Now do you understand why so many of us termed our vote as being for the lesser of two evils?

[Sekhmets Daughter]

21. Then consider yourself warned.

I was just coming back to add this to my reply: "I do understand your frustration, but all elections come down to choosing the lesser of 2 evils. I have been infuriated over the years and ranted myself"

I am not defending Obama or the slashing of benefits, however my COLA raise will be $13. next year and that certainly doesn't seem worth cutting off my nose to spite my face. As a woman, I can never support a party that wants to reduce my younger sisters to second class citizens, or allow them to do so because I failed to support the Democrat running. As a compassionate and tolerant person I cannot allow the republicans to reverse the rights already won by the LGBT community or prevent them from winning those rights on a national level. As a rational individual I cannot allow another Scalia or Alito to be appointed to the SCOTUS or to see the nation turned into a theocracy. So there are many reasons I hold my nose and vote for the lesser of 2 evils....Elections have always been choices between the lesser of 2 evils because most of the nation lives in the middle of the political spectrum. Just think of all the GOP primary voters who held their noses and voted for Romney.... All we on the outer reaches can do is try to move the party along in the direction we prefer.

I think you are forgetting that these negotiations are not just about taxes and social security. 3 million Americans stand to lose their unemployment benefits if Obama allows us to go over the cliff. While the cliff holds no terror for me, I bet those 3 million people are losing sleep right now.

As to Clinton: I was shocked by Clinton's welfare reform, however as I have never received welfare of any type it hasn't effected me in any way. Clinton was better than G H W Bush and much better than Perot would have been.