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Rich writes: "'Is it time for Democrats to panic?' was the lead of a front-page Washington Post story Wednesday morning. Is it? Not in June."
President Barack Obama in Tucson, Arizona, 01/12/11. (photo: Jewel Samad/Getty Images)
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I wish that he had a lot more positives like fighting harder for what needs to be done even if it goes down to defeat. There are a lot of examples - executive orders, recess appointments, etc. - where he could have accomplished a lot more than he did. Instead he tried to play nicely with the neighborhood bullies and consequently got his face bloodied.
Ignore Rasmussen tracking polls and all of the Billionaires for Romney ads. Republican economic policies caused this recession and their attempts to drive the narrative that they should be returned to power because the President didn't fix their disaster fast enough is just pathetic.
Romney's single term as a state Governor is only slightly longer than Sarah Palin's career, and now it turns out they both have a "Troopergate" problem. Sarah abused her power for family revenge reasons, while Willard dressed up as a Trooper just to frighten the public and amuse his friends.
Rasmussen is the only real poll that is neutral...and lets discuss Obama and his failings, You already know the list...but Wall Street heads it up!
http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-chait/75161/the-rasmussen-problem
Rasmussen is a conservative push-poll.
The caption for that photo is more likely, "you do think Geithner was right, don't you?"
The Dems must stop ignoring foreclosures, evictions and shadow banking and figure out to somehow give America back their privacy.
Instead of voting for the lesser of two evils, vote AGAINST the lesser good.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/report-white-house-halt-deportation-young-illegal-immigrants-133800284.html
"During the primary, Mitt Romney said he would veto the Dream Act, but in recent weeks he has seemed open to a proposal by Sen. Marco Rubio to grant Dreamers a work permit but not a path to citizenship"
Does that not fit in with your agenda?
I'm beginning to question your motives again. NO ONE primaried Obama. If they had, I would have supported them (unless they were even further to the right, e.g. clinton). No one bothered. No one to his left seriously wants to be President or they'd give it an honest attempt. I refuse to vote for someone who's only in it as a protest.
For the record, I didn't vote for the Democrats in 2010. How much good has that done?
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/watch-live-obama-explains-decision-legalize-young-illegal-165949610.html
Apparently, the far right agrees with you. He's being heckled as we speak by the far right because of his "leftist" thinking. Do you have any response to them other than joining in their chorus and staying home in November so RoMoney can be elected?
Thumbs down only mean you don't understand...
Thursday, June 14, 2012
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows Mitt Romney attracting 48% of the vote, while President Obama earns 44%. Four percent (4%) prefer some other candidate, and another four percent (4%) are undecided.
Romney now leads Obama for the first time in Wisconsin where the president's support has fallen to its lowest level to date. Former Governor Tommy Thompson remains well ahead of Democratic Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin in Wisconsin’s U.S. Senate race.
Romney also leads in North Carolina and Missouri. Obama leads in Pennsylvania.
The race is a toss-up in Iowa, Ohio, Virginia, Florida and Colorado.
In the first 14 days of June for Election 2012, Romney has held the lead 11 times, the candidates have been tied twice, and Obama has been on top once.
People have seen through Obama and the likelihood of him winning are slim to none...You fought us all the way, when we attempted to support a viable candidate...now what? are you still in denial?
Yesterday's interrogation of Jamie Dimon was a joke..."gee, Mr. Dimon you are the smartest banker in the world..." "you only lost $2 billion - we (Congress) lose that much everyday..."
These guys are crooks and the politicians are enablers... Al Capone didn't pay off Elliott Ness... He paid off the politicians.
Obama wins the electoral college by not as much as in 2008 but still a mildly comfortable lead. Obama wins, and is ahead in the non-Rasmussen polls in, Colorado, Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa and Virginia.
Romney will reclaim N. Carolina and Florida but it won't be enough. People have seen through the obstructionist tea wing rhetoric and blame them as much as Obama for the lack of economic progress. They also know that the whole world is reaching some sort of economic precipice and they know that's not all Obama's fault. Bush? Perhaps.
But Romney's secret plan to create jobs through "leadership" coupled with his defiantly secret tax returns, and his stiff personality aren't convincing enough people to switch sides.
Facts remain facts, its like standing on railroad tracks with a train coming at you, and denying the trains existence, but not moving out of the way...
1980?
2000?
ALL of those years were lost, at least in part by a fractured left filled by people with your exact sentiment.
Milktoast indeed!
Obama needs to direct his Justice Dept. to prosecute rogue bankers, push for increased stimulus spending, fair taxes on the wealthy and this time really mean it when he pushes a strong public option for health care.
If the Democrats really want to win they need to look at what FDR did, what Johnson did for the poor.
Entitlements need to be explained as something workers have paid into and as such they are entitled to the benefits of what they have paid for,
In contrast to the banks that were judged too big to fail the Democrats need to come up with that the majority of Americans are too many to fail.
3 videos about the push to get rid of postal workers point to what's wrong with our current system especially when too many Democrats side with the Republicans that the majority needs less and the rich need more and public services need to be cut.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09ybkkiH2Ho
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am4wez1ShPY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am4wez1ShPY
And lets them control the news with their lies.
Obama is the problem, you are asking the fox to protect the hens he plans to eat!
We never had a womderful country, we only had the illusion of one. The Banks have always been running things behind the scenes...
While the above has some truth to it, it is important to remember that the Republicans co-opted the Tea Party, and the extreme religious right co-opted the Republican Party, It who appeals to a strange group of individuals whose thinking processes are just about impossible to fathom.
Choosing between these two evils is easy because Republicans are both radical and irrational. They are more deeply in the pockets of the 1% than most or our politicians. Republicans leaders didn't even have sense enough to realize that a corporation can never be human.
As to health care, the " public option" is the only thing that makes real sense. The point we have to make clear is that the US is the ONLY developed country that has failed to create a single payer health system that covers all citizens. Such systems are humane, and deliver better care at a far, far lower cost.
Being in church doesn't make you a Christian any more than being in a garage makes you a car.
I myself am a church going Catholic and most of the Catholics I know in my church who send their kids to the same Catholic school are fed up with repugnicans.
You're right, the tide is turning against them, but it's turning across the board.
TWO YEARS AGO was time to panic if ever. Two years ago it was clear that the liberals who elected Obama were sick of being insulted by his actions. He actually has to win us back.
And I plan to vote for him all the same. How we're going to hold his feet to the fire is beyond me. Hopefully, the words of people like John Locke will put at least some scare into him.
That said, after the election is over, he's free for another 4 years.
That said, he's still to the left of ANY repug, and any repug would be MUCH MUCH worse.
Success in a fight doesn't mean perfection. Your opponent will land punches. Winning means lessening the net affects.
On the whole, we'll be worse off without Obama than with him. That doesn't make me happy with his performance, but it also doesn't make me so willing to punish him that I'm willing to throw my own children under the bus to make a point.
It's complex. If it were simple it wouldn't be politics.
If he'd stepped into the LEADERSHIP our Country was seeking by investigating the Ponzi Mill Meltdown, JAILING the BANKSTERS and the TORTURERS, Stopping the FORECLOSURES by breaking up the "to big to fail" Banks and redistributing their ill-gotten gains by RESETTING our underwater MORTGAGES to current value, he'd be untouchable in his re-election!
If he'd included the Public Option, or made Medicare avaible for all to buy in there'd be a movement to reserve another spot at Mount Rushmore and the Amendment to unmake Corporations as people and money as speech would be out to the States for radification!
I guess courage is neccessary to do what's right and that's lacking in most Democrtic Politicians.
For the structural problems, see especially the Conclusion to PAINTING DIXIE RED: When, Where, Why, and How the South Became Republican. It is by the scholar, Glenn Feldman.
It deals with the national implications of the Southernization of the GOP.
You couldn't give me Obama's job - what a headache!
"We should have kept the House. We shouldn't have turned our backs on the environmentalis ts. We should have been tougher on Wall Street, and not loaded our boat with the quacks who made the economic collapse possible." Should'a, would'a, could'a...
I've predicted all along that Obama, if he's wise, will opt for one term. He leaves historically, celebrated as our first black president and guaranteed huge speaking fees. The party is a bit fractured and toothless now, so it might be time to hop in the next life boat and head for shore.
We voted for him and prayed for a firm hand on the wheel. Wish that had been so.
Please reconsider, or consider changing your name.
'Incremental' eh ? I've seen glaciers move faster than politics. You guys just love to bicker and argue, and that's the 'essence' of partisan politics, if it had an essence. So go ahead and bicker and argue, even with the Voice of Reason.
When it all falls apart, you will still need to become united under the banner or 'what is good for all mankind', instead of your disastrous 'what is good for our [party] [group] [race] [fill in the limited association].
If you have a viable alternative that isn't just a whining list of complaints, I'm all ears.
A viable alternative ... what a coincidence.
Actually, instead of arguing and fighting about our differences in opinion, or whatever, perhaps we should let our differences unite us in a common goal: the advancement of the human race.
The problem is, the forces of evil have overthrown Russia, China, and the Islamic republics. And the forces of alcohol have overthrown the rest of the world. It is difficult at best to deal with people that want to destroy the free world, or who are intoxicated or high or who believe immorality is great.
One voice can't get everyone's attention. It will likely take the breakdown of the social order before people turn away from the way things are done today. It is one giant corrupt machine hell bent on killing us, and profiting from it. Predator economies and sucker economies don't disappear overnight. They must collapse under the galling weight of their own iniquities.
Shoghi Effendi wrote in 1947: “... Every system, short of the unification of the human race, has been tried, repeatedly tried, and been found wanting." If we choose unity, perhaps selfishness and pride should be abandoned.
The question is: where do you want to be when it collapses?
If it's let the country destroy itself and speed it up, I have to disagree. I have children whom I love. If you hate life, I understand your position. Otherwise, it's probably better to fight.
Too bad the smooth talking Obama cannot figure out the wooden Romney. A guy who makes Putin, the poodle guy, look like Mr. Warmth and Charm. It good to see yet another election where no matter who wins they will be the lesser person,
That's what happened in 2009. We Democrats had a House, a Senate, and a White House--and the very richest Republicans became, as a result, richer than they had ever been before.
* He has already gotten government matching funds.
* He will likely be able to get onto the ballot in 50 states.
* He may get into the debates and change what gets discussed.
* The Democrats may have to start behaving like Democrats because voters have an alternative to Republican lite not owned by banksters.
I mean, let's save government money by stopping the jailing of people who use medical marijuana instead of cutting health insurance for sick children or heating help for old ladies.
Let's stop the pattern of being in a constant state of multiple wars, It is not only immoral but also expensive.
Go ahead. Give him a look.
Norquist is correct. All GOP candidates need is a pen. I never got the private sector is doing fine brouhaha. Any semi-informed reader or listener knew that he was referring to the 1% and the Wolves of Wall Street and/or Big Grease.
Whenever I watch the news, less and less, I have this desire to emit a 90 decibel premordial scream to release.
More and more I believe that the only way to fight GOP gutter tactics is ridicule because even the mostly lowly-informed voter gets base humor. Let's start with the astonishing parallels between LDS belief systems and Scientology. Do a comparison on Wikipedia. One could do a better job but why bother. The gutter is a gutter is a gutter. The political cartoons of the late 19th century through the Seven Sisters era are absolutely on point today.
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