Income Inequality flourishes under Obama

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This further underlines a point I've been trying to make with fellow students at the university for a long time - that President Obama is a social liberalist rather than a social democrat or democratic socialist. There is nothing bad about that, really. It's simply that any talk on distribution from him is generally going to be geared towards increasing the net availability of economic opportunities and fighting poverty which comes from too many months of unemployment that is out of ones control. I consider the president a proponent of the liberal "workfare" regime and not particularly concerned about income disparities. Though to be fair here, he is also in a political environment where he is unable to reach most of his policy goals, and is pressured to act like more of a centrist than he is.

As things stand, I'm reluctant to vote for President Obama in the fall but will need to wait and see.

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As things stand, I'm reluctant to vote for President Obama in the fall but will need to wait and see.

I'm not an Obama footsoldier, but a vote for anyone else is a vote for Romney.

Maybe, or maybe not. Continuously voting against my interests for the candidates of a party that has no interest in changing the system doesn't seem like a great idea to me and, unless Montana is going to be a battleground state again this cycle, my vote will probably be "wasted" either way.

Aside from that, I am not at all a big fan of the "you are either with us, or with them" point of view.