| "Midnight in a coal mine"; Why Obama should withdraw | |
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| Baldo | Sep 19 2011, 12:07 PM Post #1 |
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Who would have thought it just 32 months ago? A Chicago tribune columnist calling for Obama to not run for a 2nd term Why Obama should withdraw Steve Chapman is a Tribune columnist When Ronald Reagan ran for re-election in 1984, his slogan was "Morning in America." For Barack Obama, it's more like midnight in a coal mine. The sputtering economy is about to stall out, unemployment is high, his jobs program may not pass, foreclosures are rampant and the poor guy can't even sneak a cigarette. His approval rating is at its lowest level ever. His party just lost two House elections — one in a district it had held for 88 consecutive years. He's staked his future on the jobs bill, which most Americans don't think would work. The vultures are starting to circle. Former White House spokesman Bill Burton said that unless Obama can rally the Democratic base, which is disillusioned with him, "it's going to be impossible for the president to win." Democratic consultant James Carville had one word of advice for Obama: "Panic." But there is good news for the president. I checked the Constitution, and he is under no compulsion to run for re-election. He can scrap the campaign, bag the fundraising calls and never watch another Republican debate as long as he's willing to vacate the premises by Jan. 20, 2013. That might be the sensible thing to do. It's hard for a president to win a second term when unemployment is painfully high. If the economy were in full rebound mode, Obama might win anyway. But it isn't, and it may fall into a second recession — in which case voters will decide his middle name is Hoover, not Hussein. Why not leave of his own volition instead of waiting to get the ax? It's not as though there is much enticement to stick around. Presidents who win re-election have generally found, wrote John Fortier and Norman Ornstein in their 2007 book, "Second-Term Blues," that "their second terms did not measure up to their first."...snipped http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-chapman-obama-reelection,0,622512.column "their second terms did not measure up to their first.". Yikes! Edited by Baldo, Sep 19 2011, 12:08 PM.
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| LTC8K6 | Sep 19 2011, 12:57 PM Post #2 |
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Assistant to The Devil Himself
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"That's racist!" |
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| Baldo | Sep 19 2011, 01:14 PM Post #3 |
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I was listening to a political pundit the other day talking about running for the Presidency from a strategic & timeline guide. Both parties are running up against State filing dates for primaries. If there was to be a Democratic challenge to Obama they are running out of time and it was doubtful in his opinion they could co-ordinate it. He expressed that running for the Presidency takes an organization and it has to be in all states. He pretty much said HRC wouldn't run under any circumstances. He doubted that any Democrat would even venture a run for the Presidency now. As for the Republicans he said Palin is running up against that deadline also. Edited by Baldo, Sep 19 2011, 01:22 PM.
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| Baldo | Sep 19 2011, 03:01 PM Post #4 |
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Liberals vow to challenge Obama in Democratic primaries President Obama’s smooth path to the Democratic nomination may have gotten rockier Monday, after a group of liberal leaders, including former presidential candidate Ralph Nader, announced plans to challenge the incumbent in primaries next year. The group said the goal is to offer up a handful of candidates from various fields and areas where the president either has failed to stake out a “progressive” position or where he has “drifted toward the corporatist right.” “Without debates by challengers inside the Democratic Party’s presidential primaries, the liberal/majoritarian agenda will be muted and ignored,” Mr. Nader said in a news release. “The one-man Democratic primaries will be dull, repetitive, and draining of both voter enthusiasm and real bright lines between the two parties that excite voters.” In search of candidates, Mr. Nader and the others sent out a letter, endorsed by 45 “distinguished leaders,”to elected officials, civic leaders, academics and members of the progressive community who specialize among other things in labor, poverty, military and foreign policy. The list, they said, also includes progressive Democrats who have held national and state office and have fought for progressive reforms. “We need to put strong Democratic pressure on President Obama in the name of poor and working people,” said Cornel West, author and professor at Princeton University who has been highly critical of Mr. Obama’s tenure since helping him get elected in 2008. “His administration has tilted too much toward Wall Street, we need policies that empower Main Street.”...snipped http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/sep/19/liberals-vow-challenge-obama-democratic-primaries/ Never say Never |
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| Baldo | Sep 19 2011, 11:17 PM Post #5 |
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Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Rep Cleaver: If Obama wasn't president, we would be ‘marching on the White House Unhappy members of the Congressional Black Caucus “probably would be marching on the White House” if Obama were not president, according to CBC Chairman Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.). "If [former President] Bill Clinton had been in the White House and had failed to address this problem, we probably would be marching on the White House," Cleaver told “The Miami Herald” in comments published Sunday. "There is a less-volatile reaction in the CBC because nobody wants to do anything that would empower the people who hate the president."...snipped http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/182209-cbc-chairman-if-obama-wasnt-in-office-we-would-be-marching-on-white-house What can you say? Results clearly don't matter for the Congressional Black Caucus |
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| LTC8K6 | Sep 20 2011, 03:00 AM Post #6 |
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Assistant to The Devil Himself
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They are saying that they are racists. |
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| Mason | Sep 20 2011, 07:23 AM Post #7 |
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. Barack "Karl" Obama is about changing this country. He wants the Post-American era and he'll go to great lengths to bring it on. The man will not step away - period. . |
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| longstop | Sep 20 2011, 08:05 AM Post #8 |
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Is the Emperor being seen by more and more folk to have no clothes on at all? Yesterdays speech, 100% undiluted Alinksy ! Obama's None-Too-Divine Comedy By Robert Gelinas American Thinker http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/09/obamas_none-too-divine_comedy.html The decision of who will become the next president of the United States will be made long before November of 2012. After the current president's most recent tour de farce before a joint session of Congress, it is rapidly becoming a foregone conclusion who it's not going to be. snip Perhaps for the very first time in his career, the golden child was openly laughed at -- and deservedly so. For it wasn't his regurgitated failed statist policies that generated all the derisive mirth; no, they were laughing at him in dismay (perhaps pity?). If you watched the debacle, it was understandably difficult not to chuckle, if not laugh out loud, aghast at his impassioned much ado about nothing, grandstanding right there center-stage in democracy's most august venue, as he ridiculously proclaimed that the solution to all of our seemingly insurmountable economic woes was a second helping of his cold leftover failed stimulus stew. There was no new vision presented, no new ideas, no course correction away from his path of ruin dragging us down in bureaucratic chains over the River Styx into the abyss of the Great Recession, Act 2. All he pitifully offered was recycled hectoring for more debt, more deficits, more crony capitalism, more union handouts, and more "temporary" payroll tax and unemployment gimmicks. Nevertheless, starkly juxtaposed against all common sense and reality, was displayed the face of failure incarnate, belligerently defiant and not the least bit remorseful over or repentant for the damage he has inflicted upon our country. Here was the true Saul Alinsky-trained radical, on fire, agitating from the bully pulpit, spewing forth lie upon lie with the vigor of Alinsky's own personal muse, Lucifer himself. snip Barack Obama will therefore not be reelected for the simple reason that, despite all the false hype and marketing, media sycophancy, corporate cronyism, community organizing, special interest-pandering, and union thuggery, and that solely by virtue of his dismal performance in office and the disaster he has wrought upon our people and our progeny, a majority of Americans have come to learn over these past three years that Barack Obama simply isn't a trustworthy man of truth and integrity. Rather, he's an impotent, naïve leader and an intransigent ideologue; and despite his Ivy League education, he isn't brilliant or even well-informed, and possesses no special wisdom, expertise, common sense, or talents beyond that of a local TV news anchorman empathetically reading a teleprompter with charm and aplomb. He can't perform messianic miracles; he was not the hope and change he claimed the world was waiting for; nor can he fundamentally transform our country into his own personal Kingdom of Heaven on Earth with social and economic justice for all, forever and ever, Amen. And any remaining delusion to the contrary, like him, is one hell of a joke.end. Comments Edited by longstop, Sep 20 2011, 08:13 AM.
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