Killer Mike Breaks Down The 2012 Presidential Candidates

Mike Bigga gives us his thoughts on Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, and explains who he's going to vote for.

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Newt Gingrich

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Newt Gingrich (R)

Title: 58th Speaker of The U.S. House of Representatives (Georgia)

What you need to know:“Gingrich is a hard-nosed dude, out of Georgia. He was part of the radical Republican takeover and shift in the '90s that was so vehemently against Clinton. He basically started the campaign for the new conservatism that we see today.


 

He’s going to stay true to the Republican war machine. You can also expect social cutbacks, particularly in education.


 

“He also hasn’t been the most popular guy amongst Georgian Republicans and Democrats. He doesn’t really stand a chance of winning the race because he’s made too many political enemies over the years and won’t get full support.

He carries the support of the South, because he looks like their next-door neighbor, but he won’t catch the broad republican base that Santorum will.”

Most likely to happen if Gingrich becomes president: “We’re going to see real war. His talk about what we should be doing in other countries is a bunch of malarkey. He’s going to stay true to the Republican war machine. You can also expect social cutbacks, particularly in education. There will be a shift of certain rights going back to the states with any Republican.”

Least likely to happen if Gingrich becomes president: “Freedom for non-violent drug offenders, because he’s definitely down for the privatization of prisons and bringing more to Georgia, if possible. Also, you won’t see a black male jobs program. The only black male jobs program he’ll truly support is more private prisons.”

Mitt Romney

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Mitt Romney (R)

Title: 70th Governor of Massachusetts

What you need to know:“He’s an Obama. Policy-wise, he’s not far from where Obama is. He would be the same type of president that Obama is—minus a few liberal thoughts and ideas that people project onto Obama, which I don’t know that he necessarily holds. He’s a person that finds the middle-ground between two extremes and does what’s best on behalf of his office.


 

Policy-wise, he’s not far from where Obama is.


 

“Morally, he won’t be ultra-conservative. Fiscally, he’ll be for the ultra-rich. I don’t think he’s ever put a real tax on any capital gains income, because he doesn’t see it as fair.

The 1% would have the greatest time since Reagan, but he’ll still tax the shit out of those in the middle-class making between $250,000 and $1 million.”

Most likely to happen if Romney becomes president: “We’ll all get to have seven wives—because Romney’s a Mormon—and we’ll go to celestial heaven with him.”

Least likely to happen if Romney becomes president: “A black-male jobs program.”

Rick Santorum

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Rick Santorum (R)

Title: Former Senator (Pennsylvania)

What you need to know:“Rick Santorum is the face of white Anglo-Saxon Protestant Republican ideals. He represents that Republican fringe idealism and people who believe the Bible is absolutely true, the playing-field is fair and equal, everyone has an opportunity, and no one has excuses.


 

I’d rather have the Mormon than this guy.


 

“He’s all for taking women’s personal control of their bodies away and saying ‘you’ve got to have these babies,’ but when they get here, he’ll never support a welfare program to provide health care or food to feed them properly.

He’s as wacky as they come, and really doesn’t stand a chance. I’d rather have the Mormon than this guy.”

Most likely to happen if Santorum becomes president: “We’ll see the end of legal abortions in America.”

Least likely to happen if Santorum becomes president: “A black-male jobs program.”

Ron Paul

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Ron Paul (R)

Title: U.S. Representative (Texas)

What you need to know:“Ron Paul would get rid of the monetary system we have now, which is a system of debt, and our money would again be based on something physical, like silver and/or gold. He would bring our troops home from foreign wars. Realistically, he could take all the troops out of Libya and our agents out of Egypt and eastern Africa.


 

The bad shit is, he would de-socialize medicine. That scares me, a lot.


 

“Although, we’re strategically placed in a few countries—where we watch all of the petroleum that’s going in and out—he wouldn’t invent new wars. We would start shifting some of that money into maintaining the military and not building the military. That would free up some of our defense budget to do some other things.

“He’s also for freeing non-violent drug offenders and decriminalizing marijuana. The bad shit is, he would de-socialize medicine. That scares me, a lot.”

Most likely to happen if Paul becomes president: “A lot of black non-violent drug offenders will come home.”

Least likely to happen if Paul becomes president: “A black-male jobs program. However, you would be able to sell marijuana legally. So maybe I’m wrong on that.”

Barack Obama

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Barack Obama (D)

Title: Incumbent President of The United States

How he’s done so far:“He’s done as good a job as any moderate Democrat or Republican would’ve done. Though he could do more for the African-American community. The face of poverty and crime is often painted as an African-American face, in this country, when we talk about prisons and incarcerating non-violent offenders, we’re alluding to black males. When the Republicans ran against welfare—even when Clinton did it in the ’90s—Sister Soulja and black women were used as the face of welfare. 


 

If unemployment is at 9%, black unemployment exceeds 16%. A serious program needs to be created to solve the problem of systemic crime in inner-cities, gang violence, and bad school systems.


 

“If unemployment is at 9%, black unemployment exceeds 16%. A serious program needs to be created to solve the problem of systemic crime in inner-cities, gang violence, and bad school systems. We need to lift young black males up with real jobs programs and secondary education.

That way, we’re creating a system of Barack Obamas, to be everything from school teachers to lawyers and doctors, instead of just celebrating the exceptions, which is what he is looked at as.”

Most likely to happen if Obama remains president: “We’re definitely going to go into another war. We’ll see the furthering of socialized medicine and welfare, to some degree. If there are no jobs to prevent riots in the streets, you’re going to have to give people rations.”

Least likely to happen if Obama remains president: “A black-male jobs program.”

Voting

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So Who’s Killer Mike Voting For?

Killer Mike: “Since I’ve been able to vote, this may be the first United States presidential election that I don’t vote in. I’ve become jaded and disgruntled by the American political process. Plus, I’ve been smoking way too much weed and watching way too much George Carlin.”

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