United States Presidential Election, 2012

Assuming the president gets in election after election, we'd essentially have one leader. FDR's presidential terms were out of necessity.
 
But the president doesn't get election after election unless he's a good president.
 
Really, all that matters is that he's better than the competition (imo, Bush should not have received a second term).
 
His first term wasn't bad, considering the War on Terror (which was justified at that point) which was due to a great response to 9/11.

Also, the votes were so close that it's feasibly possible that Al Gore actually won.
 
Ornithologist Mario said:
I'm just wondering... I don't want to sound stupid, but... why is Obama called an "anti-Christian Muslim"?
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Only the fanatical far-right calls him that, and they do it mostly cause they hate and fear muslims, so they think that by calling Obama a muslim they're giving him a terrible insult
 
Dr. Javelin said:
War on Terror (which was justified at that point) which was due to a great response to 9/11.
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Justified in Afghanistan, maybe. I never saw the point of the Iraq war, even back in 2004.
 
Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and was ruled by a tyrannical dictator with the means and intent to use them.

Nosferatu Man said:
Ornithologist Mario said:
I'm just wondering... I don't want to sound stupid, but... why is Obama called an "anti-Christian Muslim"?
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Only the fanatical far-right calls him that, and they do it mostly cause they hate and fear muslims,
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While I don't think calling Obama an anti-Christian Muslim really achieves anything in terms of logical leverage, the bit about hating and fearing Muslims possibly comes because their holy book specifically states that anyone not adhering to their religious beliefs should be physically killed. I certainly think that acting like Islam is really a peaceful religion at its core is a bit ignorant sounding.
 
Magus said:
Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and was ruled by a tyrannical dictator with the means and intent to use them.
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Umm.. no.

Maybe that's what Bush and Congress thought, and that's definitely what they said. But there was never any tangible evidence to support it, and Hussein was overthrown in the second year.
 
Magus said:
the bit about hating and fearing Muslims possibly comes because their holy book specifically states that anyone not adhering to their religious beliefs should be physically killed. I certainly think that acting like Islam is really a peaceful religion at its core is a bit ignorant sounding.
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Yes, and the Bible says that anyone not adhering to Christian beliefs will experience unimaginable pain for all eternity.
 
I thought Islam advocated religious tolerance.
 
Uh, no. Most of its adherents do, but the religion itself does not, especially since, like its Judeo-Christian predecessors, it fosters the development of a "holier-than-thou" mentality that has nothing to do with divinity and everything to do with regional human bias.