I'm on the mailing lists for both the RNC and the DNC and I totally don't understand the RNC.

[xiphias]

I don't understand the DNC, either, really, but I don't understand the RNC more.

For non-Americans: "DNC" is the "Democratic National Committee", and the "RNC" is the "Republican National Committee". They're the major fundraising organizations for the political parties. So I get the mailings in which each team asks me for money.

The Republican National Committee is selling "I Miss W" t-shirts. And they keep talking about how Obama is the most imperialistic President ever.

Doesn't this just show the disconnect in the United States? To me, I can't imagine ANYBODY, liberal OR conservative, missing W. And I'd assume that, if Obama was a power-grabbing imperialist, he would have been able to, y'know, do SOMETHING during his terms. They're assuming a worldview that I just don't have the background to comprehend.

The DNC isn't that much better, but it's at least a bit more comprehensible to me, because I'm more familiar with the sorts of things they're talking about. I don't even hear the RNC talking points anywhere, so their stuff is just baffling. I have no clue what they're talking about.

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[quietann.livejournal.com]

This is a pretty good summary of how I feel.

I mean, Obama is capable of doing less than any president in my lifetime (start with Johnson; my mom was pregnant with me when JFK was assassinated.) Yet the RNC presents him as having Done All The Bad Things, and on your doorstep to do whatever he and Reid and Pelosi haven't thought of yet ... I just don't get it. I actually think he would have been a good president had he been able to work with the legislative branch more effectively.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

I also don't get the Pelosi hate. People refer to "Pelosi" as an extreme leftist.

[embryomystic.livejournal.com]

That's... so stupid I kind of want to laugh. I mean, I've heard most of the craziest anti-Obama nonsense, but actually missing W? Crazy talk.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

It makes me regret not having a wider range of friends. Apparently, there is a way of looking at the world for which W was a perfect leader. There is some way of viewing reality which says that everything W did was the appropriate way of approaching reality. And I don't know what that is, and I'd like to.