I like Bernie but If Hillary wins the primary I’ll vote Hillary. I love y'all but if you let Christie or Trump become president because you wanted to throw a tantrum over Hillary winning primaries I will personally punch every other registered voter in the face. I had to suffer through eight years of a republican president I didn’t elect and I won’t do it again.
I’ll have at least four years to work my way through a punching list don’t think I won’t try it.
But Obama isn’t republican..unless you’re talking about a different president?
yes dear child, I was alive during the years 2000-2008, when President George W. Bush was president-elect. I don’t say this to be rude because you’re 16, and you don’t know, because you couldn’t have known, but now it is my faithful duty to tell you so you are informed as to why we (I) hate Republicans. You may not know him very well, but here’s a picture:
It’s an understatement to say that the Mission, was in fact, not accomplished. Â
He’s the guy that Obama replaced in large part because everyone hated George W. Bush. Why?:
Despite extensive warnings of incoming threats, Bush took no action to prevent 9/11 from happening, leading several respectable political science scholars to indicate that Bush was at least partially responsible for the attacks actually occurring (if not wholly responsible for not preventing them)
actually let’s remember that when he was immediately alerted to the attack, he continued to read a children’s story to elementary schoolers and then Air Force one and himself were gone for several hours after the attack.Â
he turned an inherited budget surplus into a 1.2 trillion dollar deficit.
a small deficit is one thing! 1.2 trillion dollars is NOT SMALL. Bill Clinton did have some part in the lead-up to a failing economy but Bush….Bush destroyed it.
The entire 2008 collapse began while he was still in office and basically did nothing about it. This wasn’t just an American collapse. This was a world-wide financial collapse that happened because American banks were failing (in large part due to massive amounts of tax-cuts and de-regulation put forth by Bush!). It triggered a world-wide collapse. He was partially responsible for our country’s second great depression.Â
He is 100% responsible for the mishandling of Hurricane Katrina and the guy Kanye West was referring to when he said “George Bush hates black people.”Â
the war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan, the “war on Terror”
LAUNCHING WARS WITHOUT CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL
the entire existence of Guantanamo Bay
the Patriot Act
his own party wanted nothing to do with him in 2008Â
heckuva job, brownie
waterboarding
….he literally stole the election in 2000Â
pulled us out of the kyoto protocal to deal with global warming problems
US troops given faulty, or unsafe gear
Abu Gharib prison and all other crimes of war already mentioned here or not mentioned
War profiteering! The list of top Bush administration officials whose former corporate employers made billions in Pentagon contracts starts with Vice-President Dick Cheney and Halliburton, which made $39.5 billion, and included his daughter, Liz Cheney, who ran a $300 million Middle East partnership program.
cutting veteran’s health care benefitsÂ
pardoning Scooter Libby
cut and froze pell grants for poor students
no child left behind act is the reason why you probably have to take those god forsaken dumb standardized tests for no real GOOD reason
Reporters analyzing Bush’s record found that he took off 1,020 days in two four-year terms—more than one out of every three days. No other modern president comes close. Bush also set the record for the longest vacation among modern presidents—five weeks, the Washington Post noted.  Â
i could keep listing shit for days honestly but i won’t
suffice to say: George W. Bush is the worst president I lived through, he is the worst president in the last 50 years, and his blatant incompetence and failures are why the Republican party is rapidly devouring itself like a crazed ouroboros and might try to elect Trump. He is the reason why Stephen Colbert parodied the right as satire – why The Daily Show gained huge amounts of relevance, why the rest of the world hated us for a good eight years solid, why huge amounts of various civil and constitutional rights were literally eroded and denied to us, why we’re so in the debt hole even now, and why i registered Democrat when I turned 18, because honestly fuck the entire Republican party. Burn it to the ground and salt the earth.Â
Every. Damn. Word.
Hillary is not entitled to our votes. I survived Bush I can survived Drumpf. A large portion of Bernie’s support are not people who identify as Democrats but those who identify as Independent much like Bernie himself has for most of his career.
Those of us so identified are not comfortable voting for an Establishment candidate. So it’s only natural for us to go back to our natural voting habits. Also the longer you’ve been a Bernie support the more you feel there has be active attempts by the DNC and media to shut down his campaign, from just ignoring it to out right fraud and dirty tricks. The latest being that the DNC installed people directly associated with HRC in local grassroots movements in NC that went out of their way to reduce Bernie’s voice in the state. To expect us to turn around and vote for the figurehead of lies and deceit that is HRC is silly at best.
And not only that but the things that draw us to Bernie are not present at all on HRC side. Independents have spent their life backing third party candidates that don’t have a chance but align with our beliefs why would we change now.
you’re second on my list of people to punch thanks for offering.Â
Did Bernie himself not say that on their worst days he AND HILARY are better than the GOP candidates.
While he was standing next to her.
Explicitely including her in that statement.
If Bernie loses he’s not going to want his supports to flock the Trump what the hell
also “I survived Bush, I can survive Drumpf” BULLY FOR YOU. CONGRATULATIONS
have a little empathy for the people who will not survive the steady erosion of their social safety network
 because every time a compassionless bully like Trump or Cruz or Bush gets in charge, people suffer
you never owe anybody your vote
but people are getting assaulted at Trump rallies while he fans the flames of racism and xenophobia
and if that doesn’t scare the bejebus out of you
you are not a safe human to be around
What about the argument that Obama and the Clintons are only distinguishable from the Bushes in tone? Because Obama for sure was as bad as Bush when it came to interventionist warfare and the erosion of our civil liberties.
to the suggestion that there’s no difference between obama and w, check out where obama is right this very moment:
in cuba, ending one of the longest foreign policy disputes in american history.
not to mention obamacare, repealing DADT, fair pay for women, the stimulus bill, the iranian nuclear deal, the paris climate accords, and two liberal supreme court justices.
are there deep disappointments of obama’s presidency? surely. but if you think these last eight years have been  indistinguishable from the eight that came before, you haven’t been paying attention.
