I think that Obama is too inexpirenced, and too much a liability to be on the ticket, I think Richardson should be on the ticket to get other swing states, but honestly 95% of the Obama supporters will click Clinton on the ballot, even if they do not like her.
Posts Tagged ‘Thing’
Why do top clinton officials believe that the only thing that can save obama is a TERRORIST attack?
22
Jul
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/434315b2-8ea6-11df-8a67-00144feab49a.html
Obama faces growing credibility crisis
By Edward Luce in Washington
Published: July 13 2010 18:51 | Last updated: July 13 2010 18:51
Robert Gibbs, Barack Obama’s chief spokesman, got into hot water this week for daring to speak the truth – that the Democrats could lose control of the House of Representatives in November. But it could be even worse than that.
Contrary to pretty much every projection until now, Democratic control of the Senate is also starting to coming into question. While Mr Obama’s approval ratings have continued to fall, and now hover at dangerously close to 40 per cent according an ABC-Washington Post poll published on Tuesday, the fate of his former colleagues in the Senate looks even worse.
Add to that the continuing woes of Harry Reid, the Senate Democratic majority leader, in Nevada, where the Republican party’s recent nomination of Sharron Angle, a far-right and highly eccentric Tea Party supporter, appear to have had no positive effect on Mr Reid’s prospects, and the Grand Old party has a good shot at taking control of both houses of Congress. Worse for Mr Obama, political scientists say that at this stage in the calendar, there is almost nothing he can do about it.
“If you ask me where the silver lining is for President Obama, I have to say I cannot see one,” says Bill Galston, a former Clinton official, who has been predicting for months the Democrats could lose the House. “Just as BP’s failure to cap the well has been so damaging, Obama’s failure to cap unemployment will be his undoing. There is nothing he can do to affect the jobless rate before November.”
The direction of the data could hardly be worse. According to Democracy Corps, a group headed by Stanley Greenberg, a liberal pollster who is a close friend of Rahm Emanuel, Mr Obama’s chief of staff, a majority of US citizens see Mr Obama as “too liberal”.
Astonishingly, 55 per cent of citizens think Mr Obama is a “socialist” against only 39 per cent who do not share that diagnosis. The same poll shows 48 per cent support for Republicans against just 42 per cent for Democrats. The numbers are eerily similar to 2006, except that it was George W. Bush’s Republicans who were on the receiving end four years ago.
–READ HERE—
“The bottom line here is that Americans don’t believe in President Obama’s leadership,” says Rob Shapiro, another former Clinton official and a supporter of Mr Obama. “He has to find some way between now and November of demonstrating that he is a leader who can command confidence and, short of a 9/11 event or an Oklahoma City bombing, I can’t think of how he could do that.”
—[SO HOW COULD THIS "EVENT" SAVE HIM?]
In private, informal advisors to Mr Obama are almost as negative. According to one, the US public’s loss of confidence in Mr Obama’s leadership is a factor above and beyond their dissatisfaction over the state of the real economy, which continues to slow as last year’s $787bn stimulus starts to run dry. The adviser, who asked to remain anonymous, said the public did not know what Mr Obama really believed. Examples include his lukewarm support last year for a public option in the healthcare bill and his equally lukewarm support today for a Senate bill that would extend unemployment insurance and aid state governments to keep teachers in their jobs.
In both cases, Mr Obama has offered only token, negotiable, support. “I never thought I would say this, but even I’m unsure what President Obama really believes,” says the adviser. “Instead of outsourcing decisions to Congress, he should spell out his bottom line. That is what leaders are for.”
Next week, Mr Obama is likely to sign a historic Wall Street re-regulation bill into law. Earlier this year he did the same for healthcare. But polls show the public either does not care, or even opposes these otherwise big reforms. “The longer this goes on, the more it looks like Obama wasted his first year on healthcare,” said the outside adviser. “It’s still the economy, stupid.”
.Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2010. You may share using our article tools. Please don’t cut articles from FT.com and redistribute by email or post to the web.
That is actually from the Financial times, and the article is putting a good spin on Obama – they are PRO-Obama.
It is not a diatribe, it is an article from a mainstream publication.
He was a top ADVISOR, excuse me.
Let me put it this way, the guy that said this was Clinton’s Carl Rove.
rz1971 – People rallied around George Bush after 9/11 (that was also the reason he was re-elected). People rallied around Clinton after OKC bombing.
Why is everyone so upset about obamas new health care plan thing?
09
Jul
From my understanding, shouldnt the bill be helpful? Doesnt it cover more americans? Honestly, i dont know much im only a 20 year old college student but i thought id ask. But another thing is, why is it ok to spend trillions on a war, but not ok to spend billion on our countrys health? man friken politics… lol
Democrats — agreed? Take the time to actually read this whole thing .. ?
02
Jul
If you grow up in Hawaii , raised by your grandparents, you’re ‘exotic, different.’
Grow up in Alaska eating moose burgers, a quintessential American story.
If your name is Barack you’re a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
Name your kids Willow , Trig and Track, you’re a maverick.
Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.
Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you’re well grounded.
If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor,
spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate’s Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran’s Affairs committees, you don’t have any real leadership experience.
If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you’re qualified to become
the country’s second highest ranking executive (and according to the actuarial tables, a 30% chance of succeeding the president during your first term).
If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you’re not a real Christian.
If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you’re a Christian.
If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.
If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state’s school system while your un-wed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you’re very responsible.
If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family’s values don’t represent America ‘s.
If you’re husband is nicknamed ‘First Dude’, with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn’t register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.
What if?
Obama/Biden vs McCain/Palin, what if things were switched around?…..think
about it. Would the country’s collective point of view be different? Could
racism be the culprit?
Ponder the following:
What if the Obamas had paraded five children across the stage, including a
three month old infant and an unwed, pregnant teenage daughter?
What if John McCain was a former president of the Harvard Law Review?
What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class?
What if McCain had only married once, and Obama was a divorcee?
What if Obama was the candidate who left his first wife after a severe
disfiguring car accident, when she no longer measured up to his standards?
What if Obama had met his second wife in a bar and had a long affair while
he was still married?
What if Michelle Obama was the wife who not only became addicted to
painkillers but also acquired them illegally through her charitable
organization?
What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard?
What if Obama had been a member of the Keating Five? (The Keating Five were
five United States Senators accused of corruption in 1989, igniting a major
political scandal as part of the larger Savings and Loan crisis of the late
1980s and early 1990s.)
What if McCain was a charismatic, eloquent speaker?
What if Obama couldn’t read from a teleprompter?
What if Obama was the one who had military experience that included
discipline problems and a record of crashing seven planes?
What if Obama was the one who was known to display publicly, on many
occasions, a serious anger management problem?
What if Michelle Obama’s family had made their money from beer distribution?
What if the Obamas had adopted a white child?
You could easily add to this list. If these questions reflected reality, do
you really believe the election numbers would be as close as they are? This
is what racism does. It covers up, rationalizes and minimizes positive
qualities in one candidate and emphasizes negative qualities in another when
there is a color difference.
Educational Background:
Barack Obama:
Columbia University – B.A. Political Science with a Specialization in
International Relations.
Harvard – Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna *** Laude
Joseph Biden:
University of Delaware – B.A. in
My question is — how can Republicans actually be serious about voting McCain/Palin? I know this isn’t going to change their minds, obviously, I wasn’t born yesterday. Just wanted to make a point like they try to do 24/7 on here. This is NOT a rant, this is a question, so please don’t report it. I don’t report YOUR lame posts.
Accidentally cut off after Joe Biden’s education
Joseph Biden:
University of Delaware – B.A. in History and B.A. in Political Science.
Syracuse University College of Law – Juri s Doctor (J.D.)
vs.
John McCain:
United States Naval Academy – Class rank: 894 of 899
Sarah Palin:
Hawaii Pacific University – 1 semester
North Idaho College – 2 semesters – general study
University of Idaho – 2 semesters – journalism
Matanuska-Susitna Colle ge – 1 semester
University of Idaho – 3 semesters – B.A. in Journalism
Education isn’t everything, but this is about the two highest offices in the
land as well as our standing in the world. You make the call.
Obama chastised Clinton for closed door healthcare negotiations. Why is he doing the same exact thing?
01
Jul
http://www.breitbart.tv/the-c-span-lie-did-obama-really-promise-televised-healthcare-negotiations/
Watch for yourself, he is on tape having promised 7 times for open door negotiations aired on CSPAN, so far, we have closed door negotiations. So much for “transparency”.
Would it be a bad thing to wear Obama gear the day after the election if he wins?
21
Jun
My parents say it would be a bad idea and I would be asking for a fight. And to do so would be rubbing it in everybodys face. I live in a pretty conservative area in Georgia, so i know i might get alot of attention. But I don’t care, 1st amendment. What do you all think?
How do liberals like Obama more than Bush, they both do the same thing?
09
Jun
In my opinion any liberal who hated Bush should equally if not have MORE hate for Obama, he is doing all the things they didn’t like Bush doing but on steroids.
More earmarks, less oversight, more scandal, corrupt picks for members of his Admin (the treasure secretary is a tax cheat), more signing statements, same time line for withdrawl as Bush etc.
He is doing all the same things but worse, how do they like him?
“I disagree. Every politician usually has earmarks, they almost can’t be avoided”
He got elected by compaigning that eh would “have an administration of intense oversight, earmark reform, close the war on terror, no signing statements, etc. He hasn’t delivered.
“one president thought gitmo was a good idea. the other realizes it is the worst hipocrosy (sp??) this country has done since slavery.”
All he is doing is moving gitmo prisoners to a new gitmo detention facility somewhere else,a nd some he is releasing into the US. So he is doing what they did at Abu Gahrib and just moving them to a new facility with less heat on it, or he is letting them free. either way, bad idea.
Plus Gitmo isnt even close to the biggest problem in this country.
Do you know the first thing Obama does in the morning?
17
May
Sneak back into the White House.
http://www.nationalenquirer.com/obama_cheating_scandal_vera_baker_video_/celebrity/68589
Please don’t discount the National Enquirer. It was the first to break the Monica Lewenski story and the John Edwards affair story.
And it’s a load of crap, because??? Is it a load of crap just like John Edwards and Slick Wiile was a load of crap?
Politicians drag their families out during campaigns to show what great family guys and gals they are.
If they aren’t really great family people then it’s a lie. I don’t know about you but I think a public official who lies is scum.
Besides don’t you feel any empathy for Michelle and the girls.
I do.
If you are Obama,McCain,what is the first thing you will do if you win the presidential election?
13
May
If I where Obama or McCain,I will donate our rusty not good weapons to the terrorist groups to use.we can win the war cause what they are using is our rusty not good weapon.
Are the conservatives still harping about the Obama Birth certificate thing?
26
Apr
i watched the news all weekend and i have yet to hear anything on a supreme court decision on the matter
Do you thing the “real certificate of birth” of Obama is a forgery like Karl Rove says it is?
23
Apr
Some broad claims to have Obama’s birth certificate. (Breaking news) Even Karl Rove says it’s a forgery, and it doesn’t change anything anyway. He is a natural born citizen by birthright. Do you think the birthers are going to damage the Republican party any more than they are now? Should Republicans disown the birthers?
barack obama hates this
20
Mar
There is a question here on Answers that reads… 5 important reasons why John Mc Cain is to be preferred as President?…and numerous people stated that Obama hates whites. Um…why would they say that? There’s this school of thought that someone who cheats always suspects their partner of cheating, because they project their actions. Is this the case with these people calling racist! on someone who’s not? Or am I missing something completely?