Why Do Republicans Appear To Be So Disrespectful to President Obama?

I think Virginia is quickly turning into a leans Blue state to be honest(baiscally I think much better chance Dems win Virginia then they do Ohio or Florida in 2016)
Virginia is still a center-right state. Obama has been winning in those states because of the increasing prominence of NOVA and his excellent black turnout operation, but the rest of the state is prime Republican country.

The GOP has the majority of seats in Virginia's legislature. The have the majority of Virginia's House of Representative seats by a rather large margin. Tim Kaine most likely would not have won his Senate seat if he didn't run during a Presidential year. Mark Warner is Senator because of his appeal to Republican leaning demographics. The reason why Terry McAuliffe is governor there is because of the scandals of Bob McDonnell and Ken Cuccinelli stupidly deciding to allow the image of him being an extremist social warrior.

I basically view Virginia the same way I do Florida. While Democrats can win there, it's a place where Republicans should be the favorite as long as a statewide candidate isn't scandal-plagued or an idiot. Ohio on the other hand, I see as more of a right leaning Pennsylvania. A real centrist state where moderate Republicans and populist/Clintonian Democrats win.
 
Virginia is still a center-right state. Obama has been winning in those states because of the increasing prominence of NOVA and his excellent black turnout operation, but the rest of the state is prime Republican country.

Between 2000-2010 the population of Virginia increased by 1M people(and has increased roughly 300k since then), i think that increase of population has been bad for Republicans since it seems like alot non black minorities are moving their(ie Hispanic and Asians). The bigger the Washington DC metro area gets the worse it will be for Republicans. it's not as much about people's opinions changing, it's just the demographics of the state are.

Going by percentage Virginia had more votes for Democrat then Floria, Colorado and Ohio last election(2012)

If I was a democrat strategist I would invest more time and money into Virgina then Florida(Florida to me is nothing more then a money pit, it will never be that state that brings the Democrats over the 271 threshold, it will always be the state they win if they get 300+ electoral votes). Personally if I was a Democrat strategist I would get people into Florida to push splitting the state, that would be a huge electoral victory for the Democrats. lol
 
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I wouldn't say that they're Archie Bunker type racists, but it's an assessment that's fair. Personally, I don't think that the GOP is racist (hateful KKK type or ignorant Archie Bunker type), I just think that they're completely blind and oblivious to the problems that are facing black America. I think that if they experienced first hand the issues that black America has to deal with, I think it would open up most of their eyes.

I think both parties are oblivious to the problems that are facing black America.
 
I think both parties are oblivious to the problems that are facing black America.
Actually I think that Democrats are very aware of the problems that are facing black America. The problem is that since they have the black vote in the bag, there really is no motivation to try and fix it. And instead of actually trying to produce solutions, they just take advantage of the situation to try and increase black turnout in their favor. I often debate with myself over which is worse: the one that is obliviously blind or the one that is aware but does nothing?
 
Between 2000-2010 the population of Virginia increased by 1M people(and has increased roughly 300k since then), i think that increase of population has been bad for Republicans since it seems like alot non black minorities are moving their(ie Hispanic and Asians). The bigger the Washington DC metro area gets the worse it will be for Republicans. it's not as much about people's opinions changing, it's just the demographics of the state are.
But the DC suburbs in Virginia are ripe opportunity for Republicans. If the GOP can make gains in Loudoun, Prince William, and Fairfax Counties, it would really hurt the Democrats in the state. Unfortunately things like their extreme social views and the government shut down hurts the GOP in the NOVA region.

Going by percentage Virginia had more votes for Democrat then Floria, Colorado and Ohio last election(2012)
Virginia actually surprised many because most had expected it to go Romney's way. But the black turnout in the Hampton Roads area pulled it through for him.

If I was a democrat strategist I would invest more time and money into Virgina then Florida(Florida to me is nothing more then a money pit, it will never be that state that brings the Democrats over the 271 threshold, it will always be the state they win if they get 300+ electoral votes). Personally if I was a Democrat strategist I would get people into Florida to push splitting the state, that would be a huge electoral victory for the Democrats. lol
I think splitting Florida is as dumb as efforts to split Virginia and New York.
 
I think splitting Florida is as dumb as efforts to split Virginia and New York.

Dumb for the people of Florida, great for the rest of the country. Once Florida becomes a non factor in elections we all will be better off. All that being said Yeah I really don't see it happening. In the case of Virginia, every hear of West Virginia :P

On the subject of splitting states do we honestly need 2 Dakotas
 
Dumb for the people of Florida, great for the rest of the country. Once Florida becomes a non factor in elections we all will be better off. All that being said Yeah I really don't see it happening. In the case of Virginia, every hear of West Virginia :P
Which happened due to the circumstances of this little thing called the Civil War.
 
Which happened due to the circumstances of this little thing called the Civil War.

I am just saying it happened before, but I wouldn't do for it now(unlike with Florida which honestly needs to be split up). In terms of Virginia, I think they should take the bulk of Washington DC and make it either parts of Virginia or Maryland(basically you can make places like the white house or the Pentagon part of it's own district but take the heavily populated areas and give them better representation). I am guessing the bulk of people would be moved into Maryland

It's ridiculous that people in that city have to have congress make rules for them
 
I say keep DC, but fix the rules that give districts better representation in Congress. Like full House Representation plus one Senator.
 
I say keep DC, but fix the rules that give districts better representation in Congress. Like full House Representation plus one Senator.

I just think skimming off heavily populated(but nothing to do with government buildings) areas easier. I will admit that extra Senator thing works to :P

All that being said they could also just allow it's city council to control the laws and rules without Big Government interference getting in the way. it's sort of stupid the city is basically run by the will of the House majority when nobody there voted 1 of them into office.
 
Actually I think that Democrats are very aware of the problems that are facing black America. The problem is that since they have the black vote in the bag, there really is no motivation to try and fix it. And instead of actually trying to produce solutions, they just take advantage of the situation to try and increase black turnout in their favor. I often debate with myself over which is worse: the one that is obliviously blind or the one that is aware but does nothing?

I understand what you are saying, but IMO, if you are not going about fixing the problem, but only doing those things that keep people needy, rather than doing those things that set them on a path of independence, doesn't matter how much you talk about it, you truly are not AWARE....
 
I understand what you are saying, but IMO, if you are not going about fixing the problem, but only doing those things that keep people needy, rather than doing those things that set them on a path of independence, doesn't matter how much you talk about it, you truly are not AWARE....
I think that they are truly aware, they just want to use the situation fully to their advantage.
 
I think we can say that Republicans are aware as well, it is pretty hard not to be...but the choices of dealing with it are different. At least in general terms they are as aware as any other person.

Just from listening to the conservative radio in Houston, Republicans are VERY AWARE of problems facing minorities today. What they speak out against is not that they shouldn't get help, or don't deserve help, it is that the help should be a something that helps them "move out" of that life, rather than something that "keeps them there". And they simply have a different opinion of how that should take place.

But, when you have "big mouths" within both parties using the media to spew crap, then that is usually what ends up being heard.
 
They're disrespectful because he's kicked their asses and shown them that their money doesn't make them omnipotent..
 
You realize that Obama raised slightly more money than Romney right?

Correct. Obama's legacy I think will be a poor one. The debt he has past on to the next generation, combined with an aging population that is living longer is a train wreck waiting to happen. One can not have their house leveraged to the hilt. How bad is it? And what if Iran gets nukes and sells them or uses them? Back to the debt:


#1 The Obama administration is now projecting that the federal budget deficit for this year will be an all-time record $1.645 trillion dollars.

#2 The budget deficit for this year alone will end up being well over 10 percent of GDP. That is an absolutely nightmarish level.

#3 Currently, the accumulated national debt of the U.S. government has reached a grand total of $15,732,550,307,190.53.

#4 If you divided the national debt up equally among all U.S. households, each one would owe a staggering $126,975.18.

#5 The federal government has borrowed 29,660 more dollars per household since Barack Obama signed the economic stimulus law two years ago.

#6 During Barack Obama's first two years in office, the U.S. government added more to the U.S. national debt than the first 100 U.S. Congresses combined.

#7 In the new budget that the Obama administration has proposed, the U.S. government would spend 3.7 trillion dollars in 2012 and by 2021 the U.S. government would be spending a whopping 5.6 trillion dollars per year.

#8 The U.S. government currently has to borrow approximately41 cents of every single dollar that it spends.

#9 The total compensation that the federal government workforce earned last year came to a grand total ofapproximately 447 billion dollars.

#10 The U.S. national debt is currently rising by well over 4 billion dollars every single day.

#11 The U.S. government is borrowing over 2 million more dollars every single minute.

#12 The U.S. national debt is over 14 times larger than it was just 30 years ago.

#13 Unfunded liabilities for entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare are estimated to be well over $100 trillion, and nobody in the U.S. government seems to have any idea how we are actually even going to come close to meeting all of those obligations.

#14 If you were alive when Christ was born and you spent one million dollars every single day since that point, you still would not have spent one trillion dollars by now.

#15 If the federal government began right at this moment to repay the U.S. national debt at a rate of one dollar per second, it would take over 440,000 years to pay off the national debt.
 
A lot of those points you make, really don't matter. If anything, if we paid off the National Debt, the global economy would most likely collapse.
 
yeah going on and on about the debt usually belies an understanding of economic policy
 
In other words you can't find 1 direct quote from Obama or the Obama administration and just drink the koolaid of the conservative media that says he said negative things about Bibi or Israel.


I know you want a direct quote but anyone involved in politics will not allow themselves to be directly quoted. All of it is second hand. But at the same time calling a Head of State Chicken **** however unofficially doesn't help relations. The President's foreign policy in his 2nd term is turning into a failure. You can only ride on the PR glory of Bin Laden's death for so long!
 
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There's a difference between what Israel is doing and what the other Arab nations are doing. A lot of these things come down to how these countries don't want refugees in their borders. This is typical behavior of how nation-states act. The United States tries to catch Cuban refugees before they reach shore or else they can stay in the US. China works to keep the two Koreas separate mostly out of fear of a flood of Korean refugees that could come to them. Turkey is pissed that the ISIS conflict is creating Syrian refugee camps in their borders.

Countries really don't want to fully accept refugees because they don't want to take care of them when they have their own problems at home and their own citizens to take care of. Do you have any idea how politically toxic it is to just blindly accept refugees with open arms? And they don't like refugee camps forming along their borders because they typically turn into "permanent" settlements that are crappy and look bad. Also, members of the Arab League are forbidden to grant them citizenship to begin with, so it's not like they're doing it out of cruelty, they have no choice but to deny them.

You don't think that the Arab League wants to use the Palestinians for political reason against the Israel and their Allies?
 
You don't think that the Arab League wants to use the Palestinians for political reason against the Israel and their Allies?
Oh without a doubt. But it still doesn't change the fact that a lot of what other Arab nations are doing to the Palestinians is essentially the exact same thing other countries treat refugees. Blindly accepting refugees is politically toxic no matter what country you're in.
 
To me white republicans are the ones that take the most issue with the president and most of the American people that agree with republicans are white as well. Go on social media and look at an article talking about the president or government. You will see the most ignorant and racist stuff you ever see. You would think we are back in like the 1940's or something. They hide their racism under the guise of disagreeing with his policies. Now this isn't the case for all republicans some just disagree with his policies but for most his race has a hand in their hatred as well.

That's like saying the left disrespected bush because he was white .
 

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