Here's a little two-part questionnaire, hopefully it will help you to determine precisely your level of partisan-ridiculousness. After determining your level, please use the comment section, anonymous letters to the opinion section of your local newspaper, or private emails forwarded to other, like-minded citizens to proclaim the superiority of your level of partisanship and denounce the weak-willed, insane, idiotic, America-hating, or otherwise deficient people who happened to hold a different level of partisanship than your inspired personage.
1a.If you are a conservative, how badly would you like Barack Obama to fail? Presumably you do wish him to fail, or at least be perceived to fail to such an extent that a Republican will win the next election. Do you, on the one hand wish him to be moderately successful, doing the best he can for the country, only to be narrowly defeated by the Republican candidate? Would you prefer a successful 3 1/2 years with a spectacular crash just before the election? Or perhaps a more complete failure that would mean, as often seems to happen, a corresponding shift in the makeup of Congress, with the Republicans then riding in to the rescue? Or on the other hand do you desire Obama to do this best possible job he can for the good of the country?
1b.If you are a liberal did you have similar feelings during the Bush presidency? Did they shift from the first term to the second (i.e., "now that we know we have him for the next four years, I hope for all success for W., despite my hopes for his spectacular, fiery, crashing, train-wreck of a failure just a few short months ago)? Did you instead still wish for him to fail in the second term, anticipating a call for a changing of the guard and validating your decision not to vote for him?
2.Did you find your vote swayed by your receipt of a forwarded e-mail sent by a like-wise concerned citizen who also happened to share your political views? Did the e-mail, with all it's unverified claims, outright slanders, and questionable logic stir you into action? Did the foreboding title in the subject line, "This is why I'm scared of....(Obama, Bush, McCain, Clinton, Warren G. Harding, ect.) motivate you to greater heights of political activism (for instance forwarding the e-mail to several friends who despite sharing your political party and showing no signs of changing, still needed to see this and work up the appropriate level of outrage at the thought of such a person running our country) or did you at least impart your new-found knowledge given you in the e-mail on someone else in casual conversation, with the dual benefit of showing both how political you are and striking your own little blow at the campaign of the lunatic- as you call the opposing party's candidate (either Democrat or Republican)? Were you instead influenced by the sight of a bumper sticker on the car in front of you? Or the facebook posting of your "activist friend"? What was the end result of this influence? A bumper sticker of your own? Re-posting the link again on facebook? More emphatically pulling the corresponding lever of your candidate in the voting booth?
Thank you for your time.
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