I'm voting Obama

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Yes, I'm speaking in favor of an incumbent. I am justified in this case because our current president is actually legitimately awesome. Of course, all the Republicans are going to come along and whine and behave as if saying a supportive word about the guy makes me some horrible, evil person, but Republicans always were ignorant p*****s. There's no reason to expect them to have grown a brain cell to rub together with the other one just because a few years have passed since the last ret*d jackhead they elected to office. Therefore, if you can't tolerate a discussion about how altogether awesome Barack Obama is, go somewhere else.

Firstly, Barack Obama's administration has had the strongest ethics of any administration to serve in the past half-century. I think it's pretty telling, in fact I think it speaks volumes, that his political adversaries can't spin out a scandal with out resorting to outright lying or attacking members of his administration who were already unpopular, such as his coal man. Barack Obama has put into action policies that make it virtually impossible to be a lobbyist and expect to make a living, at least in the White House. If Obama's record on ethics hasn't been flawless, he's run a tighter ship than any predecessor since the 1950s.

Furthermore, I think he's done a pretty good job of steering us through the trying economic climate that was created by his predecessor, and he has been willing to make unpopular decisions that I don't think anyone else in his position would have had the gonads to make. You can argue against moves like the bailout bill until you're blue in the face, and it still would have been a catastrophic (and clearly politically motivated) maneuver to strike it down. Furthermore, you can say what you will of his Stimulus bill, but it has obviously introduced an unprecedented level of transparency to government spending. The roller-coaster we've been on lately has been entirely due to the Eurozone crisis, which could have been avoided if the Europeans had listened to me in the early 2000s and pressed for a stronger central government.

I know that Barack Obama has had some Yankee Moments during his interactions with British royalty. I don't think that he's especially graceful around royalty as a general rule. This notwithstanding, Obama has greatly improved our relations with Muslim society. In fact, I would argue that he has worked something of a miracle there. Barack Obama seems to know exactly when it's useful for Americans to meddle and when it is harmful for Americans to meddle. I would argue that, in this respect, Obama's administration has had the most successful foreign policy in decades. Also, I underestimated Clinton: she has been an awesome Secretary of State, and she has convinced me during her tenure as such that she would have been a kick-ass president. If she runs in 2016, she has both my vote and my sincerest apologies for doubting her, and I think she has had a lot to do with Obama's success in restoring America's reputation with the rest of the world.

On various levels, I think that Barack Obama's presidency has been extremely successful, and he has my resounding and lasting support for reelection.

I see his treatment of royals as too nice.
the concept of Royalty is diametrically opposed to the concept of America.
I think an american president should not bow to any king.

And I am going to walk around wearing a shirt that says Boycott the presidential election!! !! !! !

I'm voting for whoever is running against Obama unless they seem to be worse than Obama in which case I'm not voting.

It is either Obama, or the Republican cretins are going to take over again.

I don't think it matters who you vote for. The elections are all rigged. Even if they weren't the country would still be a corrupt, capitalist empire that is run by rich.
Bush was a horrible president and so is obama. They are politicians. They don't really care about the people. They care about money,power and their own image.

Oh yes, he's like a liberal pansy version of Bush. How awesome. Like whenever I think of my ideal presidential candidate, I'm like "Man, I want someone with the warrantless wiretapping powers Bush enacted, but even more absurd than before. I also want my country to be more like the UK, too."

Yeah...

Obama is an empty suit.

ruveyn

I disagree with you on all fronts, good day sir.

Barack's got my vote.
What's the alternative? The Republicans are running a field of candidates where the front runners are proud of being ignorant and bigoted, as if intellectuality is something bad. Huntsman is smart, but he's got a snowball's chance. Romney probably isn't a slump intellectually, but he's been working extra hard trying to fit in with dullards he at one time wouldn't have given the time of day to. And Newt, who is supposedly the intellectual center of the Republican party? When you get down to it, he's just a bully whose solution to everything is to kick the disadvantaged or unpopular minorities in the teeth. That's not even going into his hypocrisy in regard to personal morality.
Barack Obama hasn't lived up to the hype from the first time he ran for the presidency, but he still represents what is best in America.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

I'm voting for Ralph Nader. The poor man has run for over 20 years and never won. He cares about the environment.
He runs for the green party and has socialist views. I think he would run the country far better than obama but he has no chance of winning.
I hate that it is almost impossible for a third party to win.