Dissonance Chords & Dissenting Opinion

Am I missing something?

No, really, I want to know. Why are there still people are there supporting Barack Obama?

I understand that there are leftwing moonbats out there who are going to love him no matter what just because of his race. I understand that there are fools out there who aren’t going to be able to see past his charm. But what about everyone else?

What has he done, and succeeded at, that makes people love him so much?

The first thing he did when he got into office was attempt to close Gitmo. While some disagreed with this move, it was still a promising action. He wasn’t going to waste any time, things were going to start moving forward right away.

Except that there was nowhere to put the detainees. The only other countries willing to take the prisoners weren’t exactly countries where we wanted those prisoners to be. There was a huge outcry against allowing them on American soil, and now it appears that Gitmo won’t be closing anytime soon. As much as the effort had seemed promising, all it ended up doing was show that Obama doesn’t think his actions through very well.

So I don’t understand. This isn’t the only issue. When the Perez Hilton vs. Miss California debacle was at its peak, one of the biggest arguments in Miss California’s favor was that the she had the same opinion as the president.

This was something her Obama-loving haters ignored entirely, even though it’s the truth.

I know people who voted for Obama because they believed he was the most gay-rights-friendly presidential candidate in history. Where they got that idea from, I have no idea. I’d never heard him say anything about gay rights during the election season. I know that a lot of gays and gay-friendlys were up in arms about Sarah Palin, despite, uh…

tl;dw: 2:45 is where Joe Biden says, “If that’s the case, we really don’t have a difference.”

Sarah responds: “Your question to him was whether he supported gay marriage, and my answer is the same as his, and it is that I do not.”

Or you could just watch this:

Hear a difference? I don’t.

The only thing Obama has done for the gay community is give gay employees of the government equal benefits. To be honest, that’s about all he can do without Congress’s approval, and in my opinion, that makes it a moot gesture since it’s hardly even trying. The only reason he did do it is because there was some backlash against him from the gay community for not getting involved in or making a statement on the NOH8 campaign.

I’m constantly stunned at the things he’s allowed to get away with just because he’s Obama the Crown Prince. Like the bill that would give him the ability to shut off the internet in emergencies. You know what other countries give their leaders that same control? China, North Korea, and Iran. Places that don’t want people to learn outside of their dictator’s curriculum. Places that try to keep people from speaking out against their esteemed leader, or learning the reasons why they should speak out. Places where those that do speak out are shot in the streets for doing so.

And yet we have people out there saying they think this is a good idea, Obama should definitely be allowed to have that kind of power. Anyone who says this is a hypocrite, because you know if the exact same bill had come up while Bush was in office, there would’ve been a huge outcry of “FACISM!! NAZI!!”

Also, what kind of emergency would require such a thing? I know the truther idiocy spread mostly through the internet, but I don’t really consider that to be a huge threat, and considering Obama’s appointment of Van Jones as a czar, I don’t think he does either. What, exactly, would he be trying to censor? I’d be okay if it was just the government sector. I can understand that, to keep spies and hackers out. But it’s not just the government sector. It’s the public sector too. There’s no reason for the government to have control of that.

The Rasmussen poll shows a steady decline in Obama’s approval ratings. CNN and MSNBC largely ignored the Van Jones story, but still the man resigned. People are slowly but steadily jumping off the Obama bandwagon, as he slowly but steadily reveals more and more of himself to the public. He lied when he called himself bi-partisan, and which is more telling of his personality: that he’s friends with people like Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers, or that he threw them under the bus and denied being even acquaintences with them as soon as those stories started to hurt his chances at being president? Neither is exactly promising.

I truly believe that the only reason more people aren’t angry is because they don’t look past his initial charm. They don’t look past what’s being reported on CNN and MSNBC. They don’t think about how Olbermann and Maddow are using faulty logic and twisted facts, or just miss the point entirely.

It’s time to open your eyes. Obama, at his best, is a selfish narcissist, proving his inexperience and not showing any signs of growing as a leader. At his worst, he’s a Marxist bent on turning America into the next socialist failure.

Either way, it’s not looking good.