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The truth hurts. And Repugnuts will be called out for their overt race-based hatred of President Obama whenever and whereever it is happening. Get used to it. The TPers and the Repugs started that crap by sending around racist emails and holding racist signs at protests, so YES you will be called out for the open display of bigotry.
It is what it is.
Why can't you face the reality that Obama has failed because of his own actions? How does his failure to negotiate and get anything he wants have anything to do with racism. Obama is spineless and everyone knows it. He's made it so easy to walk all over him.
He promised change, yet he tries to compromise with those who want no change and fight him like a whiny 3 year old in a department store. He's compromised so much that he's center-right, at least in terms of the bills he's passed.
Because of this he's lost the interest of his base. The demographics of those who voted in 2008 were completely different from those that voted in 2010. A lot of his voters just stayed home.
The interesting question will be, is his base paying attention? Do they realize that if you stay home you get the right wing extremism that you see in the house and many other states. All the sacrifice by the many at the bottom so a few rich people don't have to sacrifice at all.
If his base realizes this, the Republicans get the boot, and maybe he can get a second chance with some dems in the legislature who have backbones. If not we're going be the New Monarchy of America. Where a few people have all the wealth and can pass it on from one generation to the next. We've been moving that way since Reagan, this will just be the final nail in the coffin.
Let's take a look at where he went " wrong".
He had grass roots support of young voters and the lower social class. Neither have much economic power( I E lobbying power), neither are known for maintaining an active interest in improving conditions for anybody but themselves. And young voters are notoriously unreliable. They forgot Obama and he forgot them.
He never made his mark in the Whitehouse. The Clintons handpicked his staff and appointees. He cowtowed to Pelosi and Reid.
His major economic policies were Bush's policies. Bank bailouts, Wall Street, taxes, jobs,trade. So were his war policies and anti terrorism policies. And he was Mr. anti transparency, he did little of what he said he'd do. people don't like being lied to or being taken for suckers.
He never stood up to anybody. Not the GOP, not foreign powers. He got the repuation of being a pushover.
he did soem stupid things. Made race an issue when it clearly wasn't. Hobnobbed with Hollywood elite wehn peopel were out of jobs, took vacations and frittered away time and resourcesover policies nobody felt were necessary( health care reform). We wanted to move away from big government and he was unable to sense that and wansted to make it bigger to " fix things" when that was the exact opposite of what to do.
He just came across as a puppet, a guy that was manipulated and easily coerced into doing what he was told what to do.
His repuation as an intelligent person didn't hold up to close scrutiny and he seemed more average and more like Bush than not.
People had very high expecations for him, too high, and he was a complete disappointment.
His base remains loyal to him more out of a hatred for conservatives than a belief in his ability. Thats a pretty repugnant bunch and they won't do much to win over supporters for him.
He campaigned on being a centrist and then did his utmost to act like an elitist liberal.
Independants gave up on him, they're more educated voters than anyone and can see right through him with a dispassionate eye. They don't hate him like conservatives do, they just see him as a failure.
True liberals will see him as a failure and their support will be minimal. If any Green Party candidate makes a decent effort they'll support them, not Obama.
Young voters will vote against him or just won't vote.
He was just a fraud, a sham, full of bad ideas that he didn't even deliver on.
The Beer Summit was an inside look at the failures of this President. What was once chalked up to a "newbie" error actually illustrates to me the weakling, pacificst nature of this President.
It was not a mistake. It was the gross incompetence in action at an early stage.
The Beer Summit was an inside look at the failures of this President. What was once chalked up to a "newbie" error actually illustrates to me the weakling, pacificst nature of this President.
It was not a mistake. It was the gross incompetence in action at an early stage.
A simple "I don't have the facts so I'm not prepared to comment" would have served him so much better than "I don't have the facts but I understand that the Cambridge Police acted stupidly". He had absolutely no business throwing himself into the mix of what would have been a non-issue had he stayed out of it. Instead he stirred up a National feces storm that was an epic embarrassment to the office of POTUS........
Don't ya know, he went wrong at birth. He was really born in Iran and was born with a Koran in one hand and a red flag with a hammer & a sickle on it in the other hand. He took a look at one hand and shouted "Allah akhbar, death to America!" Then he took a look at the other hand and shouted "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need."
That's the Tea Party version at least.
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