Reply #14: I will vote Obama, but I will no longer donate or campaign like I did last time...

[Rabblevox]

Although I started off last time as a Clinton supporter, when it became clear that Obama would be the Dem. nominee, I gave dollars and many hours of my time to his campaign. His victory speech in Chicago gave me chills, and will go down in history as one of the most eloquent political speeches ever.

No Fucking More!

He has proven to be a corpratist, Wall-Street tool, who does not give one rat-shit about ordinary Americans, has no interest in ending the wars, and will bend over to be the bankers bitch any time they whistle.

I'm pretty sure that in 100 years he will be rated one of the weakest, worst, US presidents ever. (Yup, worse than Cleveland, Hoover, Grant, and Jackson)

And yet I have to fucking vote for him. There are no other options. I wish I could vote for Nixon (who's record is startlingly liberal)

I wish we had a viable 3rd party. I wish we had IRV. I wish the electoral college had been abolished decades ago. I wish that corporations weren't people, and that money did not equal speech.

But "wish in one hand, shit in the other".

I fucking hate to say this, but he is the lesser of evils.

I'll vote for him again, dear god forgive me.