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Obama has been losing several of the constituencies that elected him in 2008. There's a lot of disillusionment out there. And one of the prime candidates for losing the rosy view they had for the then-unknown candidate, is young people.
Can Obama Seduce Young Voters While Robbing Them Blind? Again?
by Shawn Mitchell
Hey students! Youth voters! Are you up for Hope and Change 2012? Here’s the deal. In just four years President Obama ran your personal share of the US debt from $30,000 to $50,000 ...and still rocketing up. Plus! You get to graduate from college with massive debt, and half of you will be underemployed or unemployed. Plus! He character-assaults anyone who wants to reform entitlements to slow down the massive wealth transfer from poorer you to richer old geezers. Plus! He promises you free stuff…then just puts it on your overcharged US credit card. Plus! Some of us are closer to the end of our earning and tax-paying years than others. We aren’t gonna pay no stinking $50,000! Guess you’ll have to cover us. Better get busy, suckers!! Hope and Change 2012…Tell a friend!!!”
Enthusiastic Facebookers know the angst of reconsidering impulsive rants. So, after reflection, I regret that my effort above—my “status” as the socially networked call it--from a few months back is so benign and understated.
Simply stated, few presidents in US history oversaw such total devastation of the prospects of young Americans. None gained office on a wave of youthful enthusiasm and adulation. None depended so desperately for reelection on re-energizing that same youth demographic to its historic former frenzy. None had a record as wretched as Barrack Obama from which to fashion a campaign pitch. Ominously, none faced a youth cohort so disengaged, deceived, superficial, and susceptible to cultural atmospherics that it just might work.
President Obama’s designs on a second term depend on energizing the very Americans his policies have hurt the worst: young workers, students, and others who will soon enter the workforce.
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Hateful angry liberals will vote for him again and again blame the conservatives for all the wrong that is happening because the liberal media is telling them to.
Sure he can. Those that are 18 today were 15 in 2008 and more interested in friends, video games and clothes.
At 18 they are ripe for the picking of idealistic promises.
I have been hearing that at least one poll of likely voters says that the number of people who say their kids will be better off than they are, today, has slipped from 27% when Obama took office to 14% today. When those numbers get widely known some of the stupid kids may wise up to the fact that since 1/2 of those who said better now say worse they may see some truth the Dems will never tell them. I can't wait for the lefties to deal with those numbers here on C-D.
I have been hearing that at least one poll of likely voters says that the number of people who say their kids will be better off than they are, today, has slipped from 27% when Obama took office to 14% today. When those numbers get widely known some of the stupid kids may wise up to the fact that since 1/2 of those who said better now say worse they may see some truth the Dems will never tell them. I can't wait for the lefties to deal with those numbers here on C-D.
All we can do is hope Obama isn't voted in again, and then maybe we'll have an additional 4 years to fire the rest of the professional politicians.
Sure he can. Those that are 18 today were 15 in 2008 and more interested in friends, video games and clothes.
At 18 they are ripe for the picking of idealistic promises.
Which is why it was a crazy idea to lower the voting age from 21 to 18.
There is a lot of growing up to be done between high school and adulthood...
And for the "war and vote" crowd in 1968 I was 19 years old in Vietnam and couldn't vote. Didn't scar me for life.
Possibly yes, for some of our young, are too easily swayed. For those like some college grads i know personally who cannot find a job, are very disenchanted with obama.
After all he did promise them Hope n Change.
For those whose parents lost a job, or a home too, i do not think they will be so easily swayed.
Take a look around for gosh sakes, no rocket scientist needed to tell us we are in a very bad situation, and bankers i know who have some high position jobs, are telling me, get ready, it is going to get worse the next couple of months, so far information they have given me, has been right on.
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