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I feel that at least part of the reason Obama was elected was because Bush was so GD bad. I found the black (well, half black) part refreshing but approaching zero in importance in a vote decision. I did view him as the only option on the final ballot due to Palin being the lowest quality candidate I've ever seen. NC has the harshest ballot access requirements of almost anywhere, so we don't see a lot of choices on the ballots here, i.e. the worthy Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich, or the stellar Ralph Nader. Also, Obama said a lot of the right things before the election and has since pulled away from almost all of them.

I haven't heard of the 1%, nor the 9.25% taxes. I don't know where those rates come from since there are so many things that influence the amount paid. Is 9.25% a Cali. sales tax rate? Anyway, I find the idea of tax rates, tax savings, tax and spend, etc., to be moot points now due to the largest theft of wealth from the working class ever seen. The size of the bailouts are greater than *every* dollar in taxes *every* American making under $75k a year has paid *IN THE LAST 4 YEARS*. There also seems to be amnesia that the dam on the free-for-all theft/bailout broke in September of '08 under Bush. It didn't start with Obama, though he's been enthusiastic about it. All this along with the endless wars makes me shudder when I hear that Los Angeles can barely get its schools operational this year and that many classes will have nearly 50 students per an NPR report I heard. This budget/starve-the-schools shit also happened decades ago when I, too, was in high school and class size surpassed 40, sometimes 50 students in a class and there was a hopeless war going on then, too. Déjà vu! Nobody learned squat in a class that big and I had to get it somewhere else, and fortunately the hopeless war ended before I got drafted only to be replaced by a raft of undeclared ones.

Tiz really fucked!