Thanks to Barak Obama I will almost certainly never have to listen to Hillary Clinton deliver a State of the Union Address. Regardless of how much I hate much of what he’s done and am sure to hate much of what’s to come, for that I will always be grateful.

-exits

One of my friends said that Hillary would have been the Nixon of the left. The thought is chilling.

Barack Obama has proven that Americans will not exclude anyone from the presidency based upon race.

Here’s another:

Barack Obama has caused me to come out of my own complacency and truly examine my beliefs and question what I’m willing to do to stand for them. He has made me more politically aware than I’ve ever been in my life: I’m not paying attention, after years of taking things for granted.

And that’s a good thing as far as I’m concerned. Other than that, he’s re-energized conservatives and for that I thank him profoundly.

But where I sincerely think he excels is in making clear the left’s extreme view of government. If McCain had been elected we would have continued a slow slid to the left. Now, the American people (if the haze of adoration lifts) will see and experience the most dramatic effects of not just bigger government but an all powerful government. Specifically, Obama’s view of an all knowing government. At that point there will be a very clear choice. An ever more powerful central government (based on the elitist view that the people can’t and shouldn’t make any decisions for themselves) or a return to more limited government and thus the personal freedom envisioned by our founders.

At this point, I’m not confident the American people will make the right choice but I do believe the Obama administration is going to make the decision clear.

I would content this is something that could “help” our nation and therefore the world or it could very well go the other way.

He is actually married to the mother of his children. In this respect he has shown good personal responsibility. We need more role models like this for both the minority community as well as society as a whole.

He did get many of us to wake up to the Fabian socialism occurring in this nation.

He did show us that collectivists are incapable of honestly paying their taxes.

He did show us that Americans can drink a lot of Koolaid, just like other societies.

He picked a cute dog.

Guess, that’s about it.

has done a great job of trashing our economic system

He’s done a great job of setting up terrorists to be sent to black holes in other countries for torture, rather than being honestly detained at Guantanamo bay.

if you like that kind of thing.

There isn’t one I can point to.

With Clinton, there actually were legitimate things, here and there, that I could point about either him or his policies that I could say were “good” (or, at least, that elicited grudging admiration).

But with Obama, Carter and Johnson, it’s *zero* – there’s not one good thing the latter two did, and not one good thing the former is doing, or will do.

Well, actually, there is one thing – during the Clinton era, I was one of those who became overly fixated on the Clintons (probably because the GOP actually controlled Congress for most of the time), which made me not pay enough attention to many of the other real ‘bad actors’ among the Democrat Party.

What I can say is that now, with Obama, my personal animosity isn’t very focused on him, but *is* very focused on Democrat politicians, Democrats as a whole, and Obama supporters in general.

So, I guess, if there’s one good thing to come out of this – it’s that I’ve realized the “problem” is much bigger than just Obama, and is going to involve taking a whole lot more people *down* than just him.

But, I suspect, this wasn’t the kind of answer you were hoping for…

has supported welfare payments to terrorists released from Guantanamo.

He’s done a fantastic job being a bitter partisan and helping me engage Republican unity.

He’s done a bang-up job aiding the anti-tax movement by surrounding himself with tax cheats.

He’s done a heckuva a job humiliating tax-and-spend Democrats with his unfathomably large deficit.

did not succeed in completely hiding his socialist core. A smidgin of truth peeped out to allow the informed to be onto him before the election.

Some would say it wasn’t really honesty but pride in his communistic beliefs. Whatever, at least he hasn’t been able to fool all the people all the time.

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has alienated pretty much every corporate board of directors in the country. Now THAT takes a level of malignant efficiency that our side would be very hard-pressed to match. He’s also offended and threatened quite a few of his own large campaign donors.

Quite the people person, isn’t he?

has apologized, on our behalf, for all the mean nasty things we’ve been doing to them.

just attempted to dissuade all of those ASU grads from aspiring to go after my job. I appreciate that.

If he would just have told us where they are it would have been helpful.