Anyone you know who voted for Obama having second thoughts?

[clb09]

Or is it too early for them to admit that they made a huge mistake?

 

[LittleLightShining]

I have one confirmed and 2 suspected.

 

[JamesButabi]

Many suspected, but the majority still wont admit to it. I get alot of "his heart is in the right place". "You can tell hes trying". "Hes much better than Bush". Im quite sure the denial will last well into his second term.

 

[kathy88]

Suspected only. Too proud to admit it. Or too afraid to hear I told you so, or whatever. Like I would........ *eg*

 

[LibertyEagle]

Many suspected, but the majority still wont admit to it. I get alot of "his heart is in the right place". "You can tell hes trying". "Hes much better than Bush". Im quite sure the denial will last well into his second term.

That's probably it. What I'm getting a lot of is "I don't watch the news, it's too upsetting". "But yeah, I think Obama is doing a good job".

 

[PatriotLegion]

Too afraid of the I told you so. There are a few that may have voted 3rd party but they still give me that "give him a chance" nonsense.

 

[weslinder]

I know one. A Christopher Buckley type. One of the Ivy League educated conservative elitists who thought, "Obama's smart and well educated, he can't be that liberal, especially after it's shown to be so wrong. Besides, it'd be nice to have someone smart in the White House." He thought that Obama would be a civil libertarian and a moderate on economics. He has fully admitted that he was wrong, and regrets his vote. I told him it didn't matter, he voted in Texas.

 

[Golding]

Too afraid of an "I told you so" that I wouldn't give anyway. Someone gave me the "Still better than Bush" line, and I started describing their similar decisions. No response, of course.

 

[eduardo89]

I'm working on convincing my gf, shes a bit blind though, she won't turn her back on the messiah soon..

 

[Roxi]

i haven't talked to her about it but the lady that owns the restaurant next to my work was taking her Obama bumper sticker off her van a couple weeks ago

 

[Annihilia]

Many confirmed and I find them among the easiest to direct to the liberty movement. As much as I want to say "HAH! I told you so!" for nauseating me with Kool Aid driven campaign rhetoric for half a year, I find that appealing to their values is much more productive.

 

[Working Poor]

Most of the peole I know who voted for him are really worried...

 

[devil21]

Not having second thoughts as in "should have voted for McCain", but yes my best friend is starting to see how indeed all Presidents turn out to be about the same as their predecessor regardless of party or campaign rhetoric. Shes a vegan so she was particularly steamed by Obama's appointment of Vilsack (Monsanto shill) and that started the ball rolling in her head.

 

[invisible]

I met one of my girls right after the election. She describes herself as an antiwar conservative civil libertarian, and voted for Obomba because she thought he was the antiwar candidate and would restore / protect civil liberties. I told her about Ron Paul, and gave her a few links. After viewing a few youtube videos, her comment was "this is the man who should have been our President, now I regret voting for Obomba and wish that I had known about Ron Paul in time to vote in the primaries". Shortly afterwards, she was asked to write a paper for a college class about leadership in the two major political parties, and asked me for advice. I told her to also do some research on Dennis Kucinich, and write about how the true leaders of our two major political parties were suppressed, and why Dennis and Ron were the ones who truly exhibited the capability to lead not only their respective parties, but our country as well. She did, and not only received an A, but also received some really nice unsolicited comments from the prof, and had her paper mentioned in class as being an outstanding example of how the assignment should have been completed. She now distrusts the mainstream media, and has learned to look beyond the propaganda to find the real story.

Since she just walked in the door, I'll let her add to this posting in her own words:

I did vote for Obama. It was only shortly after the election that I did find out what he really stands for. I found that many of the things that he supports, I opposed. (The war, expansion of the police state, expansion of welfare/ the welfare state, now the GIVE Act and the bailouts) It's somewhat ignorant but I felt influenced by my peers and family to vote for Obama simply because he's a Democrat. Without even really knowing who he was I voted for him. What was I thinking following that crowd?

 

[dannno]

i haven't talked to her about it but the lady that owns the restaurant next to my work was taking her Obama bumper sticker off her van a couple weeks ago

I actually have a friend who was rear-ended shortly before the election and his bumper sticker was removed during the repair.

He recently said he was glad the bumper sticker wasn't there anymore, which is a big surprise considering he practically worshiped the guy during the election.

 

[phill4paul]

I met one of my girls....

Since she just walked in the door, I'll let her add to this posting in her own words:

Mad props...

 

[Catatonic]

I knew a guy last year that was so into Obama he was talking about riots if he lost to McCain. Now he hates the guy's guts and will admit he made a mistake. Hard to find people who are willing to admit they were wrong though.

Pointing out how frustrating it was dealing with diehard Bush apologists for 8 years goes a long way though. "You don't want to be just like those blind Bush lovers, do you?"

 

[phill4paul]

Pointing out how frustrating it was dealing with diehard Bush apologists for 8 years goes a long way though. "You don't want to be just like those blind Bush lovers, do you?"

Nice.

 

[tangent4ronpaul]

I posted anti-Obama stuff on various message boards that were non-political right after he got elected and had Obama heads all over me. I've posted similar messages more recently and not a peep. I think the country knows it totally fucked up!

January 20th, 2009
The beginning of an ERROR!

-t

 

[tpreitzel]

Or is it too early for them to admit that they made a huge mistake?

Pride always gets in the way... same with refusing to admit the government lied about 9/11.