Any 2008 Obama Voters?

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Was too young in 2008, but I did in 2012. I'm a little embarrassed to say my turning away from the left was much more recent. The difference between my understanding of life a decade ago and now is so immense it almost makes me think the voting age should be 25.
 
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Yeah.

I think a lot about the Johnny Ramone quote that everyone is born liberal and as they grow they become conservative; failure to do so signifies a failure to grow.

Only in America you're born a Democrat and become a Republican until you die and become a Democrat again.
 
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I did not, but I knew of a ton of people who voted for him mainly on the grounds of him being black. The other factor was John McCain being seen as an old establishment politician. A lot of Republicans even had mixed feelings about him, he was known for 'going both ways in DC,' for his large number of bipartisan efforts with Democrats, which cost him the nomination in 2000.
 
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More than just an '08 voter, I worked on his campaign.
It is amazing how much 4 years of general incompetence ruined any hope I had for his brand of change.
 
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Hiccup Scream said:
What was the appeal? Just drank the coolaid or was it like a community thing that felt good to be apart of?
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We were coming off of 8 years of pointless war, government-endorsed torture policies, and intrusive surveillance of the general populace. And McCain promised to double down on all of it.
Wall Street had just crashed the economy through pretty blatant fraud and Bush was handing them our money to keep those retards from suffering the consequences of their actions.
Where we were naive is in believing Obama would actually do something about these issues instead of just telling us he would for our vote.
 
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Absolutego said:
We were coming off of 8 years of pointless war, government-endorsed torture policies, and intrusive surveillance of the general populace. And McCain promised to double down on all of it.
Wall Street had just crashed the economy through pretty blatant fraud and Bush was handing them our money to keep those retards from suffering the consequences of their actions.
Where we were naive is in believing Obama would actually do something about these issues instead of just telling us he would for our vote.
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In retrospective, would you have prefered to just not have voted in that election?
 
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Toji Suzuhara said:
In retrospective, would you have prefered to just not have voted in that election?
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Eh, he was going to win anyways, and getting burned as bad as I did was a pretty important lesson to learn about politics.
I was so bitter about him and skeptical about Trump initially that I voted 3rd party for the next two elections.
 
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There were also major concerns about McCain’s age at the time and I remember people saying they were going to wait and see who the VP picks were. I know a lot of normies picked Obama after McCain chose Palin. People who weren’t politically conscious at the time can’t understand what an absolute joke she was.

I think the hype around Obama makes more sense when you look at the climate of the country in the mid 2000s.
 
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TheSaltySpitoon said:
There were also major concerns about McCain’s age at the time and I remember people saying they were going to wait and see who the VP picks were. I know a lot of normies picked Obama after McCain chose Palin. People who weren’t politically conscious at the time can’t understand what an absolute joke she was.

I think the hype around Obama makes more sense when you look at the climate of the country in the mid 2000s.
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What's interesting about Palin is she was terrible but the stuff people brought up as examples were extremely overblown.
Soooooo many Democrats clearly only knew her from Tina Fey's version of her on SNL and would attribute things the actual Sarah Palin never said to her, "I can see Russia from my house" being the best example.
 
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