Do You Think President Obama Will Win the 2012 Election?

Your spelling: personablity
The spelling on the link: personability

That's a typo. But I still don't think it's actually a real word, just one of those kind of made up words, that some people accept and some don't, but I still got the general meaning just by person, and -able being in the word.

And I was pretty offended, you compared me to a little kid writing a letter to about Santa Clause, that's fairly offensive. And if I could have portrayed the tone of that message it wasn't as angry as it was probably read.

But back to the topic at hand, are you denying the influence of the news and what will simply get you more votes on the presidential election? Because if you are that's just ignorant. As I said before, I don't vote based on that, but there are so many people who vote simply based on a party if someone isn't getting things done fast enough for them, or what candidate has a better appearance, or does a better speech. It's just the way America is right now.

I know so many people, being in Wisconsin, who voted for Walker simply because he was Republican and the Democrats weren't getting things done, and now that he's in office and making changes they're angry and saying he never said he was going to do this stuff. Even though during the entire election he said he was. Most people don't vote based on what candidate will be better for their views and their stances on issues, they just don't.

(And yes, I did look that word up, sorry that you've been here over twice as long and have a little broader vocabulary; I'm working on it.)

over the past 3 decades the republicans lost their roots,
Republicans were the only party that Advanced Civil Rights:

- Abraham Lincoln emancipated the slaves
- 1866: first civil rights act passed by Radical Republicans over a Presidential veto, blacks granted citizenship, segregation was forbidden
- 1868 Republicans passed the 14th amendment passed granting equal protection
- 1871 Republicans passed voting rights granting Blacks the right to Vote
- Theodore Roosevelt was the first President to invite an African-American to dinner in the White House.
- 1920s, the Democratic platforms didn't even call for anti-lynching legislation as the Republican platforms did.
- Republicans passed the 19 Amendment, granting women the right to vote.
- 1957 civil rights act pushed by Ike, passed. Sen Kennedy and Sen Gore Sr. voted against it, Democratic Senators filibustered it for 24 hrs, Senator Johnson watered it down so that it lacked enforcement.
- Eisenhower sent Federal troops to Little Rock to integrate Central High
- 1960 another civil rights act, again Dems kept enforcement measures out of it
- 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Over eighty percent of Republicans voted for both.
- Nixon created the EEOC and expanded civil rights law.
The era of a great party ends here.

Did you know that up until 1961 almost 80% of Blacks were Republican?
Even as recent as 1975 a majority of Southern Democrats were still segregationists?
Did you know that the KKK was started by Democrats to keep Blacks from voting Republican?
During the civil rights era of the1960's, it was the Democrats who Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the protestors were fighting. Democrat Public Safety Commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor in Birmingham let loose vicious dogs and turned skin-burning fire hoses on black civil rights demonstrators. Democrat Georgia Governor Lester Maddox famously brandished ax handles to prevent blacks from patronizing his restaurant. Democrat Alabama Governor George Wallace stood in front of the Alabama schoolhouse in 1963 and thundered, "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever." In 1954, Democrat Arkansas Governor Orville Faubus tried to prevent desegregation of a Little Rock public school.

Contrary to common belief, it was Republicans, not Democrats, who were pushing to pass the civil rights laws. It was Republican President Dwight Eisenhower who established the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, enforced the desegregation of the military, sent troops to Arkansas to desegregate the schools, and appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the U.S. Supreme Court which resulted in the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision ending school segregation. Eisenhower also supported the civil rights laws of 1957 and 1960.

Democrat President John F. Kennedy is lauded as a civil rights advocate. In reality, Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil rights Act while he was a senator, as did Democrat Senator Al Gore, Sr. After he became president, John F. Kennedy opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King that was organized by A. Phillip Randolph who was a black Republican. President Kennedy, through his brother Attorney General Robert Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI on suspicion of being a Communist in order to undermine Dr. King.

In March of 1968, while referring to Dr. King's leaving Memphis, Tennessee after riots broke out where a teenager was killed, Democrat Senator Robert Byrd, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, called Dr. King a "trouble-maker" who starts trouble, but runs like a coward after trouble is ignited.

Unknown by many today is the fact that it was Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois, not Democrat President Lyndon Johnson, who pushed through the civil rights laws of the 1960's. In fact, Dirksen was key to the passage of civil rights legislation in 1957, 1960, 1964, 1965 and 1968. Dirksen wrote the language for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Dirksen also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited discrimination in housing.

Because of his long record of championing civil rights legislation, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. hailed Senator Dirksen for his "able and courageous leadership." The "Chicago Defender," the largest black-owned daily at that time, praised Senator Dirksen "for the grand manner of his generalship behind the passage of the best civil rights measures that have ever been enacted into law since Reconstruction,"

I hope after the Republican establishment gets thrashed in november, they reorg and find their roots again. If not I fear this once great party is lost forever.