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It certainly won't be "Hope" and "Change," won't be "Yes We Can," and it won't be "Change You Can Believe In."
It'll probably be "No We Couldn't Because of the Republicans."
Obama will be running against a substantially weaker opponent than in 2008.
Obama will be running against a substantially weaker opponent than in 2008.
Whoever said this needs to talk to their dealer about the brand of pot they are smoking. It might actually be hash.
There is no way Obama lucks out and gets milquetoast MCain and dumbass Palin this time around.
In fact, with a good VP pick, the GOP is going to do a good job at putting the odds of victory well over 50%.
President Barack Hussein Obama will have an easy time being re-elected. All he has to do is remain focused and not be thrown off by any bullshit negativity thrown at him via FauxNooz and their likes. In times past the republicans have put up good candidates. Even in 2008 I felt like McCain was a better candidate than he was in 2000 until he selected his running mate. That sealed his ultimate demise right there and time and additional activities have proven the majority was correct.
The Prez has indicated a run on the Teddy Roosevelt progressive populist platform. That is genius, IMHO. But he will win whether he uses that theory or another. The pubs just don't have anything to compete this time around.
Psychoblues
This is a very good question and I'm glad you asked.Any thoughts?
President Barack Hussein Obama will have an easy time being re-elected. All he has to do is remain focused and not be thrown off by any bullshit negativity thrown at him via FauxNooz and their likes. In times past the republicans have put up good candidates. Even in 2008 I felt like McCain was a better candidate than he was in 2000 until he selected his running mate. That sealed his ultimate demise right there and time and additional activities have proven the majority was correct.
The Prez has indicated a run on the Teddy Roosevelt progressive populist platform. That is genius, IMHO. But he will win whether he uses that theory or another. The pubs just don't have anything to compete this time around.
Psychoblues
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This is a very good question and I'm glad you asked.Any thoughts?
By the time Bill Clinton left Office I had reached the point that I couldn't stand to look at him and the mere sound of his voice made my blood pressure rise. While I have not reached that point with Obama I am at the stage where I can anticipate it becoming that way.
Obama's campaign rhetoric focused on the concept of "change" in a manner which empathized with Progressive anger at what Bush had done to this Nation. His stern visage, upturned gaze and almost vengeful tone at times promised a clean sweep and a wrathful banishment of Bush and all he stood for. Then there was this
and while I didn't want to pronounce the thought even to myself there was the quiet impression that Mr. "hope" was little more than a talented bullshit artist who had scored the brass ring. Softening the disappointment, Obama was likeable and intelligent whereas Bush was acerbic, arrogant and embarrassingly stupid. But all of the implicit and explicitly promised hope for "change" quickly evaporated.
Bill Clinton turned out to be a degenerate, self-serving fake. But giving him credit where it's due his first official action was to sweep the White House clean of the remnants of Reagan/Bush by firing every lawyer and aide who assisted those two scoundrels to commence the decline of the middle class. But not only did Obama leave the regime of Bush's criminal conspirators intact, he placed two of the Wall Street villains who helped bring the economy down in positions of absolute power over it.
Back in the late 80s, federal judge Robert W. Sweet said Americans will know they have an honest President when he advocates the end of marijuana prohibition. Everything Candidate Obama ever said on the subject of marijuana clearly implied a favorable attitude toward intelligent and rational review of the counterproductive prohibition of this relatively benign natural substance. During one televised interview when asked if he'd ever used marijuana, Obama unhesitatingly admitted that he had and emphasized it with the word, "frequently."
That carefully conveyed impression encouraged the support and secured the votes of millions of pro-legalization advocates. But when newly-elected President Obama held his first Town Hall meeting, during which he promised to answer prominent questions, after admitting that the most prominent of the questions submitted had to do with the marijuana issue he not only refused to address the questions or to even discuss the issue he dismissed it rather contemptuously and went on to other matters.
Since that time Obama has routinely reneged on a number of promises, both implied and explicit. Most recently, while he had promised to veto the Indefinite Detention bill now on the floor, which will effectively establish the precedent of ignoring Due Process and Habeas Corpus, he has withdrawn that promise. And for me this is the final straw.
Today I mailed a letter to the DNC informing them that if they do not put up an alternative candidate I am not the only registered Democrat who either will not vote or will write in a preferred candidate.
My preference would be Congressman Dennis Kucinich or Senator Bernie Sanders.
Whatever platform Obama runs on he has earned a well-deserved reputation as a bullshit artist whose word means nothing.President Barack Hussein Obama will have an easy time being re-elected. All he has to do is remain focused and not be thrown off by any bullshit negativity thrown at him via FauxNooz and their likes. In times past the republicans have put up good candidates. Even in 2008 I felt like McCain was a better candidate than he was in 2000 until he selected his running mate. That sealed his ultimate demise right there and time and additional activities have proven the majority was correct.
The Prez has indicated a run on the Teddy Roosevelt progressive populist platform. That is genius, IMHO. But he will win whether he uses that theory or another. The pubs just don't have anything to compete this time around.
Psychoblues
Any thoughts?
He might have less money, but he'll still have plenty of money. He'll probably opt out of public financing again.
Obama will have a narrower path to victory. Some states he won in 2008 will probably be functionally ceded early on.
Obama will be running as the incumbent. He will attempt to identify himself with the office.
Obama will be running against a substantially weaker opponent than in 2008.
Obama will run a more negative campaign. When he ran against McCain, he was almost never behind (the exception being a brief period after Palin was chosen) and so never needed to take the risk of strongly criticizing his opponent. Any candidate the Republicans can nominate will also have more vulnerabilities than McCain did.
Obama will have to explain why the economy is as bad as it is despite his economic policies. He will have to argue some combination of:
1) The economy is not as bad as my opponent says
2) My policies (bailing out auto companies, stimulus, payroll tax break, etc.) helped
3) Policies my opponent supported (refusing to restore taxes on millionaires, extraordinary debt ceiling brinksmanship, extreme anti-union policies) hurt
4) Going forward, my policies will be better (or at least sound better) than my opponent's
Obama will be able to describe himself as tested and experienced.
Obama will have to defend the ACA, emphasizing the popular aspects of the bill.
Obama will have to emphasize his foreign policy accomplishments (bin Laden, no major 9/11 style attacks, liberated Libya w/o entanglement or US casualties, wound down Iraq, created cohesive Afghanistan policy)
To clarify, the arguments above are ones I think Obama's campaign should make in order to try to win the campaign, irrespective of how defensible they are on the facts.
Whatever platform Obama runs on he has earned a well-deserved reputation as a bullshit artist whose word means nothing.President Barack Hussein Obama will have an easy time being re-elected. All he has to do is remain focused and not be thrown off by any bullshit negativity thrown at him via FauxNooz and their likes. In times past the republicans have put up good candidates. Even in 2008 I felt like McCain was a better candidate than he was in 2000 until he selected his running mate. That sealed his ultimate demise right there and time and additional activities have proven the majority was correct.
The Prez has indicated a run on the Teddy Roosevelt progressive populist platform. That is genius, IMHO. But he will win whether he uses that theory or another. The pubs just don't have anything to compete this time around.
Psychoblues
I am a registered Democrat who voted for Obama in '08. I will not vote for him again because he is as phony as a Times Square hustler with ten fake Rolex watches up his sleeve.