Anyway to try and answer your question, I believe in personal responsibility, small Federal governemnt, that the States should be the ones making/shaping most of the laws and should maintain the 'power' while the Federal government does it's most important job and that is protecting the U.S. from our enemies with a STRONG military presence.
Plain and simple....I'm OLD school American way of thinking...like my Grandfater and his Dad way of thinking......Obama is not.
See, this is where I get confused, becuase what's "OLD school American" thinking? 30-60's, so the generation you referenced, implemented things like Social Security, Medicare, and other "Welfare" programs, which these same people massively enjoy/look forward to. The same generation taxed people heavily, build a huge infrastructure, invested heavily in science and development, and heavily regulated Wall Street and corporations. In a lot of ways, Obama is simply fighting for these same principles; Health Care reform isn't something radically new, but an expansion of Medicare and Medicaid; Financial Regulations weren't something new, but in a lot of ways just the
reimplementation of regulations enacted after the Great Depression. Nothing he has done has really harmed the military; in fact, he's really increased our presence dramatically in important ways; he got Osama, he killed Al Awlaki (sp?) with a drone strike, and I guess since no terrorist attacks have happened since the took over, according to Bush era republican thinking, he's protected America. We're out of Iraq now, we our military isn't unnecessarily weak, so we are
actually able to protect ourselves better should something real materialize.
I get why people would vote for Paul over Obama, but voting to vote out Obama is jumping out of the kettle into the fire.