Obama's job approval

[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by Coach Pants

Really there is no hope for change in this country. (See what I did there?)

Judging from the poll results to this thread the majority of us are conditioned to the two-party system. That system has prohibited you from having the choice to marry. How you could be a supporter of it is beyond me. You, out of all people, should abhor it as much as I do.

I'm not a real huge fan of the way things are going right now, just not for the same reasons as some other people are.

I actually am quite fine with admitting that I sit around and talk about how f*cked this country is on a regular basis.

But in all honesty, how do you suggest we break free of a two-party system? How does that look? How does that happen?

And it's a cop-out based on the way the current system works, but given that I think we're f*cked right now, I can only imagine how bad a spell we'd be in if the election had gone the other way. Biden is an idiot. Palin is a menace.

And so yea, I'm unfortunately happy to take the lesser of the two evils...given the choices, I'm a huge Obama fan. But I'd admittedly be perfectly comfortable with someone even more to his left, so I'm especially out in the cold as a ZOMG SOCIALIST.

And yea, to finally be at the point in my life where DOMA *actually* hurts me and isn't just some hypothetical "wow having marriage be legal would be great" situation. I'm especially fed up right now, because while I have the money to get partner benefits for someone right now, I unfortunately don't have the money to pay the extra taxes on the premiums my company pays for him because it's considered taxable income for me. An extra $75/mo premium costs nearly three times that when you figure out the extra taxes....so instead, he sits around with splitting migraine headaches, an achy body, and we can't afford to have him see someone.

So yea, I'm pissed off too.