I don't care if 100% of the people wanted to. People used to believe the world was flat. People used to believe the world was 6000 years old. When the majority of people thought that slavery was moral, that didn't make it moral. When the majority thought that blacks shouldn't marry whites, that didn't make it right. The majority of Republicans think Saddam had WMD; that he had something to do with 9/11. That doesn't make them true. It doesn't make me mad at all. I just shows that people don't care about facts. It shows that people have a different set of principles for a republican war monger than they do for a democratic war monger. Just as even if 100% of the people believed the earth were flat, wouldn't make it flat. Just as even if 100% of the people believed Obama to be a Muslim, that would not make him a Muslim. The fact is: the earth is not flat, it's round. The fact is Obama is not a Muslim, he's a Christian.
Similarly, the fact that he has an approval of 75%-80% among liberals means one thing: that he has an approval rating of 75%-80% among liberals. That, however, doesn't make him a liberal. I will bet of those 75%-80%, nearly 100% of them would be against indefinite detention (
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/07/AR2011030704871.html), detaining individuals acquitted in courts (
http://news.antiwar.com/2009/07/07/not-guilty-no-guarantee-obama-administration-will-release-detainees/), cutting programs for the poor (
http://www.tampabay.com/news/localgovernment/as-obama-announces-cuts-in-block-grants-local-officials-calculate-aftermath/1151595; http://www.npr.org/2011/02/27/134058899/proposed-cuts-to-block-grants-spark-outrage-panic), rendition (
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/4425135/Barack-Obama-to-allow-anti-terror-rendition-to-continue.html), torture (
http://cageprisoners.com/our-work/opinion-editorial/item/1419-bagram-and-beyond-new-revelations-about-secret-us-torture-prisons-in-afghanistan;http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,650324,00.html;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8674179.stm).
Obama is not against torture, rendition, indefinite detention, jailing acquitted accused persons, etc. Mad, no, I'm not mad. But, the fact is, the emperor has no clothes and this man is just another George Bush in a lot of areas. I know I won't have that blood on my hands after 2012. You can't say the same thing.