to name calling … or to uninformed statements …
I have seen so much lately where the president has been blamed for things he has no control over … and things that are twisted and contorted to a point that they’re nearly unrecognizable …. One of the biggest is that Obama wants to cut military pay … where on earth did anyone get this from? … he vowed not to freeze military pay along with other federal pay (despite heavy protesting from several democratic congressmen) … and he proposed a 1.4% increase in pay which while smaller than usual is in line with the mathematical equation that every president since 1972 has used … with one exception … when Clinton was president and he proposed no pay increase for military … but guess what? Guess who has the real power on this subject? … The legislative branch … not the executive branch … when Clinton proposed no pay raise … congress went
